France have been retrospectively disqualified from the men's 4x400 metres relay event at the 2017 World Championships in London after Teddy Atine-Venel tested positive for a banned substance.

, typically used to treat asthma.Atine-Venel has been sanctioned for the offence by the French Anti-Doping

eighth in the 4x400m relay.They have now been stripped of that result following confirmation of the doping

Sport is faced with "many threats" and has to be credible “both on and off the field" if it is to survive, Francesco Ricci Bitti, President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Sports Federations (ASOIF), has warned.

It means governance and special focus on activities like anti-doping, anti-manipulation, technology innovation

financial or political backing.In November 2015 an independent enquiry instigated by the World Anti-Doping

Agency reported widespread doping and large-scale cover-ups by Russian authorities, and the then International

was sentenced to jail for four years, two of them suspended, for his part in covering up the Russian doping

stands on the brink of Olympic expulsion starting with the Paris 2024 Games in the wake of a slew of doping

Double Olympic medallist and two-time world champion Kjetil Borch has criticised World Rowing after revealing he was stripped of a gold medal from a major event for holding a can of Red Bull on the podium.

rules.In a wide-ranging post on Instagram - which also included the Norwegian raising questions about anti-doping

includes meditation, but was told he could be given a missed test if he did not report to the anti-doping

in-competition testing within 60 minutes after notification.Borch added that he phoned the Norwegian Anti-Doping

Agency, who told him the Croatian anti-doping personnel "had no right in threatening me, and that I

was "uncooperative" and it had not found any misconduct from the testers.All of World Rowing's anti-doping

The Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts (GAMMA) has introduced an anti-doping education programme

the International Testing Agency (ITA) to deliver an educational seminar on drugs in sport and anti-doping

 The ITA, an independent anti-doping organisation, has partnered with the GAMMA since 2020 but delivered

athletes, the prohibited lists of drugs that must be avoided, including Therapeutic Use Exemptions, the doping

ITA education manager Olya Abasolo told the athletes present: "Anti-doping education may not be the most

, the role of the different anti-doping organisations and your rights as athletes."

Germany's Thomas Konietzko has been elected International Canoe Federation President at the organisation’s Congress today in Rome, after a dominant victory over rival Evgenii Arkhipov in a vote.

Polo bodies.Tim Brabants, who works for Canoe Racing New Zealand, will chair the ICF Medical and Anti-Doping

Han Zheng, vice-premier of China’s State Council, has stressed the importance of strict implementation of COVID-19 measures around the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We must do a good job of preparing for the Winter Olympics and do anti-doping work with a zero tolerance

Significant legal costs have not prevented the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) from reporting a sizeable

million/€32.8 million) in 2019.The body said that legal costs concerning a number of "high-profile anti-doping

cases" including "the cases of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) and Chinese Swimmer, Sun Yang

Russia's Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has revealed that a total of 599 athletes across 13 sports have provisionally been shortlisted to represent the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

been banned from World Championship and Olympic events for two years from December 2020.The World Anti-Doping

Agency declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) non-compliant in December 2019 and initially

Controversial plans to change the bodyweight categories in weightlifting met strong opposition from the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) Athletes' Commission and have been dropped.

Reiko added: "The Tokyo qualification system was successful in terms of anti-doping."

However, if we change categories it looks as if the IWF is changing because of doping - it is wrong."

The Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts' (GAMMA) European Championships are set to begin at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv's Palace of Sports, featuring athletes from 15 countries expected and new initiatives including random hydrated weight testing.

undergoing major changes in weight to compete in a particular division.It also plans to conduct an anti-doping

athletes and support staff, highlighting their rights and responsibilities, the risks associated with doping

sport in terms of athlete safety and well-being, which includes initiatives such as the seminar on anti-doping

Ursula Papandrea has been nominated by USA Weightlifting (USAW) to stand for International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President.

Commission.She also signed the first agreement between the IWF and the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Anti-Doping

Anti-Doping Agency and United States Olympic and Paralympic Athletes Advisory Council, while she has

since the disgraced Aján, who in June 2021 was charged with complicity and tampering with multiple anti-doping

Caleb Plant may sound like the bad guy in a Spaghetti Western, but when he kicks open the swing doors of the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas this weekend, it is possible he will become the man who shot boxing’s Liberty Valance. Or maybe not.

Liverpool’s Callum Smith both took him the distance.Canellos greatness, then, has to be weighed against the doping

The International Sambo Federation (FIAS) has released a promotional video for the World Sambo Championships, which are set to begin in Tashkent later this month.

across the three days will be shown on FIAS' website.The Championships were moved from Moscow due to doping

Most of us eye roll at the "keep politics out of sport" line thrown around by some whenever political expression is suggested in any form at a competition - it completely ignores the origins of sport, its clubs and its communities to blanket ban anything remotely political.

Just to clarify, this was part of Russia's punishment for systemic doping and it was still not enough

The Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) signalled their intentions at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals by sweeping aside Canada to knock out the North American side at the event in Prague.

neutral team competing at the event under the terms of the sanctions imposed on Russia linked to the doping