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Panel investigating Nigerian athletes forced to miss Tokyo 2020 over lack of testing begins in-person meetings

  • Athletics

A panel set up to investigate the circumstances around how ten Nigerian athletes ended up being ruled ineligible to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has started in-person meetings.

over how rigorously they were tested in the build-up.Under Rule 15 of the National Federation Anti-Doping

Games, any athlete from a Category A country needs to face at least three no-notice, out-of-competition doping


Mike Rowbottom: How Johnson’s 1988 drug bust saw sports writers testing positive for cigarettes and alcohol

  • Inside the Blogs

Thirty-three years ago today an unscheduled Olympic occurrence in South Korea jolted a generation of sports writers out of their beds.

another landmark in becoming the first man to lose an Olympic athletics title for doping.The Olympic Doping

Three days later a positive doping test annulled both the victory and time ©Getty ImagesFor many, no

until his dying day, nor the man who administered his doping programme, doctor Jamie Astaphan, claimed

Twenty-five years ago I knew that other people were doping and I had the decision of whether I should

People started to talk to me about it in 1983, and I started on doping in 1984, round about March, April


Exclusive: Leadership turmoil at European Weightlifting Federation after vote of no confidence in Agapitov

  • Weightlifting

Members of the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) have delivered the strongest possible message that they want Maxim Agapitov to step down from his role as Acting President.

attend in person.Hasan Akkus, who stood aside as President in June after being charged with a serious doping

Electoral Congress.Hasan Akkus is hoping to return as EWF President if and when he is cleared of a doping


FISU secretary general Saintrond awarded Order of Friendship accolade by Russia

  • Universiade

Eric Saintrond, secretary general and chief executive of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), has been awarded the Order of Friendship, an honour given to individuals whose work has had a positive impact in Russia.

Government officials may not hold Board positions at organisations which are signed up to the World Anti-Doping

Code while the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, and by extension Russia, is subject to World Anti-Doping

Agency sanctions for manipulation of Moscow Laboratory data.FISU is a World Anti-Doping Code signatory.Saintrond



IPC backs European Commission's HL4A initiative

  • Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is financially supporting National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) in Europe through the European Commission's HealthyLifestyle4All (HL4A) initiative, which looks to promote a healthy lifestyle for people of all social groups.

include FIFA, the International Olympic Committee, the International School Sport Federation, World Anti-Doping


"We said things we weren’t allowed to say" - when athletes challenged the IOC and were finally given a voice

  • The Big Read

Tuesday (September 28) is a very special 40th anniversary for the Olympic Games and all its athletes.

1981: they felt they were on the outside, ignored and overlooked at a time of political boycotts and doping

Baden-Baden Congress there were two boycotts of the Olympic Games, at Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980, and doping

Moscow but for the illegal advantage gained by East German swimmers under a systematic, state-sponsored doping

They were doping; amateurism; political involvement and boycotts; gender imbalance; and Olympic ceremonies

skier, a gold medalist in 1976, would be the lead-off speaker, presenting the athletes’ position on doping



FIL forced to reverse awarding of 2023 Natural Track World Championships to Moscow

  • Luge

The International Luge Federation (FIL) has been forced to reverse an embarrassing decision made at today's Congress to award the 2023 Natural Track World Championships to Moscow due to a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision preventing Russia from being awarded any major events before December 2022.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) initially imposed four-year sanctions on Russia in December 2018

after it found doping data from the Moscow Laboratory had been tampered with and manipulated.The Russian

Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) appealed against the decision to CAS, which halved the sanctions to two


Former German cyclist suspended for nine years over anti-doping violations

  • Cycling

been slapped with a nine-and-a-half-year ban from the sport after being found to have violated anti-doping

Thurau’s results over the past 11 years have also been scrubbed off following the National Anti Doping

NADA) ruling.The 33-year-old, who retired from racing at the end of 2019, was found guilty of several doping

©Getty ImagesAll of Thurau's results from December 21 in 2010 - where the first inspection of anti-doping

function during the suspension in competitions or sporting activities" unless it is an authorised anti-doping


Znarok re-appointed head coach of Russian national ice hockey team

  • Ice Hockey

Oleg Znarok has been re-appointed as head coach of the Russian men's national ice hockey team, having guided the "neutral" Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) to gold at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

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


Whistler to stage 2025 Luge World Championships as FIL Congress awards Russia 2023 Natural Track World Championships

  • Luge

(FIL) Congress has awarded the 2023 Natural Track World Championships to Moscow despite World Anti-Doping

two - says Russia may not "bid for or be granted" and World Championship organised by a World Anti-Doping

years.The two-year period is due to end on December 16 2022.WADA sanctions against the Russian Anti-Doping

Olympic Games is the most severe punishment available to WADA for non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping

2023 World Championships in February, after moving the 2022 edition outside of the country.World Anti-Doping


Tardif elected International Ice Hockey Federation President

  • Ice Hockey

Luc Tardif is the new President of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) after being elected at the body's Semi-Annual Congress in Saint Petersburg.

provide balance between high-level and development ice hockey, fight against threats to the sport such as doping