World champion Anna Shcherbakova earned gold in the women's figure skating competition at Beijing 2022, as a series of errors saw 15-year-old Kamila Valieva miss out on a podium after a week of controversy following her positive drug test.

my hands.”The ramifications from the event and the Valieva case will go on, with a conclusion to her doping

committed an offence will be determined in the month's ahead, along with the outcome of World Anti-Doping

Agency and Russian Anti-Doping Agency investigations into her entourage.

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has confirmed that the Africa Championships will take place in Johannesburg in April.

Africa, IMMAF has become the only MMA governing body to be awarded signatory status by the World Anti-Doping

figure skaters in place of their medals for now, as they await the result of Kamila Valieva ongoing doping

 Kamila Valieva's anti-doping violation case is delaying the Medal Ceremony in the figure skating

eight-day gap between the team event and the start of the women's, in which the details of her anti-doping

were made public.Provisional suspensions are typically implemented when an investigation into an anti-doping

Triple cyclo-cross world medallist Toon Aerts has vowed to clear his name after testing positive for a metabolite of letrozole, a banned substance usually used to treat breast cancer.

UCI) confirmed the positive test, but as letrozole appears as a specified substance on the World Anti-Doping

who was taking letrozole - was banned for 10 months.In 2020, boxer Virginia Fuchs was cleared of a doping

offence when the United States Anti-Doping Agency accepted that a positive test for metabolites of letrozole

Ukrainian cross-country skier Valentyna Kaminska has become the second athlete to return a positive doping

The International Testing Agency (ITA), overseeing the anti-doping programme for the Games on behalf

tested positive for an anabolic androgenic steroid and two stimulants which featured on the World Anti-Doping

feature.The 34-year-old has the right to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) Anti-Doping

confirmed the presence of the substance in Saveh Shemshaki's B-sample, with the ITA asserting an anti-doping

violation.He has not challenged the provisional suspension, but asked for the case to be referred to CAS' Anti-Doping

The results of the women’s singles figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics here will be provisional should Kamila Valieva finish in the top three, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.

squad in the team event on February 7, but the medal ceremony is yet to take place due to her ongoing doping

Russian Figure Skating Championships in Saint Petersburg before it was analysed by at the World Anti-Doping

substance trimetazidine, leading to her provisional suspension which was then lifted by the Russian Anti-Doping

International Olympic Committee (IOC) has claimed there is not a "great deal of similarity" between the anti-doping

associated as performance-enhancing.Richardson was given a one-month ban by the United States Anti-Doping

Valieva was able to compete yesterday in the women's short programme, despite having recorded a positive doping

compete under protest at the US Olympic Trials while being investigated for "tampering with the anti-doping

the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ©Getty ImagesA provisional suspension is typically in place when a doping

is ongoing prior to a verdict, however, the provisional suspension put in place by the Russian Anti-Doping

Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, who last year set a world indoor 1500 metres record will return tomorrow chasing the world mile mark in a programme featuring Tokyo 2020 gold medallists Selemon Barega, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Katie Nageotte.

outlets.But he brushed off the media misgivings, adding: "After a certain point, continuing to talk about it [doping

highest score in the women’s short programme event one day after being cleared to compete amid an ongoing doping

provisional suspension was reinstated.The provisional suspension was initially lifted by the Russian Anti-Doping

skaters are all coached by Eteri Tutberidze, who will come under the spotlight with the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) poised to investigate Valieva’s entourage following her

Not being in Beijing, I have taken the view, until now, that I should leave commentary pertaining to Kamila Valieva to colleagues who are.

I have said it before, but it cannot be stated enough: doping is the greyest and murkiest of grey areas.And

wealthy or well-connected enough to afford the best legal representation continues to grow, the anti-doping

Polemics relating to individual doping cases are invariably worst during events, like the Olympics, which

Does the World Anti-Doping Code need clarifying?

Code is “silent with respect to provisional suspension imposed on protected persons”.The World Anti-Doping

She's not competing until 9:52pm local time and yet I am already boarding a bus to the Capital Indoor Stadium before 6pm for the women's singles skating short programme.

International Testing Agency - on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Anti-Doping

trimetazidine and a decision is still to be made over whether she will serve a suspension for the anti-doping

February 7 - the following day the WADA-accredited laboratory in Stockholm notified the Russian Anti-Doping

from a young woman with the world against her or at the very least, a victim of being a minor in a doping

I have seen tonight, to then see misinformation spread about the case and comparing it to unrelated doping

Kamila Valieva’s positive drugs test has been blamed on contamination with her grandfather’s heart medication, according to an International Olympic Committee (IOC) official.

last week by the International Testing Agency.A provisional suspension was lifted by the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency (RUSADA) Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee on February 9, the day after the sample had been

The doping of children is evil and unforgivable, and the doctors, coaches and other support personnel

to the CAS, meaning there could be a long wait for the medals ceremonies in both events.World Anti-Doping

The doping of children is evil and unforgivable, and the doctors, coaches and other support personnel

Oswald has claimed no connection has been established between the Kamila Valieva case and Russian state doping

“It is not established that there is a relation between this single case and the doping state of 2014

“Do you have a country in the world where there is no single case of doping?

group, claimed yesterday that Valieva would not have been placed in this position had "the World Anti-Doping

athletes who could prove they were not involved in the system or had anything to do with the state doping

and Beijing 2022 as the ROC, following a two-year package of sanctions introduced by the World Anti-Doping

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) says it will consider a “full-fledged investigation” to discover how figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine.

years old, as well as "serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the athletes’ anti-doping

paid special attention to the issue of meeting the deadlines for testing samples at the Stockholm Anti-Doping

full-fledged objective investigation to establish all the circumstances of the situation with a positive doping

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have both confirmed their intention

No medal ceremony will be held in the figure skating team event or women's individual competition - should Kamila Valieva earn a podium finish - with a decision still to be reached on whether the 15-year-old figure skater will be sanctioned for a positive drug test.

Valieva to compete in the women's individual event tomorrow, but a full decision on whether an anti-doping

rule violation has been committed remains in the hands of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).An

would include an athlete who on the one hand has a positive A-sample, but whose violation of the anti-doping