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Saint Kitts and Nevis swimmer first athlete to register appeal at Tokyo 2020 CAS Ad Hoc Division

  • Tokyo 2020

Swimmer Jennifer Harding-Marlin is set to become the first athlete to have a case heard by the specially-established Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division at Tokyo 2020 later today as she seeks to secure a universality place at the Olympic Games here.

Getty ImagesSport's highest court opened an Ad Hoc Division to deal with legal disputes and an Anti-Doping


CAS clears ROC swimmers Andrusenko and Kudashev to compete at Tokyo 2020

  • Swimming

Two ROC swimmers who had been charged with anti-doping rule violations by the International Swimming

Kudashev were provisionally suspended by FINA last Wednesday (July 14), on the basis of World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) evidence from its investigation into manipulation of Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory data.However

CAS sole arbitrator Rui Botica Santos dismissed anti-doping rule violations FINA imposed against Andrusenko

expediated hearing held before the Games.Provisional suspensions are optional in cases where an anti-doping

and manipulation of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory data in the "cover-up of the cover-up"."


Wagner wants greater protection for clean athletes after securing new USADA role

  • Olympics

Olympic medallist and former world record holder Allison Wagner has urged the World Anti-Doping Agency

drugs, has been appointed as director for athlete and international relations at the United States Anti-Doping

Agency (USADA) and is determined to fight against doping in sport.USADA says Wagner will oversee its

efforts, work to ensure "effective relationships with key international partners" and "advocate for anti-doping

programme.She developed expertise in international relations and sport governance, as well as anti-doping

organisations including WADA have a “long way to go” to improve transparency when it comes to anti-doping


ROC quadruple sculls team withdrawn from Tokyo 2020 after doping cases

  • Rowing

The Russia Olympic Committee’s (ROC) men’s quadruple sculls team has been withdrawn from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics following the decision to exclude two rowers over positive tests for the banned substance meldonium.

July 27.The Court of Arbitration for Sport halved the four-year sanction implemented by the World Anti-Doping

neutral flag and anthem.The sanction followed the "cover-up of the cover-up" in the state-sponsored doping


Rio 2016 boxing technical official appointed to role for Tokyo 2020 event

  • Boxing

An American who served as a technical official during the corruption-plagued boxing tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has been cleared to hold a position at Tokyo 2020 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) group organising the competition.

Rio 2016 has been launched by Canadian Richard McLaren, the man whose forensic examination of Russian doping


Brazilian weightlifter removed from Tokyo 2020 team after positive test for human growth hormone

  • Weightlifting

Brazilian weightlifter Fernando Reis, who would have been a medal contender in the men’s 109 kilograms super-heavyweight category, is out of the Olympic Games in Tokyo after testing positive for human growth hormone.

recent weeks.This has led to speculation within the sport that the nation had been targeted by anti-doping

authorities based on information received.Reis did not respond to a request for comment, and anti-doping

women’s 49 kilograms category depends on her being cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Anti-Doping

supplement.Figueiredo, 25, had a provisional suspension lifted but a decision on the consequences of her anti-doping

reinforce our commitment with clean sports as we keep several educational initiatives to fight against doping




Tokyo 2020 to deliver final update to IOC Executive Board prior to Olympics

  • Tokyo 2020

Organisers of the delayed Olympic Games here will provide their final update to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board when it holds its first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic hit tomorrow.

by the International Testing Agency laid bare the scale of alleged corruption and tampering with the doping


ITA chief vows to address "gaps" in anti-doping programme for Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

implementation rate of testing recommendations after concluding its eight-month long pre-Olympic Games anti-doping

scheduled to open in a week's time, the ITA announced it has started implementing its on-site anti-doping

programme for the event with the support of Tokyo 2020 and the Japanese Anti-Doping Agency."

The ITA is leading an independent anti-doping programme for the Olympics and set up a pre-Games Expert

Now, very close to the start of the Olympic Games, this first phase of the anti-doping programme has

Agency (WADA) which it followed up with several anti-doping organisations, according to the ITA."


IPC releases doping control guide for Tokyo 2020 to "dispel misconceptions" over testing

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

A doping control guide - which aims to "dispel misconceptions" over testing Para-athletes - has been

The IPC’s Doping Control Guide for Testing Athletes in Para Sport looks to assist anti-doping organisations

that the guide is aligned with Annex A - Modifications for Athletes with Impairments of the World Anti-Doping

 "Doping control officers may experience some trepidation ahead of testing Para athletes - because

James Sclater, anti-doping director for the IPC, claims there are "misconceptions" over testing Para

The IPC looks forward to the first official use of this resource as part of the anti-doping programme


Hearing on enforcement of Rodchenkov Act to take place two days before Tokyo 2020 open

  • Tokyo 2020

A hearing of the Helsinki Commission in the United States on the enforcement of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping

laboratory head in Moscow-turned-whistleblower, the Bill allows the US to prosecute individuals for doping

movement and efforts to reform the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)".The Act gives prosecutors the ability

to seek fines of up to $1 million (£745,000/€825,000) and prison sentences of up to 10 years for doping

conspirators.The World Anti-Doping Agency has expressed its concern with the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping

of an Act was proposed in 2018 by the Helsinki Commission following hearings covering the impact of doping




World 1500m champion Cheruiyot added to Kenyan Olympic team as 18-year-old dropped

  • Athletics

World 1500 metres champion Timothy Cheruiyot, left out of the Kenyan Olympic team after finishing outside the top three qualifying places at last month’s trials, has been added to the squad for Tokyo 2020. 

championship following the country’s placement in category A of the World Athletics and World Anti-Doping