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ROC President "satisfied" by fifth place at Tokyo 2020 medals table

  • Tokyo 2020

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, is "satisfied" at the ROC team’s fifth place in the Tokyo 2020 medals table and believes Russian athletes have the potential to win more medals at the Paris 2024 Games.

prevented from competing as Russia or having their own flag and national anthem as part of the World Anti-Doping

Agency sanctions for the widespread doping regime uncovered in the wake of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games


From Tokyo to Tokyo, it has been 57 years of change for the Olympic Games

  • The Big Read

The Olympic Flame dies here in Tokyo after an Olympic Games that have, for all sorts of reasons, been like no other.

for much of the intervening years, the problem so severe that it was necessary to create a world anti-doping

His speech made headlines around the world when he described doping as "the most shameful abuse of the


Russia announces record size team for Paralympic Games at Tokyo 2020 despite ban

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Russia has announced it will be taking 241 athletes to the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, its largest ever delegation for the event, as it makes its return to the event after missing Rio 2016. 

As a result of the sanctions applied by the World Anti-Doping Agency against the Russian Anti-Doping

 Russia were banned from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games by the IPC over the doping scandal.At its


Coates admits key Olympic Charter changes targetted at IWF as IOC Session approves amendments

  • Olympics

Charter changes which could spell the end of weightlifting's long association with the Olympic Games have been unanimously approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session here today. 

which he said had failed to follow several clear directions from the Executive Board to improve its doping

IOCThe IOC has repeatedly warned the IWF in the past year about the need to reform after a series of doping


Javelin thrower Chopra wins historic Olympic athletics gold for India

  • Athletics

Neeraj Chopra tonight became the first Indian to win an Olympic athletics title - and only the second Indian athlete after shooter Abhinav Bindra to win an individual gold.

Speaking about being unable to compete at Rio 2016 because of the uncovered scandal of Russian doping


US Helsinki Commission members seek to strengthen anti-doping laws through GOLD Act

  • News

Members of the Helsinki Commission have introduced the Guaranteeing Oversight and Litigation on Doping

(GOLD) Act into the United States Congress, which would increase the penalties for doping fraud.

last month held a hearing on the enforcement of the Rodchenkov Act at Tokyo 2020.The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping

passed into law in December 2020, and gives the United States the ability to prosecute individuals for doping

However, the Helsinki Commission’s co-chair Steve Cohen said more needed to be done to tackle doping

No serious deterrent currently exists to stop the networks that engage in doping fraud, so doping continues

Enforcement of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act would put an end to this."


Kozák gains revenge over Carrington as Hungary retain K4 500m crown

  • Canoeing

Danuta Kozák gained her revenge over New Zealand’s golden girl Lisa Carrington by helping Hungary reign supreme again in the women’s K4 500 metres at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here.

crossing in 4:06.069 to claim bronze - the same colour medal he was stripped of in 2016 due to a positive doping

test.Serghei Tarnovschi, right, who was banned for four years in 2016 due to a positive doping test,


Miller-Uibo and Kipyegon retain 400m and 1500m titles as Cheptegei adds gold to silver

  • Athletics

Shaunae Miller-Uibo of The Bahamas and Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon retained their respective women’s 400 and 1500 metres titles here tonight with masterful performances after Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei had shown similar poise to add 5,000m gold to the 10,000m silver he won on the opening day of athletics.

Germany's Marita Koch.Naser, who runs for Bahrain, has recently been given a two-year ban for anti-doping


UKAD "pleased" independent appeal tribunal endorse decision to reduce Dry ban for tampering violations

  • Athletics

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) claimed it is "pleased" Mark Dry's ban for tampering violations has been reduced

whereabouts after he missed a drugs test on October 15 the previous year.Athletes must let the anti-doping

been fishing.In February 2020, an appeal tribunal said the 33-year-old "lied" to "subvert the anti-doping

and Gold Coast 2018, was banned not for missing the drugs test. but his subsequent misleading of the doping

An appeal tribunal has now unanimously endorsed this decision, which UKAD is "pleased" with.UK Anti-Doping

UKAD was able to reduce Mr Dry’s ban in light of the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code, introduced on 1 January



Brian Oliver: What next for weightlifting after strangest Olympics yet?

  • Inside the Blogs

Halfway through the weightlifting programme at Tokyo 2020 Antonio Urso said, "The Olympic Games is demonstrating that it's possible to have a completely different sport, to rewrite weightlifting."

back to previous insidethegames articles here and here.The past will always haunt weightlifting - the doping

not a domineering presence.In this new era, the worst offenders were punished for past, or recent, doping


Exclusive: Isinbayeva and Terho standing for IOC Athletes' Commission chair

  • Olympics

Russian two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has launched an audacious bid to become chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission.

the Brazilian city.The Russian athletics team was barred from Rio 2016 because of the state-sponsored doping


AIU welcomes CAS rejection of Ukrainian athlete’s appeal against 20km race walk ineligibility

  • Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has acknowledged the upholding of its decision to make Ukraine’s Nazar Kovalenko ineligible to compete in the men’s 20 kilometres race walk that has just concluded in Sapporo.

found that the AIU’s introduction of Rule 15 requiring Member Federations to abide by serious anti-doping

The imposition of consequences for a failure to comply with such anti-doping obligations was important

misconduct of an athlete, rather to hold Member Federations to account for failing to comply with their anti-doping

Games have concluded.A total of 20 athletes from the seven nations deemed most at-risk when it comes to doping


UKAD described as "extremely competent" in WADA audit

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) audit of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has described the agency as "extremely

read: "It is the view of the audit team that UKAD is a high functioning and performing National Anti-Doping

has a process in place to monitor its National Governing Bodies' (NGBs) compliance in terms of anti-doping

enhanced through its Assurance Framework (included in the revised and recently adopted National Anti-Doping

https://t.co/ta7D0U2qqo#CleanSport pic.twitter.com/528j31OChi— UK Anti-Doping (@ukantidoping) August

conducts audits on a routine basis to focus on applying international standards and the World Anti-Doping