Ryan Crouser provided the newly rebuilt Hayward Field in Oregon with a world shot put record of 23.37 metres that felt almost inevitable on the opening day of the United States Track and Field Olympic trials.

issued a statement saying: "All Member Federations must respect CAS decisions under the world anti-doping

Paralympic Committee, together with USATF, can confirm that we will adhere to the WADA (World Anti-Doping

The Federation of International Bandy (FIB) has announced its upcoming World Championships will take place in Russia, after the events were approved as exceptions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) sanctions.

event next year.Both dates fall within the window of the two-year CAS decision on the Russian Anti-Doping

such as World Championships for two years under sanctions levied against the country by the World Anti-Doping

South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga, who overcame a crystal meth addiction before going on to win the 2017 long jump world title in London, has received a four-year ban for whereabouts failures.

years has been doubled by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) because this is Manyonga’s second anti-doping

with the hearing process and declined several opportunities to attend a hearing last month.He a missed doping

Filing failures are when an athlete supplies inaccurate or insufficient information which means anti-doping

carry out the drugs test.Three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping

Spectators will be allowed - within COVID-19 guidelines - at the World Para Ice Hockey Championship due to start in Ostrava tomorrow.

COVID-19 pandemic.Italy face Norway and the "neutral" Russian team - who will compete as RPC because of doping

Romania has been banned from weightlifting for a year because of multiple doping violations, and cannot

outright from Tokyo - Thailand, Egypt and Malaysia.Colombia and Vietnam, both of which have had three doping

were rebuffed.The Romanians were liable to punishment for two offences, first for having three or more doping

was the more serious of the two, the Panel said in a 29-page ruling.The case was based on the five doping

citing lack of evidence, that the Romanian Weightlifting Federation (FRH) "constantly transmitted anti-doping

number of other conditions.One of them was "to accept public responsibility to change the culture of doping

Global testing figures are continuing to rise as Anti-Doping Organisations (ADOs) worldwide are returning

to normal despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced.

: "The rise of testing numbers around the world represents a significant effort on the part of Anti-Doping

With just over a month to go before the start of the Olympic Games, Anti-Doping Organisations are in

recommendations to all the Summer Olympic International Federations and National and Regional Anti-Doping

I would also like to remind all Anti-Doping Organisations that the International Olympic Committee (IOC

it is a requirement under the 2021 International Standard for Testing and Investigations that Anti-Doping

Highly-regarded lawyer Richard McLaren has vowed to "uncover the truth" after being tasked with investigating sexual abuse allegations in Mali that resulted in the head of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) stepping aside.

investigation into allegations of corruption in weightlifting and his explosive report into the state-sponsored doping

My first vivid memory of watching athletics on television was at 12 - oddly around two years after I first laced up a pair of spikes - but it was one that will stick in the mind for years to come.

great athletes of the late 2000s to mid-2010s have since been linked to or outright banned for anti-doping

allowed former International Association of Athletics Federations President Lamine Diack to cover up doping

the fact due to the retesting of samples.At the same time, top athletes are facing increasing anti-doping

before - whether what they did was intentional or a mistake.Shelby Houlihan was handed a four-year doping

education, but it still has a serious issue with doping that is not being highlighted enough compared

1500 metres and 5,000m, is set to miss the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after she was given a four-year doping

approximately 10 hours before the drug test.Houlihan claimed it has "long been understood by the World Anti-Doping

The anti-doping agency experts I have reached out to say they should have."

One of Bulgaria’s two weightlifters at the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo may have to forfeit his place after a fellow member of the national team was charged with refusing to give a sample to testers.

) targeted him for an out-of-competition testing mission.The ITA, which formally took over all anti-doping

(IWF) last October, said that when he was located, Beytula "refused to provide a sample during the doping

control".Beytula has now been charged with two violations of IWF anti-doping rules: Article 2.3 [evading

violations in the IWF’s qualifying rules - it will take Bulgaria to 20 doping offences since the 2008

in weightlifting by anti-doping authorities.

Kazakhstan has started celebrating Olympic Day with a series of activities across the country.

feature.Alexander Vinokourov, the London 2012 men’s road race gold medallist after returning from a two-year doping

Richard McLaren, the man whose forensic examination of Russian doping has led to the country being banned

investigating misconduct in sport, including the 2016 investigation into allegations of state-sponsored doping

by Russia and the 2020 investigation into financial fraud doping irregularities within the International

I’m not proud of this, but such were my ungovernable emotions after watching England try and try and fail to earn the win over Poland required to reach the 1974 World Cup finals that I stomped out into the night and walked blindly until I found myself up by the posh houses in Chalfont Lane.

Lausanne, covering athletics, that most civilised of sports - give or take a bit of state-sponsored doping

Swimmer Mack Horton has agonisingly missed out on the chance to defend his Olympic title after failing to make the Australian squad for Tokyo 2020.

the 2019 International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships.Sun, who served a three-month doping

for his protest by FINA.The World Championships were held around six months after news of the latest doping

infraction by Sun emerged.Australia had also been accused of hypocrisy in its stance on doping following

series of discriminatory tweets.Sun faced a second hearing at the CAS last month with the World Anti-Doping

champion and record holder Roland Ezuruike has been hit with an 18-month ban for committing an anti-doping

required to make whereabouts filings in order to be located for out of competition testing.The IPC Anti-Doping

failures within a 12-month period" by an athlete in a registered testing pool shall be considered an anti-doping