The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is due to start the second consultation phase of its governance review

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has said the organisation will recommend that its travelling contingent for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games are vaccinated against COVID-19 - but it will not be mandatory.

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

Russia’s Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has been praised for adopting a strong stance against doping in

Mikhail Petru, head of the anti-doping monitoring group of the Council of Europe, thanked Matytsin "for

his very strong commitment to the fight against doping" following a visit to Moscow.A delegation was

to assess whether the country is correctly implementing measures laid out in the convention against doping

We have developed a concept of regional cooperation in countering doping."

on Russia in December 2018 after it found doping data from the Moscow Laboratory had been tampered with

tested positive for banned substances in retests of their samples, has been banned for four years for doping

Makhov's suspension has been backdated to the date of his failed test in January 2020, the Russian Anti-Doping

Modzmanashvili.Modzmanashvili and his opponent in the final, Uzbekistan's Artur Taymazov, were both caught doping

The Asian Jump Rope Union (AJRU) has been recognised as Asia's official continental organisation by the International Jump Rope Union (IJRU).

The IJRU, which became a World Anti-Doping Code signatory earlier this year, lists 17 members from Asia

Madrid's Mayor has dismissed a claim made by his Deputy that the city is launching a bid for the 2036 Olympic and Paralympics - but has met with the head of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) to discuss staging the Games in the future.

bids.The 2020 bid was considered to be hurt by Spain's weak economy, as well as the Operación Puerto doping

case, an ongoing Spanish Police investigation into the doping network of Eufemiano Fuentes.On the April

sentence.The judge was requested to rule that the athletes' blood bags be given  to the Spanish Anti-Doping

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lavished praise on the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for its "constructive cooperation" and "trust" in his nation.

staging major events until December 2022 as part of a range of punishments imposed by the World Anti-Doping

Agency after it found the Russian Anti-Doping Agency had manipulated and tampered with data at the Moscow

World Athletics has borrowed $7.5 million (£5.5 million/€6.4 million) from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the biggest such loan to have come to light since the IOC published a list of 15 International Federations to which it was lending money.

revenue.World Athletics explained: "In March 2020, RusAF admitted breaching the World Athletics Anti-Doping

You might have missed it, but last week was "Sport Integrity Week".

Foreign Minister led to the first Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision in the infamous Sun Yang doping

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) aims to support National Federations and ensure "good governance" throughout the country's sporting organisations.

Agenda 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stressed the importance of transparency, anti-doping

Rastorgujevs has been handed an 18-month ban after he missed three drugs tests in a 12-month period, the Anti-Doping

The whereabouts system is a core pillar of the global anti-doping structure and the BIU will make sure

As we can see in this case, whereabouts failures can result in anti-doping rule violations and sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to attend the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing after accepting an invitation from Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

competing.Putin attended the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, an event marred by the state-sponsored doping

A report commissioned by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has revealed a "knowledge gap" among coaches who are unsure

of how to educate athletes on anti-doping.

spanning 56 sports showed a majority of coaches believe it is "not their role to coach athletes on anti-doping

that they lacked knowledge and confidence to do it themselves", UKAD said.Coaches have called for anti-doping

Education is regularly touted as a crucial tool in the fight against doping and UKAD believes coaching

Perhaps the most frequent criticism of the Olympic Movement as an entity is that it lacks independence.

Olympic Movement are frequently criticised over a lack of independence ©Getty ImagesThe World Anti-Doping

the Olympic stakeholders and the public authorities focused on the challenges facing the prospect of doping-free

unsatisfactory efforts," Pound, who chaired the first independent investigation into state-sponsored doping

many of the stakeholders were less than enthusiastic about having independent review of their anti-doping

When I was WADA President, there was never any question of hesitating to apply the World Anti-Doping

Swiss Olympic has given an unnamed hornusser a six-year doping suspension after the athlete was ruled

to have attempted to import and take prohibited substances, as well as tamper with the doping control

products.The athlete was found guilty of a forgery due to altering documents, which counted as tampering with doping