"Green" issues are front and centre this week courtesy of COP26, so let’s take a look at how the Olympic Movement is doing and, in particular, how it could do better in the environmental protection/sustainability space.

would be for sports decision-makers to draft, and then enforce, a "Green" Code, akin to the World Anti-Doping

Twitter this morning features a video clip showing Chelsea’s French international midfielder N’Golo Kanté methodically taking up and collecting training poles at the end of a session.

small - some huge, testing, demanding.Last week I spoke to Gunter Younger, director of the World Anti-Doping

"So they come, they have done an anti-doping rule violation and they would like to have a substantial

Vitaly Stepanov turned whistleblowers when they helped WADA during their investigation into Russian doping

Let’s say one is not happy with the team - they think that someone in the team is doping, so they pursue

The first ones I worked with were Yulia and Vitaly Stepanov in connection with the Russian doping report

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has urged Member Federations to submit nominations for the forthcoming Athletes' Commission elections due to take place during the IWF World Weightlifting Championships between December 7 and 17.

aired on German television which made serious allegations of financial malpractice and breaches of anti-doping

procedures.In June 2021, he was charged with complicity and tampering with multiple anti-doping rule

Former United States Department of State official Ryan Murphy has been appointed as the new executive director of the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC).

Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), having been a programme office for the Sports Diplomacy Division at the U.S

Department of State since 2009.He had combined that role for several years working as an anti-doping

officer for International Doping Tests & Management, the global leader in drugs testing.The Colorado

From his work at the Department of State to his efforts as a Doping Control Officer, you can look at

©PCC"Research paves the way for all of the best practices in anti-doping," said Dr.

been bringing his forensic skills to bear for the last five years in the service of the World Anti-Doping

2015 to the three-person Independent Commission that, on WADA’s behalf, eventually exposed widespread doping

audit, conducted by independent supervisor Jacques Antenen, argued that "for the credibility of anti-doping

Agency (USADA) investigation had "exhausted all reasonable avenues" in establishing anti-doping rule

Code.Meanwhile new strategies for allowing those who offer confidential information uncovering doping

He was referring to the mechanism whereby athletes who have committed an anti-doping rule violation (

New strategies for allowing those who offer confidential information uncovering doping abuses to remain

anonymous are being actively explored by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

methods for safeguarding the identity of those who offer confidential information in the fight against doping

He was referring to the mechanism whereby athletes who have committed an anti-doping rule violation (

regarding them from outside agencies.He cites the major case involving the orchestrated and widespread doping

Jeffrey Brown for misconduct at the Nike Oregon Project, himself charged with having committed an anti-doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has added three National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) to the

Community of Belgium, Montenegro and Romania for failing to implement the 2021 version of the World Anti-Doping

they had still not resolved their issues.However, the trio have now provided revisions of their anti-doping

his deputy, Yaroslav Kruchek.The latest details on the sanctions imposed by WADA on the Russian Anti-Doping

Sports lawyer Kevin Carpenter has been appointed as the International Table Tennis Federation's (ITTF) first head of integrity.

Carpenter will lead the ITTF's Integrity Unit, established this year to adjudicate on issues including anti-doping

Lacrosse is at a critical juncture in the history of our sport. World Lacrosse's ambitions are bold and our vision is clear: for the sport to be recognised and played by all countries worldwide, and to be contested on the Olympic stage once again.

examples of that engagement include WL chief executive Jim Scherr becoming a member of the World Anti-Doping

World Triathlon has imposed a three-year ban on Russian triathlete Alexander Bryukhankov for the presence of endurance-enhancing drug erythropoietin (EPO) in a urine sample he returned during an in-competition test.

June 19.On September 15, World Triathlon notified Bryukhanov that it was charging him with an anti-doping

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Convention against Doping

Diaz is a former Presidential candidate for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and had chaired the seventh

the COP8 Bureau, and he vowed to continue working through the UNESCO International Convention against Doping

in Sport to combat doping."

Russia adheres to the principles of clean and fair sport, zero tolerance for doping," Matytsin said."

hopes for "further cooperation within the framework" of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping

Richard MacLean will not stand for another term as President of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) as it holds its Executive Board elections in December, and said he is "immensely proud" about the turnaround at the organisation.

International Sports Federations (GAISF) for failing to pay money owed to the umbrella organisation for "anti-doping

The draws for the team competitions at the postponed Chengdu 2021 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games will be made during a virtual head of delegations meeting, it has been announced.

2021 Winter Universiade in June.Topics due to be discussed include venues, accreditation, transport, doping

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has said a decision will be made "as early as possible" on whether boxing and weightlifting will part of the programme for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Championships ©Getty ImagesThe IWF and its former President Tamás Aján were found to have covered up doping

general.Bribery and vote-buying were commonplace and during Aján's tenure and he collected fines for anti-doping

Russian Olympic Committee President Stanislav Pozdnyakov expects that the country's youth athletes would not have to undergo three weeks of quarantine if they could not get vaccinated against COVID-19 before the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

the Olympics, under their flag and with their anthem as part of sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping