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Chinese swimming scandal: WADA call meeting

  • Swimming

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revealed plans on Monday for an extraordinary session later this

GETTY IMAGESTravis Tygart, the leader of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), has characterised

independent prosecutor, Eric Cottier, a former Swiss public prosecutor, to examine the global anti-doping



WADA calls for release of Tunisia's national anti-doping organisation Director General

  • Olympics

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has expressed its deep concern following the arrest and dismissal

of the Director General of the Tunisian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) for trying to deal with the

consequences of ANAD's non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code.

The heads of the Tunisian swimming federation and the national anti-doping agency were detained on Saturday

Saied reacted angrily to the absence of the flag.In response, WADA warned the Tunisian National Anti-Doping

the international watch list.Tunisia has joined Angola's National Olympic Committee, the Russian Anti-Doping

The African National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO) has one outstanding critical corrective action related

Ministry of Sport announced on Friday that it had issued a decree requiring compliance with the World Anti-Doping


Americans want answers from WADA, but trust issues persist

  • Olympics

With the Olympics less than three months away and the aftermath of the Chinese doping scandal still lingering

playing field won’t die down; but it’s in the United States, where the news broke, that the World Anti-Doping

million above its annual requirements to WADA programmes both years prior to what the United States Anti-Doping

In September 2018, USADA CEO Travis Tygart called WADA's decision to reinstate The Russian Anti-Doping

Agency after a three-year ban following allegations of state-sponsored doping “a devastating blow to


Fencer Ysaora Thibus faces the most important defence of her career

  • Olympics

The fencer Ysaora Thibus, suspended after a positive anti-doping test, will face perhaps the most important

Fencing Federation (FIE) why the anabolic substance ostarine was found in her system during an anti-doping

who in a press release on 20th February "categorically denied having been administered the slightest doping

2023A direct consequence of the principle of specific objective responsibility in the fight against doping

Agency (AFLD), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) or the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which

The World Anti-Doping Code sets penalties according to the nature of the doping product, and ostarine


ANOCA President Mustapha Berraf on Artificial Intelligence

  • Olympics

The President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf, has issued a statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a field of research in computer science that is growing and will continue to do so in the coming months and years.

will transform sport, from athlete training to judging and refereeing, together with the fight against doping


'Tunisia Before the Olympic Committee,' President Saied reacts to flag incident

  • Olympics

championship in Radès —where the country's flag was covered in response to sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping

WADA suspended Tunisia’s National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) in April for non-compliance with its code

Kais Saied has completely dissolved his country's swimming federation for complying to the World Anti-Doping


Mosaab Mohamed Gharsalla banned for three years for doping

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

IPC) has suspended para powerlifter Mosaab Mohamed Gharsalla for a period of three years for an anti-doping

rule violation (ADRV) in breach of the IPC Anti-Doping Code.

The substances are included in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list for 2023 under class

IPC.Libyan Para powerlifting athlete Mosaab Mohamed Gharsalla receives three-year ban for committing an anti-doping

athlete will be ineligible for competition and other sporting activities (other than approved anti-doping


18-year-old Czech tennis talent suspended for doping

  • Tennis

The drug is at the heart of Nikola Bartunkova’s provisional sanction by the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme

, an 18-year-old tennis player from Czechia, has been provisionally suspended under the Tennis Anti-Doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) initially investigated the incident originally and allowed the athletes


Kenyan Josephine Chepkoech provisionally suspended for testosterone use

  • Athlete's Websites

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced the athlete's suspension last Tuesday for violating Article 2.1 of its code by using a prohibited substance. Chepkoech faces a two-year sanction if the violation is confirmed. There is now a period of appeal for the athlete, who will not be able to take part in any competition until a final decision has been made.

Josephine Chepkoech joins a long and worrying list of Kenyan athletes recently caught up in doping cases

The number of doping cases has skyrocketed, raising serious questions about the integrity of the sport.The

cases, a Provisional Suspension is mandatory under the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules following an

In doping cases, the World Anti-Doping Rules require a Provisional Suspension following an Adverse Analytical

A Provisional Suspension imposed in a non-doping case does not in any way overturn the presumption of


Ukraine sports minister writes off Friendship Games as Russian propaganda

  • Paris 2024

Ukraine's acting sports minister Matviy Bidnyi says Russia has shown it "disregards the principles of Olympism" by organising the Friendship Games for September. He added that Russia is "merely attempting to use sport for its propaganda".

for Putin who, he says, showed his disdain for the IOC and the Olympic movement with state-sponsored doping


JJAU seminars aim to elevate referees' and staff's technical skills

  • Ju-jitsu

The Jiu-Jitsu Asian Union (JJAU) has conducted a series of seminars alongside the eighth Jiu-Jitsu Asian Championship, to refine technical proficiency among individuals associated with the sport. Tailored to enrich the skills of referees, support staff, and officials, these seminars provided participants with insights into the latest rules and practices.

the seminars covered a diverse array of topics, including safeguarding, inclusive self-defence rules, doping

Notably, the anti-doping seminar athletes attended was conducted by experts from the World Anti-Doping


Ukrainian European champion weightlifter killed in battle

  • Paris 2024

The Ukrainian Olympic Committee announced via Telegram on Monday that two-time European weightlifting champion Olexander Pyolechenko had died "in combat with the enemy" on the front line of the war against Russia.

first Olympian to be killed while serving in the Ukrainian-Russian war.Pielieshenko returned from a doping

He committed a second doping violation in 2018.According to Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych


Carl Lewis: Don't pile Olympic pressure on Lyles

  • Athletics

US track and field star Carl Lewis has pleaded that Noah Lyles be given some leeway as he heads into the Paris Olympics as a hot sprint favourite with a potential eye on four gold medals, Agence France-Presse reported Monday.  Lyles added another gold to his trophy cabinet by anchoring the US team to victory in the men's 4x100m on Sunday at the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, where American quartets won four of five events raced as Olympic qualifiers.

American who won a second 100m Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988 after Ben Johnson tested positive for doping

, as well as three world titles (1983, 1987 —again promoted due to Johnson's doping—  1991).While


AOC: Aussies won’t be distracted by Chinese swimmers scandal

  • Olympics

In the Australian Olympic Committee’s annual meeting on Saturday, AOC president Ian Chesterman expressed full confidence in his swimmers’ focus in Paris 2024, while announcing three major initiatives aimed at supporting Indigenous athletes with an eye towards Brisbanne 2032.

mounts for every athlete, federation and National Olympic Committee; and recent news regarding alleged doping

Accusations of a possible cover-up by local officials and lack of intervention from the World Anti-Doping

further determine how it handled the 23 positive tests from the swimmers in 2021, when the Chinese Anti-Doping