The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has stripped Russia of this year's Volleyball Men’s World Championship following the invasion of Ukraine.

IOC has recommended.The build-up to the World Championship has been controversial as the World Anti-Doping

period covering August and September 2022.This was as part of sanctions imposed against the Russian Anti-doping

Russia has been stripped of the 2023 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championship in light of the invasion of Ukraine, and its national teams and clubs suspended from all IIHF competitions "until further notice".

- where the Russian team was due to compete under the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) banner due to doping

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has revealed plans to take 756 doping samples at the 2022

Friday (February 25) following the opening of the Paralympic Villages.Planning has been based on "anti-doping

intelligence" and the anti-doping programme is to be targeted at "specific high-risk groups of athletes

", according to the IPC.Blood and urine samples are to be analysed by a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA

facility for 10 years.Tokyo 2020 was the first time that the IPC managed its own anti-doping programme

for a Paralympic Games, having formed an anti-doping department in 2018.A total of 2,174 samples were

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has advised that athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus should be banned from all international sporting events.

banner because of sanctions imposed on the country in response to the cover-up of a state-sponsored doping

the Beijing 2022 Paralympics ©Getty ImagesSochi 2014 has come to be overshadowed by a state-sponsored doping

Sambo events will not take place in Russia "indefinitely", the world governing body of a sport whose origins are rooted indelibly in the country, announced tonight.

All-Russian Sambo Federation at last year's World Championships due to sanctions applied by the World Anti-Doping

Agency after being found guilty of state-sponsored doping.

The Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the International Biathlon Union's (IBU) decision to require its athletes to compete as neutrals at competitions in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

ImagesThe RBU was relegated to provisional membership of the IBU in December 2017 following he Russian doping

will not be eligible to become a full member again until at least December 2022, with the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency being declared compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code as one of the criteria.Russia's attack

The Norwegian Skating Federation (NSF), which is set to host the International Skating Union (ISU) World Speed Skating Championships next month, has followed the country's National Olympic Committee in declaring that Russian and Belarusian athletes should be banned from the event.

schedule.Russian athletes would already be banned from competing under the country's name or flag because of anti-doping

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has stripped Russia of hosting two rounds of Volleyball Nations League (VNL) matches in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

Championship is scheduled to be held in 10 Russian cities from August 26 to September 11.The World Anti-Doping

major events, such as the World Championships, as part of sanctions imposed against the Russian Anti-Doping

Often a movie will start with a scene involving magic, something exaggerated to the point of comedy or an act that is highly unrealistic. 

role in convincing some who, stripped down the basic facts, would never support an Olympic bid, into doping

Figure skater Kamila Valieva has been awarded the Order of Friendship by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Winter Olympics, but an asterisk remains alongside this result as the 15-year-old became embroiled in a doping

contained the banned substance trimetazidine, although it was only reported as positive by a World Anti-Doping

fourth, and the ROC could be stripped of its team gold should Valieva be found to have committed an anti-doping

Ukrainian sporting legend Sergey Bubka has hailed the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance over the Russian invasion of his native country.

noted: "The Russian Athletics Federation has been suspended from World Athletics since 2015, due to doping

of a tweet by Witold Bańka, Poland’s former 400 metres runner who is now President of the World Anti-Doping

Applications have opened for roles within the International Swimming Federation's (FINA) new Aquatics Integrity Unit.

appointed for each of the Aquatics Integrity Unit's adjudicatory body, investigatory body and anti-doping

Integrity Unit, which proponents say will be independent and more effective than the existing FINA Doping

Sergei Iljukov has resigned from the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Supervisory Board to protest

was serving as an independent member of the Supervisory Board on the recommendation of the World Anti-Doping

non-compliant by WADA, and WADA sanctions imposed on it in response to the cover-up of a state-sponsored doping

War actions in Ukraine. 2/— Sergei Iljukov (@iljukov) February 25, 2022Iljukov has worked in the anti-doping

European Medical Centre, complete the RUSADA Supervisory Board.Having been subject to sanctions related to doping

Alexander Chernov, a central figure in the organisation of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) 2023 Summer World University Games in Yekaterinburg, has expressed hope the city will still be allowed to stage it.

further headache.FISU's former President, Oleg Matytsin, who stepped aside for the duration on World Anti-Doping

Agency sanctions imposed on the nation in response to the cover-up of a state-sponsored doping programme

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has told International Federations (IFs) to move any events scheduled to take place in Russia or Belarus out of the countries in its strongest condemnation yet of their attack on Ukraine.

major events such as the Olympics, Paralympics and any World Championship organised by a World Anti-Doping

Code signatory as part of sanctions imposed over the cover-up of a state-sponsored doping programme.This

had called on all of its members to show solidarity with Ukraine ©Getty ImagesThe current World Anti-Doping