Football Association of Slovenia (NZS) President Aleksander Čeferin has officially entered the race for the UEFA Presidency and immediately called for reforms to be implemented similar to those which have come into force within FIFA.

Sports Minister and FIFA Council member Vitaly Mutko, who also heads the Russian Football Union, told TASS

situation with the UEFA Presidential Election and whose candidacy should be supported," Mutko told TASS

, we cannot say that UEFA is not a good organisation and that it needs a complete change," he told TASS

Russian weightlifters Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina are each set to be stripped of medals won at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games after their B-samples also tested positive following re-analysis,

This was confirmed by the duos coach Vladimir Shainov today, who told the TASS news agency that each

Two of the Russian athletes who tested positive after re-analysis of their Beijing 2008 doping results have produced negative B-samples, it has been announced.

the most high-profile athlete implicated who followed Beijing bronze with London gold.She told the TASS

Tunisia’s Habiba Ghribi has officially been presented with the Olympic and world 3,000 metres steeplechase gold medals stripped from Russian doping cheat Yuliya Zaripova.

considered them to have been treated too leniently by RUSADA.Zaripova has now told Russian news agency TASS

Riot police were sent in to stop a fight after wrestler Viktor Lebedev beat Ismail Musukayev in a contest to decide who will represent Russia at Rio 2016.

boycotted the competition in protest and were handed a technical defeat.Musukayev told Russian news agency TASS

Maria Sharapova has been named in a four-strong Russian squad for the Rio 2016 Olympic women's singles today despite being currently suspended from participating due to her meldonium doping failure.

According to the TASS news agency, the Russian Tennis Federation have named Sharapova, Svetlana

Trump Tower or the New York City Mayor's Office are considered among likely locatons for September's World Championship, according to International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

Championship contender ©Getty Images"At present, we are looking for a venue," Ilyumzhinov told the TASS

Russia could lose nine medals won at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games after 14 athletes from the country reportedly tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.

 But Russian state television and the TASS news agency have now published a list of athletes they

sample from the Beijing Olympics tested positive after a re-check and she called me," the coach told TASS

I was talking to someone at a New York radio station this week on the broad subject of cheating in sport, and specifically “mechanical doping” in cycling, which was confirmed for the first time in competition earlier this year and resulted last month in the six-year suspension of a Belgian cyclo-cross rider.

“We are puzzled that U.S. justice decided to probe Russia,” he told the Russian news agency TASS.

Russia appears poised to forfeit two Rio 2016 Olympic quota places after four weightlifters, including world champion Alexey Lovchev, were all reportedly handed four or eight-year doping suspensions.

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), with final decisions yet to be published.But Lovchev told the TASS

I disagree with the IWF disqualification," the 26-year-old added to TASS."

A final verdict on Russian tennis superstar Maria Sharapova is not expected until next month following her positive drugs test for meldonium.

Sharapova’s situation is complicated," he told the TASS news agency."

Allowing legal action to be taken against those guilty of coercing Russian athletes into doping has been included among a proposed amendment to the country's Criminal Code by a St. Petersburg Senator.

legal service of the Sports Ministry makes a conclusion," Mutko told Russia's official news agency TASS

Russian boxing star Alexander Povetkin has shown traces of meldonium in a doping sample and faces being forced to pull out of his World Boxing Council (WBC) title fight with American rival Deontay Wilder next week.

returned "low concentrations" of the substance in a blood sample in April, a spokesperson told the TASS

He consumed it [meldonium] in September last year," he told TASS.

A backlash is growing against Russia today following the latest wave of allegations of widespread doping surrounding the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. 

be dissatisfied with his current position or have unrealised creative ambitions," Nagornykh told the TASS

Russian doping chief turned whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov has offered to work alongside the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in order to prove his sensational claims of systemic illegal drug use by home athletes during Sochi 2014.

baton is passed from one foreign media source to another one," Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told the TASS