This week 40 years ago, Carl Lewis, Ed Moses, Ulrike Meyfarth, Jarmila Kratochvílová, Steve Ovett and Seb Coe were amongst the winners at the 1981 Athletics World Cup in Rome’s Olympic stadium.

On his watch, three Romanian and two Bulgarian athletes were reinstated after doping offences.Even so

The Russian weightlifting official Maxim Agapitov has had a complaint about an American counterpart "partially upheld" - a second ruling in his favour during a time of turmoil in the sport in recent weeks.

unconstitutionally, three members from Egypt, Romania and Thailand because their nations were banned from Tokyo for doping

violation of a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)".The CAS case involved the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).In its ruling CAS stated that no "representatives

Federation" may sit on the Board of an International Federation that is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has released its full decision following the four-year ban handed to American runner Shelby Houlihan, which says her explanation "presupposes a cascade of factual and scientific improbabilities".

The World Anti-Doping Agency agreed that test proved that there was no build up of this substance in

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has launched its new website, www.nigeriaolympic.org, which features an array of information on the Olympic Movement in the country and ushers in a new era for the organisation, it is claimed. 

 Nigeria's participation at Tokyo 2020, though, was overshadowed by two doping scandals.

long jump silver medallist Blessing Okagbare had been provisionally suspended following a positive doping

The Olympic Flags are flying at half-mast this week in Lausanne and across Belgium in memory for Jacques Rogge. His 12-year tenure as President of the  International Olympic Committee (IOC) will perhaps best be remembered for his work in launching the Youth Olympic Games.

financial stability in the Olympic Movement after its worst ethics scandal and pursued a hard line against doping

Double Olympic gold medallist Derartu Tulu has accused Ethiopian runners of chasing “quick money” and turning to performance-enhancing drugs to help them.

listed as a category A nation by the Athletics Integrity Unit, meaning they considered more at risk at doping

list, the EAF launched a major education programme among young athletes to warn them of the dangers of doping

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that its all-important elections will be held on December 2 and 3 - but mystery surrounds the situation in European weightlifting, which may have to vote in a permanent leader a few days earlier.

federation, when its President, Hasan Akkus of Turkey, "stepped aside" after being charged with an historic doping

Together, we have shown that - in governance as with doping - we have been prepared to put the dark days

Weightlifting’s warring factions put their differences aside to adopt reforms which they hope will help to secure the sport’s future on the Olympic Games programme.

gives a leading level of athlete representation, gender equality as well as exceptionally strong anti-doping

National federations with a high number of doping cases will not be allowed to have representatives on

were banned outright or had reduced athlete quotas at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of multiple doping

Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, who led the organisation from 2001 to 2013, has died at the age of 79.

He was also a fierce proponent of clean sport, and fought tirelessly against the evils of doping."

The World Anti Doping Authority (WADA) could rule Doping Authority Netherlands non-compliant at a Board

meeting next month due to concerns regarding the distinction between the anti-doping body and the country's

Article 8.1 of the World Anti-Doping Code states anti-doping organisations must provide any person who

is accused of violating an anti-doping regulation with a minimum of a "a fair hearing within a reasonable

, WADA has threatened to rule the doping authority "non-compliant" at next month's Board meeting.Herman

Ram, chairman of Doping Authority Netherlands, has warned he anticipates being declared non-compliant

Dutch amateur cyclist Sjors Dekker was banned for four years for a doping violation earlier this year

When in 2013, the global baseball and softball families agreed to merge under one unified, global governing body – the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) – we did so in the long-term interest of our sports. We understood there was strength in unity and, by taking the best of both sports, we could form a stronger and more convincing campaign to get baseball and softball back on the Olympic programme.

followed up softball gold with baseball gold at the Olympics ©Getty ImagesWe strengthened our anti-doping

procedures with robust testing and monitoring to bring us in line with the World Anti-Doping Agency

Some of weightlifting’s most popular Olympic champions of the 21st century - and a 92-year-old who won Olympic gold nearly 70 years ago - have added their voices to the clarion call for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board to put the sport before their own interests.

long held sway at the IWF.The "old guard", comprising many members from nations with past or present doping

followed in June by the McLaren Report into weightlifting corruption, and other investigations by anti-doping

Marcin Polak, the Polish track cyclist who won bronze in the men's B 4,000 metres individual pursuit at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, has been suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) having tested positive for erythropoietin, otherwise known as EPO.

Tokyo 2020 organisers have been left red-faced after playing the wrong anthem for the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) following Mikhail Astashov’s track cycling success at the Izu Velodrome yesterday.

Katyusha, considered to have been directly associated with Russia, which would be in breach of the doping

Laboratory.The country's name, anthem and flag has also been banned under the sanctions for the state-sponsored doping

Athletes’ leader Sarah Davies has told the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) that the sport belongs to its athletes, not those who govern it - and that its Olympic future is doomed unless the entire Board resigns.

weightlifting’s history Davies accuses individual IWF Board members of being involved in state-sponsored doping

Davies is critical not just of the "Old Guard" Board members, most but not all of whom are from "doping

In the ARD documentary, Thai lifters as young as 13 years old were openly doping.

Romania has been banned from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for doping violations. Mr.

India’s allotment was reduced in the Tokyo Games (for doping)."