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Olympic history to be made as 3x3 set for long-awaited debut at Tokyo 2020

  • 3x3 basketball

The wait for the Olympic debut of 3x3 basketball is almost over, with the first matches in the historic competition scheduled to be held here at Tokyo 2020 tomorrow.

competing "neutrally" at the Games because of sanctions imposed on the nation for the state-sponsored doping



WADA confident US will pay up after country withholds part of funding

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is not concerned by the United States withholding some of its dues

Richard Baum, the White House coordinator for doping in sport, told the Senate that the US was paying

angered WADA by pushing through an act which gives the nation the power to prosecute individuals for doping

hopes will pave the way for improved relations with the US.ichard Baum, the White House coordinator for doping

WADA-standard drugs testing into college sport ©Getty ImagesNiggli took aim at the United States Anti-Doping


Russian Olympic Committee delegation among most tested prior to Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

International Testing Agency (ITA) director general Benjamin Cohen has revealed that Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) athletes are among the most tested heading into Tokyo 2020 here.

after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) partially upheld sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) for the manipulation of the Moscow Laboratory data.The doping scandal emerged following

 Concerns over the independence of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has been a major topic

thoroughly tested prior to the Games, as part of the ITA’s eight-month long pre-Olympic Games anti-doping

We encourage all anti-doping organisations to make use of that possibility."


Seven new members appointed to CGF Anti-Doping and Medical Commission

  • Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Executive Board has appointed seven new members to its Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) Therapeutic Use Exemption Expert Group and the Anti-Doping Committee of the International

of the WADA Health Medical and Research Committee and is the President of the Uganda National Anti-Doping

I am proud that we have been able to recruit genuine, world leading experts in the anti-doping and medical

These are exciting times as we will not only be overseeing the anti-doping and medical services required

All new members of the Anti-Doping and Medical Commission have been appointed for an initial two-year


Athletes lose Tokyo 2020 places as eight qualifying marks annulled by AIU

  • Athletics

Eight qualifying performances for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been rejected following investigation by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), with the athletes concerned being denied places.

investigated by the AIU ©Getty ImagesAIU chair David Howman said: "The work of the AIU goes far beyond anti-doping



Brazilian weightlifter Figueiredo cleared to compete at Tokyo 2020 Olympics after food supplement positives

  • Weightlifting

Brazilian weightlifter Natasha Rosa Figueiredo has been cleared to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here after falling foul of an incorrectly labelled food supplement.

the circumstances, including the fact that the athlete had failed to list the food supplement on her doping

control forms, the sole arbitrator concluded that a minor anti-doping rule violation had been established

International Testing Agency lifted her provisional suspension and referred the matter to the CAS Anti-Doping


IOC faces legal challenge from Russian weightlifting leader after withdrawing accreditation

  • Weightlifting

Maxim Agapitov is challenging a decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to withdraw his accreditation for Tokyo 2020.

The IOC highlighted the condition that officials must "not have a personal history linked to any anti-doping

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

warnings about removing weightlifting from the Olympic Games programme over the past year, as a result of doping

the IOC is unhappy at the presence on the Board of so many members from nations with historically bad doping

scandals, five represent National Federations that have reduced athlete quotas because of doping, and


Hoevertsz claims dream has come true after elected IOC vice-president

  • Olympics

Nicole Hoevertsz said her dream had become a reality after she was elected as a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the organisation's Session here today.

chaired the Disciplinary Commission which investigated and ruled on Russian cases stemming from the doping-tainted

Prince Frederik of Denmark, who resigned as an IOC member last month, and Britain's former World Anti-Doping


UKAD to maintain safety measures despite easing of COVID-19 restrictions

  • Latest

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) says that COVID-19 safety measures will continue to be followed during its doping

materials when used, and ask athletes a series of COVID-19-related safeguarding questions.The anti-doping

2021, UKAD has taken the decision to uphold the revised safety measures, introduced last year, for doping

It is important for the safety of everyone involved in the doping control process, including athletes

and Doping Control Personnel, that social distancing continues where possible and personal protective

The doping control processes will remain under review in the coming weeks and months, and any further


Saint Kitts and Nevis swimmer's Olympic bid fails after CAS Ad Hoc Division ruling

  • Tokyo 2020

Jennifer Harding-Marlin’s last-ditch attempt to compete at the 2020 Olympics here has been dashed after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division dismissed her appeal to win a universality spot at the Games here.

CAS - the sport's highest court - opened an Ad Hoc Division to deal with legal disputes and an Anti-Doping


European weightlifting champion Toma fails with legal challenge against Olympic ban

  • Weightlifting

Loredana Toma, the European weightlifting champion from Romania, has failed with a legal challenge against her exclusion from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

64 kilograms when the Romanian Weightlifting Federation (FRH) was suspended for a year for multiple doping

violations on June 15.The 26-year-old multiple champion was not involved in the historic doping cases

damage" resulting from the serious failings of her own National Federation.The FRH has a poor record on doping

s view, however, such an impact is necessary in order to ensure the efficiency of the fight against doping

and protection scheme in Romanian weightlifting" is being investigated by the World Anti-Doping Agency.In


World Athletics approves further 20 Russian athletes to compete internationally under ANA programme

  • Athletics

A further 20 Russians have been granted permission by the World Athletics Doping Review Board to compete

143, with five applications rejected so far.The ANA programme allows Russian athletes who meet anti-doping

at other international competitions.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

Arbitration for Sport ruling, which halved the four-year period of punishments imposed by the World Anti-Doping


Exclusive: Hoevertsz to replace DeFrantz as IOC vice-president

  • Olympics

Nicole Hoevertsz is set to continue her rise through the ranks of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by replacing Anita DeFrantz as a vice-president of the organisation.

chaired the Disciplinary Commission which investigated and ruled on Russian cases stemming from the doping-tainted