Ukrainian National Paralympic Committee President Valeriy Sushkevych gave a striking comment on the importance of the nation being present at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics this week.

would be the alternative Paralympic Games arranged following their Rio 2016 ban for state sponsored doping

victims of the International Paralympic Committee decision rather than having been impacted by the doping

Three National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) have been removed from the compliance watchlist by the

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

against the NADOs last April, due to their failure to implement the 2021 version of the World Anti-Doping

the 2021 Code within their legal systems.The WADA has confirmed non-conformities with the World Anti-Doping

NADOs from the watchlist in January, with issues having related to implementation of the World Anti-Doping

Code and NADOs' anti-doping programmes.Indonesia and Thailand were removed from the watchlist last month.Just

Double Olympic gold medallist Brittney Griner has been arrested in Moscow on drugs charges, USA Basketball has confirmed.

winning the Russian Championship in every season ©Getty ImagesIn 2016, Griner's confidential World Anti-Doping

Double Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion Edwin Moses, chairman of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, has called for Russian athletes to be banned from the Paris 2024 Olympics in the wake of the war being waged in Ukraine.

be banned from the Paris 2024 Games ©Getty ImagesMoses, the Emeritus chair of the United States Anti-Doping

have been banned from sport much earlier, even before the Ukraine invasion, because of their sports doping

because of what happened in Sochi in 2014 for really corrupting the integrity of the Olympic Games, via doping

I was on the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and I thought the penalties were too

Grégory Baugé, France’s multiple world and Olympic sprint cycling medallist, has been appointed national sprint coach heading into the Paris 2024 Olympics.

sprint title, but it passed to Kenny after the Frenchman’s 2011 results were nullified for missing doping

Several International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and experts have been appointed to 15 new committees established by the International Teqball Federation (FITEQ).

develop teqball and Para teqball globally.The Ethics and Disciplinary Committee and the Medical and Anti-Doping

Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang, currently banned until June 2024, has lost his final appeal against a doping

costs of CHF15,000 ($16,300/£12375).CAS banned Sun in June last year for refusing to give a sample to doping

use a hammer to smash the casing of a blood vial so it would not be valid for testing.The World Anti-Doping

the 2022 Asian Games in his home city of Hangzhou.Sun, banned for three months in 2014 for a separate doping

The United World Wrestling (UWW) has barred wrestlers from representing Russia and Belarus on the international stage and announced the cancellation of all events due to be held in the two nations this year.

stage this year’s World Wrestling Championships only for it to be moved to Serbia because of World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) sanctions imposed over the cover-up of a state-sponsored doping programme.Under the WADA

A breakaway competition for Russian and Belarusian athletes is set to take place at Sochi 2014 venues after the two countries were expelled from the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games over the invasion of Ukraine.

further tarnish the legacy of an Olympic and Paralympic Games later overshadowed by a state-sponsored doping

Agency (ITA) has suspended Russian wrestlers Daria Leksina, Aleksey Shchekov and Elena Vostrikova for doping

the possession of Russian state authorities between 2015 and 2019.Investigators for the World Anti-Doping

Agency have provided evidence from the database of alleged doping to sports governing bodies and the

 Bilyal Makhov's doping ban backdated to January 2020 ©Getty ImagesInstead, their accomplishments

medals at the World Championships.Last year, Russian wrestler Bilyal Makhov received a four-year ban for doping

Canada has announced its withdrawal from the 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games in Chengdu over safety concerns.

the Beijing 2022 Olympics ©Getty ImagesOther key topics of the three-session meeting were sports and doping

The third edition of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) Symposium

Both the Indian National Anti-Doping Agency and the National Dope Testing Laboratory will be helping

to organise the event.Anti-doping stakeholders that are involved in ABP programmes include testing, administration

practice and exchange of knowledge gained from ABP.Representatives from national and regional anti-doping

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) has announced its delegation will leave Beijing due to being “unable” to appeal the exclusion of the country’s athletes from the Winter Paralympics.

already competing neutrally under the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport following the nation's doping

not to allow athletes from the nation to participate at Rio 2016 in response to the state sponsored doping

Dmitry Klokov is one of six Russian weightlifters who have been charged with historic doping offences

reply to a request for comment from insidethegames.This is the first time Klokov has been charged with doping

2013, methenolone in 2015, and is now charged - as are all six - under Article 2.2 of the IWF Anti-Doping

samples showed traces of turinabol ©Getty ImagesThe charges relate to two investigations - into systemic doping

professor Richard McLaren, and into data from the Moscow Laboratory, carried out by the World Anti-Doping

2019 to 2035, by when he will be 49.The McLaren and WADA investigations have led to a slew of historic doping

Numerous International Federations (IFs) have confirmed bans on athletes from Russia and Belarus following International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommendations to prohibit participation in the wake of the war in Ukraine.

Triathlon, who had already suspended the Russian Triathlon Federation for a year due to its high number of doping

the 2027 and 2031 Rugby World Cups scuppered by two-year sanctions, imposed due to the long-running doping