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Former British Cycling doctor Freeman struck off medical register

  • Cycling

Former British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman has been permanently struck off the medical register in Britain.

with "possession of a prohibited substance" and "tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping

control" by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD).The latter charge would cover an attempt to subvert any aspect of

doping control, including an investigation.Freeman has alleged he was bullied into ordering the testosterone


Coe warns Italy not to be on "wrong side of history" following Schwazer doping clearance

  • Athletics

on the "wrong side of history" after a court cleared Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer of doping

tampered with to show up a positive result.Schwazer was given the lengthy ban as it was his second doping

had initially given negative results, but a new analysis revealed traces of steroids.The World Anti-Doping

of a World Race Walking Team Championships title won in Rome in 2016 as a result of the second anti-doping


Thailand’s doping scandal weightlifting coach is charged and suspended

  • Weightlifting

The coach of the Thailand women’s weightlifting team that lost three world titles in a doping scandal

in 2018 has been charged with a doping offence and provisionally suspended.

is the second high-profile coach to have been suspended under Articles 2.8 and 2.9 of the IWF’s Anti-Doping

his case is being dealt with by the International Testing Agency.Thailand, which also featured in a doping

and 55kg.Liu Ning, the coach of the Thailand women's national team that lost three world titles in a doping

Rule Violations under Article 2.8 of the IWF Anti-Doping Policy."

The provisional suspension imposed remains in effect in view of the potential anti-doping rule violation


Graham re-elected Cook Islands NOC President

  • ONOC

Hugh Graham has been re-elected President of the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) at the organisation's Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Oceania National Olympic Committee Medical Commission.Puni also chairs the Cook Islands Medical and Anti-Doping


ISSF Executive Committee agrees 2022 World Championships should remain in Russia

  • Shooting

The ISSF Executive Committee has agreed it will be "impossible" to strip Russia of next year's World Shooting Championships, paving the way for the event to remain in the country despite the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling.

complex in Ignatovo.Under the terms of the range of punishments imposed on Russia by the World Anti-Doping

Olympic Games is the most severe punishment available to WADA for non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping



Russia to offer voluntary vaccines to country's athletes prior to Tokyo 2020

  • Russian Sport

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has said Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the country should be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines on a voluntary basis.

Olympic Committee last month in relation to the implementation of sanctions imposed on the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency by the World Anti-Doping Agency.COVID-19 vaccinations for athletes have been one of the main


World Athletics Council opens Tokyo 2020 door for Russian athletes by reinstating Authorised Neutral Athletes scheme

  • Russian Sport

The World Athletics Council today agreed to reinstate the Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) scheme, suspended since last March, allowing individual Russian competitors to qualify for this summer’s scheduled Tokyo 2020 Games.

The scheme - which allows Russian athletes who meet anti-doping criteria to take part in international

their eventual return.RusAF faced expulsion from World Athletics last year for obstructing an anti-doping

As a result of that decision  the Doping Review Board will start accepting applications for ANA


Coe claims he went out of his way to keep competitive options open for DSD athletes

  • Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has defended the decision his Federation took over athletes with differences in sexual development (DSD), claiming he had sought to keep competitive options open in the female category even though a different alternative may have been open to him.

decision taken in 2016 to ban Russian athletes competing in the wake of the scandal over organised doping


World Athletics President claims days of power-gathering governance "are over"

  • Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said that the creation of the fully independent Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) is one of his proudest achievements, adding that devolving rather than hugging power is the way forward for all sporting organisations.

The AIU was established in 2017 and is responsible for the management of all aspects of the anti-doping

But we had had a grotesque intrusion into doping violations by Russia, not uniquely Russia but on this

Because we are not just dealing with anti-doping."

I think I recognised early on, as did the reform group, that if you have anti-doping an issue, you almost

So it was exactly the same way I have always said that the AIU when it comes anti-doping violations will


Exclusive: Weightlifters could have "virtual" qualifying option for Tokyo 2020 under new plan

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifters whose Olympic qualifying hopes have suffered because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be helped by the creation of two new events in May - one live and one virtual.

changes to the calendar would also compel all athletes to provide their whereabouts information to anti-doping

fairness, certainty, and opportunity for eligible athletes", as well as strengthening the approach to anti-doping

no competitions for so long, hundreds of athletes have been tested only if their own national anti-doping

regulations would be "wrong and high-risk" say the new plan’s authors, who point out that the IWF’s anti-doping


Final Tokyo 2020 table tennis places claimed at World Singles Qualification Tournament

  • Table Tennis

Thailand's Suthasini Sawettabut and Kirill Skachkov of Russia sealed the last available places in the table tennis competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the World Singles Qualification Tournament in Doha.

Committee team at Tokyo 2020 owing to the sanctions imposed on Russia as punishment for the state-sponsored doping



IIHF sets deadline for Presidential candidates as Tretiak leaves Council

  • Ice Hockey

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has set a deadline of June 15 for officials to submit their candidacy to succeed René Fasel as President of the worldwide governing body.

Russia (FHR) President Vladislav Tretiak has resigned from the IIHF Council in line with the World Anti-Doping

Government representative cannot hold sit on any board or committee at a signatory of the World Anti-Doping