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China’s weightlifting world record holders Deng Wei and Tian Tao out of Tokyo 2020

  • Weightlifting

The Olympic medal chances of athletes from around the world have changed dramatically after China decided not to select Rio 2016 gold medallist Deng Wei, its leading female athlete in the Tokyo 2020 rankings.

nations are restricted to one male and one female, or two males and two females, because of multiple doping

moved up to 87kg for her fourth Olympic Games, having won medals at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 after doping


Exclusive: Weightlifters to appeal court ruling that puts Colombia’s Tokyo 2020 place under threat

  • Weightlifting

Colombia’s entire team of eight weightlifters faces suspension from the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision.

boldenone, an anabolic steroid which is widely used in cattle-rearing throughout Latin America.The anti-doping

today by the International Testing Agency (ITA).At the same time the ITA, which carries out all anti-doping

stand in the forthcoming IWF elections because "it would not be proper" while Colombia is accused of doping

Countries with 100, 200 doping cases have guaranteed quotas to participate in Tokyo."

Colombia has eight cases of doping in 70 years, all of them out of competition."


Ali Iveson: Points to be scored in the stands as transcontinental Euro 2020 begins

  • Inside the Blogs

One year later than planned, UEFA’s European Championship is here, and with the cross-border tournament being played against a backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, points will be scored off as well as on the pitch.

Getting one over on the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is preventing Russia from staging - or being


Life ban for coach means Mexico loses weightlifting places at Tokyo 2020

  • Weightlifting

A lifetime ban for a weightlifting coach has cost Mexico four quota places for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

qualifying.The news comes within two days of Venezuela also losing quota places because of multiple doping

cases are dealt with.So far doping has led to three nations being banned outright from the Olympic Games

by national team athletes as he was charged under Article 2.8 of the IWF’s anti-doping rules, which

ban ©Getty ImagesThe doping violation was not made public until the International Testing Agency (ITA

) took over anti-doping procedures for the IWF.The ITA, which has looked into historic cases as well



Norwegian cross-country skier Jacobsen to replace Randall on IOC Athletes' Commission

  • Olympics

Olympic cross-country skiing gold medallist Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen of Norway is set to become a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after being appointed to replace American Kikkan Randall on the Athletes' Commission.

which included a period where he was frequently attacked by his colleagues in his time as World Anti-Doping


Britain's Tokyo 2020-bound Storey wins 11th road Para cycling world title in Portugal

  • Cycling News

Britain’s most successful Paralympian, Dame Sarah Storey, earned her 11th title at the Para-cycling Road World Championships in Cascais in Portugal today.

rider followed the appropriate processes, and that the International Paralympic Committee, UK Anti-Doping

and the World Anti-Doping Agency have raised no concerns either at the time or since."



Weightlifting doping bans bring bad news for Kazakhstan and Venezuela

  • Weightlifting

Kazakhstan weightlifter who was moved up from fourth to second place at the Olympic Games because of doping

disqualifications by rival athletes will not be awarded a medal - because she is herself suspended for doping

Colombia's Ubaldina Valoyes has now been upgraded to the bronze medal at London 2012 following doping

medals can be undertaken only if the athletes concerned are not currently under suspension for an anti-doping

eighth.Cocos’s forfeit of her medal takes to four the number of Romanians who were disqualified for doping

at London 2012 several years later - the entire team.Romania’s total number of doping violations since


RMPF pairing Lifanov and Kuznetsov win men’s relay at UIPM World Championships in Cairo

  • Modern Pentathlon

Alexander Lifanov and Maxim Kuznetsov, representing the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation (RMPF), won a close men’s relay on the second day of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships in Cairo.

athletes are competing under the RMPF banner under the sanctions imposed on the nation by the World Anti-Doping

Agency in response to state-sponsored doping.


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the strict enforcement of rules and regulations.This includes adherence to the following areas:Anti-doping

partnership with the International Testing Agency in a bid to become compliant with the World Anti-Doping

International Testing Agency (ITA) in November 2020, which will see the ITA independently manage its anti-doping

means that clean and safe sport is a crucial aim.It is hoped the deal will lead to all of GAMMA's anti-doping

rules aligning with those of the World Anti-Doping Agency, as it bids to become a signatory of the World


Partnerships

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means that clean and safe sport is a crucial aim.It is hoped the deal will lead to all of GAMMA's anti-doping

rules aligning with those of the World Anti-Doping Agency, as it bids to become a signatory of the World

2020 ©GAMMA"By signing the agreement we show that the sport of MMA welcomes an independent body for doping

As part of our mandate to fight doping independently, we stand ready to support any organisation with

its anti-doping efforts."


ITA "aware of Tokyo 2020 deadlines" in dealing with weightlifting doping bans

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifters and their National Federations from all parts of the world are waiting on doping-related

which are due to be published on Friday (June 11) by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).Doping

name just a few.A spokesperson for the International Testing Agency (ITA), which oversees all anti-doping

and three more might join them.Egypt are among the countries set to miss Tokyo 2020 due to multiple doping

offences ©Getty ImagesIn December 2019 CAS confirmed a suspension, for multiple doping violations, that

sanctions panel decided that Thailand and Malaysia should also be banned from Tokyo 2020 for multiple doping