Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been provisionally suspended and will miss the remainder of Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for human growth hormone.

Growth hormone is a non-specified substance on the 2021 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list

mandatory following an adverse analytical finding for such substance under the World Athletics anti-doping

Seven sessions so far and three have been all-time greats. The roll-call of stars at the Tokyo International Forum, venue for weightlifting at these Olympic Games, is a long one and we are only halfway through the schedule. 

Corruption scandals rooted in doping, doping itself, and hopeless governance have led to many harsh words

The IOC spoke out in February this year after the IWF made the disastrous decision to weaken its anti-doping

rules without consulting the IOC or its own Independent Anti-Doping Commission.It said: "The situation

After earlier doping scandals at Seoul 1988 and Sydney 2000, it was clear how bad things were.

He said this week: "Weightlifting without doping is so interesting.

Ryan Murphy of the United States, who won swimming silver in today’s men’s 200 metres backstroke final behind Evgeny Rylov of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), told a media conference that he could not be sure the race was clean.

Murphy said he was not directly accusing Rylov, who earlier won the men’s 100m backstroke title, of doping

At the end of the day, I do believe there’s doping in swimming.“That is what it is.

said, we are working on it, it’s gonna be hard and it’s gonna take a long time to clear this sport of doping

to that.”Ryan Murphy revealed he had spoken to new FINA executive director Brent Nowicki about the doping

 "He was asked what he thought in general about possible doping abuse in the sport of swimming."

A "made-up" story involving weightlifters from China and India has been so widely reported throughout Asia that it has led to claims of athletes from three nations being involved in medal reallocations.

kilograms gold medallist Hou Zhihui, from China, had been asked to stay in Tokyo for an extra anti-doping

complete fabrication, based on a comment from "a source in the know of developments".The World Anti-Doping

said it knew nothing about it, and the International Testing Agency (ITA) - which is carrying out anti-doping

developments on our website," said an ITA official.There have been no developments from the routine anti-doping

weightlifting medallist since Sydney 2000, has a restricted quota at Tokyo 2020 because of multiple doping

Members of the Lake Placid 2023 Organising Committee staff have lent a hand at a local Ironman race, volunteering their time and observing the event as preparations for hosting the Winter World University Games continue.

of Ironman Lake Placid, volunteering on his paddleboard.Tracey Viola, head of medical services and doping

In the first half of the weightlifting programme at Tokyo 2020 Asia has cleaned up, winning 16 of the 21 medals while only one European nation has been represented on the podium.

2012 Olympic Games, one of them for three straight days.Urso was aware that the sport was riddled with doping

Swiss sprinter Alex Wilson has been ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reinstated a provisional suspension.

Such criterion is not in line with the applicable rules of Anti-Doping Switzerland which provide that

regrets the case, which follows the recent nine-month ban handed to Kariem Hussein for a breach of anti-doping

the international and national sports associations must not compromise when it comes to preventing doping

Swiss Olympic is convinced that the fight against doping must be carried out with all consistency."

reigning Pan American Games champion, received a 12-month ban.He was provisionally suspended for anti-doping

A group of 10 Nigerian athletes have been declared ineligible for the Olympics by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) because they were not tested rigorously enough in the run-up to Tokyo 2020.

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

cleared to compete.Category A National Federations are deemed by the AIU to be the most susceptible to doping

athletes have all been excluded from the Hames on the basis of Rule 15 of the National Federation Anti-Doping

National Federations must play their part in supporting anti-doping efforts," said David Howman, chair

I must underline that there have been significant improvements in anti-doping efforts in most 'Category

The Russia Taskforce confirmed to the World Athletics Council today that "satisfactory progress" is still being made in the negotiations to end the long-running suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF).

RusAF, out in the cold since November 2015 following the revelations of widespread and state-supported doping

Alberto Salazar, the banned track coach associated with the now defunct Nike Oregon Project, has been ruled permanently ineligible by the United States Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct and emotional misconduct violations.

Olympic sports, is subject to appeal by Salazar, who received a four-year ban from the United States Anti-Doping

Rupp - has ever tested positive for any banned substance, USADA determined Salazar tampered with the doping

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has moved its General Assembly in October from Seoul to Athens.

 The Executive Council also approved the ANOC World Beach Games regulations and anti-doping rules

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has appointed director of strategy and education Emily Robinson to serve as interim

We have an excellent team with world class expertise across all areas of anti-doping, led by an experienced

UKAD is under scrutiny for its handling of a potential anti-doping rule violations within British Cycling

of the agency, which is due to run until 2025.UKAD is currently being investigated by the World Anti-Doping

Maude Charron went into weightlifting "just for fun", finds training a bit boring, and had never made an international appearance at the time of the last Olympic Games in 2016.

reform within weightlifting, which is in danger of losing its Olympic status because of a series of doping

was an Olympic champion at London 2012 - but not until 2016, when other lifters were disqualified for doping

thinking I had any chance".That changed as time passed, as key rivals dropped out because of injury or doping

first since the Soviet Union era.On the eve of the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, World Anti-Doping

In Russia, we have no longer to deal with an unprecedented system of doping support, organised with the

 "There has never been any Government support for doping - this position has always been principled

Today the efforts of the Ministry of Sports and the state, together with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency

, are aimed at creating a system of counteracting doping through educational programmes, through strict

The rules on the use of cannabis by athletes should be reviewed, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said in the wake of the case that meant Sha'Carri Richardson, winner of the women’s 100 metres at the US Olympic trials, missing Tokyo 2020.

President said he had asked the independent Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) to work with the World Anti-Doping

’s absence was "a loss to the competition" but predicted "she will bounce back".The 2021 World Anti-Doping

use it outside of competition face a three-month ban, although in this case the United States Anti-Doping