Russia is preparing a bid for the 2036 Olympic Games, with Saint Petersburg and Kazan the leading candidates, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Russia was banned from bidding for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games under the World Anti-Doping

(WADA) sanctions handed out to the country.The WADA sanctions came after it found the Russian Anti-Doping

he smiled after hearing that British sprinter CJ Ujah had been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping

María Guadalupe González Romero has been banned for a further four years for tampering with the anti-doping

her system, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) alleged and so charged the Mexican with another anti-doping

had their applications for Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) status approved by the World Athletics Doping

147, with five applications rejected in total.The ANA programme allows Russian athletes who meet anti-doping

batch of athletes approved as ANAs.The RusAF has been suspended since November 2015 in relation to doping

cover-ups.It faced expulsion from World Athletics last year for obstructing an anti-doping investigation

World Triathlon has asserted a potential anti-doping rule violation against Russian athlete Igor Polyanskiy

World Cup ©Getty ImagesWorld Triathlon was then informed of the case on August 5 by the World Anti-Doping

Britain's silver medal from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the men's 4x100 metres relay could be stripped after its sprinter CJ Ujah was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) as two banned substances were present in his system after the Games.

named.Proceedings against these athletes are now underway to determine if they have committed anti-doping

violations.If they are found to be in breach of anti-doping rules, their results at Tokyo 2020 could

to have had a blood transfusion when tested.Blood transfusions in athletes are associated with blood doping

positive test.Another AAF was found in a sample from June from Odhiambo, as confirmed by World Anti-Doping

Agency-accredited laboratory in Bloemfontein in South Africa on August 2.This sample was collected by the Anti-Doping

been reprimanded by the International Skating Union (ISU) for refusing to wear a mask during an anti-doping

out-of-competition test on April 28, but refused to wear a face covering - a contravention of the World Anti-Doping

he will never wear a mask in his own house", according to the ISU's published decision.The attending doping

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are not even a week old, yet the fight for sports to feature at future Games is hotting up. This week one which lays claim to being the biggest outside of the Olympic Movement, cricket, formally joined the race for a Los Angeles 2028 place.

weightlifting, which has been threatened with expulsion from the Olympics over a myriad of governance and anti-doping

The International Testing Agency (ITA) have reported that Ukrainian triathlete Yuliya Yelistratova has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) for recombinant erythroprotein (EPO) from a sample collected in Tokyo on July 23.

AAF on August 8, and the sample in question was collected by the ITA during out-of-competition anti-doping

authority of the International Olympic Committee.It added that the result was reported by the World Anti-Doping

Tokyo on July 28, and the case referred to World Triathlon for follow-up results.EPO violates anti-doping

suspension was upheld after Yelistratova appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Anti-Doping

The catastrophic cost of weightlifting losing its Olympic status is laid out in a letter to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and all its members.

It says that if weightlifting was dropped from the Olympic Games doping would take off unchecked, income

attendance fees and expenses for an endless series of Board meetings, the McLaren Report, and increased anti-doping

direct impact on elite athlete support, development, travel to competitions and other areas.On anti-doping

, the Fijians said weightlifting stood to lose valuable support from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA

) and the ITA if it lost its Olympic status because it would “no longer be a priority sport”.Doping would

Russian President Vladimir Putin is adamant that the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) team will perform well at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, following the country's ban from Rio 2016, a decision he remains hugely critical of.

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are scheduled to take place from August 24 to September 5.Due to the Russian doping

doping.It cited that the ban was implemented due to the country's inability to enforce the IPC's Anti-Doping

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has given its former President Sir Craig Reedie its highest honour - the President's Medal - for his "truly exceptional contribution" to the sport.

Sir Craig was previously the President of the World Anti-Doping Agency from 2013 to 2019, a member of

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has slammed the standard of refereeing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and accused Western countries of wishing for Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) athletes to fail.

By the way, the leadership of the American Anti-Doping Committee said that the results shown by the Russian

Defected sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is auctioning her Minsk 2019 European Games silver medal to raise funds to free athletes in Belarus under the regime of the Lukashenko Government.

the Athletics Integrity Unit, who said the athletes had not been tested enough by the national anti-doping

Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak to members of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) team today, prior to their departure for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

neutral athletes were permitted to compete subject to meeting conditions set by the IPC.The Russian doping

the implementation of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision regarding the Russian Anti-Doping