USA Weightlifting (USAW) chief executive Phil Andrews has created a new online platform to enable clubs to connect with members as preparations ramp up ahead of this year’s re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo. 

sessions focusing on a wide range of topics including nutrition, mental health, sports psychology, anti-doping

The African Weightlifting Championships have been postponed again less than three weeks before they were due to start, adding further confusion to the qualifying programme for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Olympics ©Mona PretoriusIn the absence of Egypt, which is suspended from Tokyo 2020 because of multiple doping

restoration of the Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) scheme - which allows Russian competitors who meet anti-doping

million (£4.8 million/€5.32 million) fine would be paid.It stemmed from the obstruction of an anti-doping

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) anthem is expected to be used in lieu of the Russian national anthem at IIHF World Championships this year, with teams to play under the Russian Olympic Committee flag.

both the Men's World Championship in Latvia and Women's World Championship in Canada under World Anti-Doping

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) and Asian National Federations discussed issues in boxing on the continent during the latest virtual forum.

event calendar, the development plan for Asia and the communication strategy were on the agenda.An anti-doping

on a unified approach to the organisation of competitions, training, communication, legal and anti-doping

The Russian Football Union (RFU) has confirmed FIFA is investigating three potential doping violations

cooperate with FIFA over his alleged case ©Getty Images"I received a notification from FIFA that my doping

The test itself was destroyed by the Moscow anti-doping laboratory."

World Cup in Russia had seen the sport’s governing body come under pressure to investigate potential doping

cases, amid the alleged state-sponsored doping programme outlined in the McLaren Report.The entire Russian

Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) President Ben Nunoo Mensah has applauded the appointment of Mustapha Ussif as the country’s Minister of Youth and Sports as preparations continue for the 2023 African Games.

member of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa Development Commission and World Anti-Doping

No anti-doping violations were detected in floorball in 2020, the International Floorball Federation

growth hormone-releasing factors, ensuring that the five per cent target laid out in the World Anti-Doping

tests ©Getty Images"The amount of doping controls was significantly lower than originally planned due

There were still some tests conducted during the year, and the Anti-Doping Organisations are following

the COVID-19 testing guidelines published by the World Anti-Doping Agency."

In 2019, there were 54 IFF-initiated anti-doping tests and 39 out-of-competition tests.The 2018 total

Fewer than four in 10 European National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) had amended their rules in

line with the new World Anti-Doping Code by the time it came into effect last January.

This is in spite of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) badgering them to do so since November 2019.Europe

concerns in the sports movement that Governments are in danger of backsliding in their commitment to anti-doping

may turn out to be a Summer Olympic year.WADA said that 93 signatories which did not have "2021 anti-doping

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on both signatories’ anti-doping programs and WADA’s compliance

To mark my last day at insidethegames, I wrote down every trip I embarked on during my two-and-a-half years with the company.

 Writing about doping allegations, governance issues, corruption or abuse cases is a common occurrence

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Council is set to hold its next meeting in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday (March 16 and 17).

Council.Moscow is set to play host despite Russia, and sanctions imposed on the country by the World Anti-Doping

representative.Russian Government representatives cannot sit on any Board or Committee of a signatory of the World Anti-Doping

International Testing Agency (ITA) chair Valérie Fourneyron is "confident" of a "robust anti-doping programme

The ITA claims it is leading the most extensive pre-Games anti-doping programme ever implemented.

 In collaboration with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA

), International Federations (IFs) and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs), the ITA is working

 In comparison, the pre-Games anti-doping programme for Rio 2016 had started one month before the

 These recommendations have already triggered additional doping controls, resulting in more than

Another International Federation looks set to keep its World Championships in Russia, despite the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ordering them to move major events due to be held before December 2022 out of the country.

The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) is to inform the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Russia’s request to use the folk song "Katyusha" as a replacement for its national anthem at the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.

January.The ban on the national anthem is part of the sanctions imposed on Russia by the World Anti-Doping

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session has unanimously approved the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 strategic plan that is set to shape the direction of the organisation in Thomas Bach's last four years as President.

reputation of which even Bach has admitted has suffered in recent years owing to a series of corruption and doping