The International Swimming Federation (FINA) is expected to ratify sweeping reforms to the organisation - including the introduction of an independent integrity unit - when it stages its Extraordinary General Congress here in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

that raised concerns over FINA's integrity and independence, possible conflicts of interest in anti-doping

International Federations such as World Athletics.The AIU would run the rule over areas including anti-doping

running of the worldwide governing body for aquatics ©Getty ImagesFINA has also been urged to ditch its Doping

Division to adjudicate on anti-doping rule violations.The Reform Committee claims this would address

possible allegations of a conflict of interest with the Doping Panel, whose members are appointed by

Three sports which have been part of the Olympic Movement for more than a century may well find themselves excluded from Los Angeles 2028.

Environmental impact and doping violations were also scrutinised.In Tokyo, in execs of 11,000 competitors

Akbar Djuraev made all six lifts as he won the battle of the big three in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in his home country today.

total set three years ago.Nurudinov, 30, was unable to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games because of a doping

Hong Kong’s Siobhán Haughey stole the headlines on the opening day International Swimming Federation World Swimming Championships (25m) after breaking the women’s 200 metres freestyle world record here in Abu Dhabi.

Russian athletes are competing as the RSF in Abu Dhabi, as part of sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping

Super League Triathlon (SLT) co-founder Leonid Boguslavsky has underlined the importance of strengthening links with World Triathlon, arguing it is "good for sport and for the athletes".

Prize money would be the same for men and women, that we will have doping check from the officially appointed

Germany's Claudia Pechstein is set to appear at an eighth Olympic Games, with the 49-year-old making the mass start standard for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the latest International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup leg in Calgary.

Beijing 2022 concludes ©Getty ImagesPechstein was unable to compete at Vancouver 2010 due to a two-year doping

reticulocytes in her blood, following athlete biological passport analysis.Pechstein has always denied doping

Athletes hoping to represent Papua New Guinea at major multi-sport events including next year’s Commonwealth Games and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will need to be vaccinated against coronavirus, it has been confirmed.

Courier reports that the new PNGOC policy also requires team officials to undergo training in anti-doping

Amely Moras has been appointed as the first female chair of World Taekwondo's Referee Committee.

Committee chair.South Korean Dae Hyoun Jeong has been reappointed as chair of the Medical and Anti-Doping

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov says it has contacted the International Ski Federation (FIS) and International Skating Union (ISU) after athletes from the nation were unable to take part in Beijing 2022 qualifiers in the United States.

qualify for the Games must compete under a neutral flagd due to sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping

upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).WADA initially handed Russia a four-year ban after doping

When I was at junior school I took part in a little play written by a classmate. It was entitled "Who Will Be My Gardener?" I thought it very poor and determined to re-shape the work in performance by means of sotto voce directions to my fellow actors.

however, that CAS - which has dealt most prominently with cases relating to individual or orchestrated doping

Russia has been punished by World Triathlon for "the significant number of doping cases in Russia", it

compensate and refund the prize monies previously awarded to the Russian triathletes sanctioned with doping

World Triathlon Executive Board include ordering the RTF to reach an agreement with the Russian Anti-Doping

the Olympic and Paralympic Games and World Championships after being found guilty by the World Anti-Doping

Agency of operating a state-sponsored doping programme.

 "World Triathlon is fully committed with the fight against any form of doping in the sport," the

Bernard Amsalem, the second vice-president of the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM), ensured delegates that preparations for Oran 2022 in Algeria are on track and that the city will host the event "in the best way".

the smooth running of the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran and cause delays in the selection of the doping

Karlos Nasar underlined his claim to be the best teenage weightlifter in decades when he claimed a senior world record held by one of the sport’s biggest names, Lu Xiaojun, in a remarkable session in Tashkent in Uzbekistan today.

Given Bulgaria’s desperate doping record in decades past – four times banned or sent home from the Olympic

were being asked by doubters on social media.Majed, speaking to insidethegames while Nasar was with doping

European title in Moscow in April – "and we’re not talking national agency, we’re talking WADA (World Anti-Doping

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has held a seminar designed to empower athletes at the Lahore Garrison University.

session2 pic.twitter.com/qe14zrCex4— Pakistan Olympic Association (@NOCPakistan) December 11, 2021Anti-doping

World 200 metres champion Noah Lyles has spoken about why he decided to "break a stigma" last year in announcing he was on anti-depressants – and how lockdown and social and political issues in the United States contributed to his distress.

shortly before taking part in a TrueSport discussion on mental health organised by the United States Anti-Doping