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Athletes slam "shameful" conditions at African Weightlifting Championships

  • Weightlifting

Athletes at the African Weightlifting Championships in Nairobi, Kenya say the organisation and training conditions are the worst they have seen and that the event has been "shameful" for the sport.

absence of Egypt, the continent’s powerhouse which is suspended from the Olympic Games for multiple doping


Weightlifting glory for Russia and Moldova at Junior World Championships

  • Weightlifting

Moldova won its first ever junior world title and Russia was on top of the podium at this level for the first time in six years on day six of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

which have undergone rebuilding programmes for a clean future after being dragged down by historic doping

about Paris 2024.He said the reform strategy, which included kicking out athletes and coaches from the doping

We have changed, and the most important thing is our medals are doping-free," he said after Bratu’s landmark



Vietnam’s Olympic weightlifting medal contenders face ban as ITA calls in sanctions panel

  • Weightlifting

medals at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are likely to miss their chance because of multiple doping

announced that it has asked an independent panel to impose sanctions on Vietnam because it has had four doping

depending on how long an independent panel takes to impose sanctions on the country in connection with doping

panel had been called upon to deliberate on Romania in February, it said the case was grounded on five doping

According to the IWF Anti-Doping Rules (Article 12), Member Federations can be suspended, fined and/or

Romanian weightlifters have been suspended or provisionally suspended, awaiting closure, 17 times for doping



Onbasi tops women's qualification at Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Turkey’s Ayse Onbasi topped women’s individual qualification on the opening day of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships in Baku.

Gymnastics Federation, under the terms of the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision in the Russian Anti-Doping


WADA confirms Independent Observer teams for Olympics and Paralympics

  • Tokyo 2020

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced the make-up of its Independent Observer teams for this

confidence in both athletes and the public as to the quality, effectiveness and reliability" of anti-doping

schemes.The teams consist of specialists from WADA and anti-doping organisations which are set to observe

of the programme.Test distribution plans, selection of competitors for testing and notification of doping

 WADA director general Olivier Niggli said "important improvements" have been made to the anti-doping

system is strengthened by the whole anti-doping community working together in a collaborative manner


Mehalhel retains control of Weightlifting Federation of Africa

  • Weightlifting

Khaled Mehalhel has been re-elected for a third term as President of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA).

I would like to call on the athletes to change their mentality and abhor doping, to have a mind shift

contenders in Tokyo, and Egypt would have had medal contenders but for being suspended for multiple doping


Kiprop plans legal challenge to Athletics Kenya ban on past doping offenders representing country

  • Athletics

four-year drugs ban, says he will mount a legal challenge to Athletics Kenya's (AK) policy prohibiting past doping

named as Olympic 1500m champion at the Beijing 2008 Games after the original winner was banned for doping

he will go to court for the right to represent Kenya again, once he has served his current four-year doping

their respective events".When he was banned, Kiprop, who claimed he had been asked for money from a doping

the case against Kiprop had been "convincingly made out".Numerous other Kenyans are currently serving doping



Weightlifting world record for Ukraine’s Konotop - but no guarantee of Olympic place

  • Weightlifting

Kamila Konotop of Ukraine set a junior world record on the way to her second major victory within two months, but she is still not guaranteed a place at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

that Ukraine will have to leave one of its female Olympic medal contenders at home.Because of past doping

191kg.So far 17 nations have suffered suspension or restrictions on team quotas for Tokyo because of past doping


ITA and Tokyo 2020 sign five-way cooperation agreement with Government bodies for Olympics

  • Tokyo 2020

signed an agreement with Tokyo 2020 and three Japanese Government organisations to work together on anti-doping

The ITA will monitor anti-doping operations with the support of Tokyo 2020 and the Japan Anti-Doping

the trafficking of banned substances.All signatories have vowed to take a zero-tolerance approach to doping

We are delighted to conclude this five-party agreement covering anti-doping for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

In previous years, the problem of doping has cast a shadow not only across the Olympic and Paralympic

I believe mutual cooperation forms a very important part of any anti-doping policy."