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Weightlifting gold for Canada’s Charron - and two medals for Chinese Taipei

  • Weightlifting

Maude Charron became the first Canadian woman to stand on top of the Olympic weightlifting podium when she put in a superb performance to win the 64 kilograms gold at Tokyo International Forum.

and Romania’s Loredana Toma because her National Federation is banned from these Games for multiple doping


Savate returns with World Youth Championships and World Youth Cup in assaut in Serbia

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The International Savate Federation (FISav) has been able to hold its first in-person event since March 2020, with the World Youth Championships and the World Cup for cadets in savate assaut taking place in the Serbian town of Ruma.

Sports and the Municipality of Ruma.Local and national authorities assisted with medical services, doping


Mike Rowbottom: Stoked is the word as the arts of skateboarding and amateur boxing cohabit at the Olympics

  • Inside the Blogs

Stoked. I've missed the word at the Summer Olympics. Heard it many a time at the Winter Games, of course, when that cradle of sports began to take in babes-in-arms, starting with snowboarding last time an Olympic carnival played out in this country, at Nagano 1998.

year or so earlier by the United States President Bill Clinton when he was taxed with some ancient doping


IWF launches new website, targets boosted digital engagement during Tokyo 2020

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has launched a new website, coinciding with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and efforts to boost digital engagement.

revamped website.One of the five sections navigable from the top of the new website is dedicated to anti-doping

, and the website launch comes as a time when weightlifting's doping past and governance concerns threaten


Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz wins first-ever Olympic gold for Philippines

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz became the first Olympic gold medallist for the Philippines when she made a dramatic final lift at the Tokyo International Forum.

overcome by emotion.Zulfiya Chinshanlo, who was one of four Kazakhstan gold medallists disqualified for doping


ROC edge out Japan to clinch men's team artistic gymnastics title at Tokyo 2020

  • Gymnastics

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) held their nerve to dethrone defending champions Japan and claim one of the neutral team's most sought-after gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in a thrilling artistic gymnastics men's team final here tonight.

the ROC is supposed to be competing neutrally at these Games as punishment for the state-sponsored doping


FIAS holds international seminar for sambo coaches in Colombia

  • Sambo

An International Sambo Federation (FIAS) international seminar for coaches has been held in Colombia, shortly after the conclusion of the Pan American Sambo Championships.

.FIAS sports director Dmitry Maksimov oversaw the seminar, which covered theoretical coaching, anti-doping

, the FIAS database and the classification of sambo techniques.During the workshop the new anti-doping




Batsarashkina becomes first ROC gold medallist

  • Shooting

Vitalina Batsarashkina carved herself a small piece of history as the first gold medallist at Tokyo 2020 for Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).

following the ban on them using their flag and national anthems following a ban imposed by the World Anti-Doping


Court ruling forces IOC into U-turn over Russian weightlifting leader after support from McLaren

  • Weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been told to reinstate the accreditation of Russia’s most senior weightlifting official.

Federation (EWF) and President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RFUF), was suspended for a doping

also published a shocking report on corruption in weightlifting last year.Maxim Agapitov, banned for a doping

, who for many years has been known in the weightlifting community as an implacable fighter against doping

I became a victim of doping myself."

After I won a bronze medal in the World Championships in 1997 and underwent the doping-control, I found




World champions Denmark bid for consecutive men's Olympic handball titles

  • Handball

Denmark will seek to become the second nation to win back-to-back men’s Olympic handball titles when they launch their Tokyo 2020 campaign tomorrow against host nation Japan.

France take on the Russian Olympic Committee team, who are competing under the label due to World Anti-Doping


Tokyo 2020 will be "turning point" for boxing, predicts Task Force chair Watanabe

  • Boxing

Morinari Watanabe, chairman of the Boxing Task Force (BTF) charged with supervising the sport at Tokyo 2020, sounded a stark warning today on the eve of competition.

Richard McClaren - whose agency Global Sport Solutions produced the 2016 report on state-sponsored doping

by Russia and last year investigated financial and doping irregularities within the International Weightlifting