The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has revealed new uniforms for the "neutral" Russian national team that will compete at upcoming World Championships and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

said the designs comply with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision in the Russian Anti-Doping

include the flag, crest or other symbols of the Russian Federation.The CAS halved the period where the doping

A little under three weeks from now the Gateshead International Stadium will live up to its name as of old when it hosts the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.

, was retrospectively banned for a second doping offence.Whatever, Powell’s time on that blazing day

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang could still compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, despite being left off the entry list for Chinese National Championships.

Sun, who is facing a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing later this month in a long-running doping

International Swimming Federation (FINA) had initially let Sun off with a warning, but the World Anti-Doping

Claude Marshall, sport coordinator for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and a Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) Board member, emphasised the vital importance of sport to refugees at the first World Taekwondo-International University Sports Federation (FISU) University Sport and Peace Forum.

chair.Choue and Oleg Matytsin, who has temporarily stepped aside as FISU President because of World Anti-Doping

Athlete empowerment, punishments for multiple doping violations, and age and term limits for Executive

out the IWF’s anti-doping procedures) and dealt with according to the Anti-Doping Policy," said the

problems.USAW proposes that any nation with more than four doping violations in a rolling four-year

period should be suspended, and that nations with one to four doping cases should have restrictions on

, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the ITA.The International Testing Agency says the threshold

, and questioned whether "systemic doping" need be a provision in the Constitution when sanctions for

Hosts the Czech Republic will take on Paralympic bronze medallists South Korea in the opening match of this year's World Para Ice Hockey Championship in Ostrava.

tournament ©Getty ImagesItaly face Norway and the Russian team - who will compete as RPC because of doping

Russian Draughts Federation (DFR) President Anatoly Nikitin has called for the World Draughts Federation (FMJD) to conduct an internal investigation into the flag controversy at the Women's World Draughts Championships.

Russians are required to compete at World Championships as neutral athletes at events run by World Anti-Doping

WADA) signatories.This followed the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision in the Russian Anti-Doping

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov, a key figure in the launching of the first European Games in Baku in 2015, has died at the age of 56, it was announced tonight.

series of record-breaking Olympic performances - but they were often overshadowed by allegations of doping

as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) for the 2021 season following approval from the World Athletics Doping

Rules, while the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) remains suspended.Russian athletes who meet anti-doping

state-sponsored doping.RusAF faced expulsion from World Athletics last year for obstructing an anti-doping

ANA status, but it must prioritise athletes who are in the International Registered Testing Pool.The Doping

during the Women's World Draughts Championships to avoid facing a potential sanction from the World Anti-Doping

Russians are required to compete at World Championships as neutral athletes at events run by World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) signatories due to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision in the Russian Anti-Doping

Championships to remind the organisation of their responsibility to implement the CAS decision.The anti-doping

All Signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code, including the FMJD, are bound by the terms of the CAS

decision of December 2020 to declare the Russian Anti-Doping Agency non-compliant with the Code and impose

There is no doubt these are testing times in more ways than one as organisers aim to stage a safe and clean Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Testing Agency (ITA), established by the IOC in 2018, will be responsible for carrying out the anti-doping

I have only met athletes who 100 per cent support what we do in the fight against doping."

the responsibility of collecting blood and urine samples fell on the shoulders of the National Anti-Doping

The ITA, working in collaboration with the IOC, IFs, NADOs and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), had

Our mission is to kick doping out of sport," said Cohen."

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has admitted the country are disappointed by the absence of the national anthem from Tokyo 2020, but claim success for their athletes will "compensate."

Beijing 2022 as neutrals due to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision in the Russian Anti-Doping

Katyusha, considered to have been directly associated with Russia, which would be in breach of the doping

Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska remains ineligible to compete after her latest appeal to lift a provisional suspension was denied, it has been confirmed.

Russian combat sambist Artur Poleyan has been banned for four years after he tested positive for a banned substance.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) confirmed the sanction against Poleyan, who has been suspended

The All-Russian Sambo Federation, following the decision by Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee RAA RUSADA

made athlete Artur Poleyan ineligible for four years for violation of art. 2.1 of the All-Russian Anti-Doping

France has finally moved to bring its anti-doping rules into line with the new World Anti-Doping Code

national law.The move comes in the wake of the dispatch of a Corrective Action Report by the World Anti-Doping

laboratory, which until now has been attached to the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD), to the University

said to be in line with the demand that labs be entirely independent.Of the 53 European National Anti-Doping

Organisations, 39 are now "confirmed as being in line" with the World Anti-Doping Code ©Getty ImagesFrance

November 2019.Last month, insidethegames revealed that fewer than four in 10 European National Anti-Doping