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Ban on ex-IAAF President Diack leaving France lifted

  • Athletics

Disgraced former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack could soon leave France, but must first raise €500,000 (£435,000/$605,000).

serve time in prison, however.Diack was convicted on several corruption charges linked to the Russian doping


Weightlifting legend who inspired Arnold Schwarzenegger dies age 85

  • Weightlifting

Yuri Vlasov, one of the all-time greats of weightlifting who later stood against Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev in the first Presidential election in post-Communist Russia, has died aged 85.

lines of poetry before a lift, and in an interview in the 1980s he said: "Words are the best kind of doping


WADA sanctions force Ivanov to resign as Russian Athletics Federation President

  • Athletics

because of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision in the country's case against the World Anti-Doping

crisis for the RusAF, which remains suspended from World Athletics as punishment for the state-sponsored doping

attempt by the former leadership of the Federation, then led by Dmitry Shlyakhtin, to cover-up an anti-doping


IMMAF approves statute changes at Extraordinary General Assembly

  • Mixed Martial Arts

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation's (IMMAF) National Federations have approved changes to the governing body's statutes at a virtual Extraordinary General Assembly today.

In applying to the World Anti-Doping Agency and to the GAISF, we want to demonstrate that we are setting


Hermann and Grotheer win mixed team skeleton gold at IBSF World Championships

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Tina Hermann and Christopher Grotheer doubled their gold medal tally at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships by winning the mixed team skeleton competition in Altenberg.

conditions imposed following the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling in December amid the Russian doping


Shashikhina to lead RUSADA Supervisory Board while Bukhanov acting chief executive tenure could be extended

  • News

Tamara Shashikhina has been named chair of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Supervisory Board,

Vinogradov of the Russian State University for the Humanities, and Sergey Ilyukov, an independent anti-doping

expert recommended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), also feature on the new Board.Vice-president

selected to serve as the vice-chair.Changes to the Supervisory Board were required ahead of the World Anti-Doping

updated Code prohibits representatives from sporting organisations to serve as members of a national anti-doping


Ex-British Cycling doctor Freeman charged by UKAD over two alleged rule violations

  • Cycling

Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman has reportedly been charged by UK Anti-Doping

(UKAD) with two violations of anti-doping rules.

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

control".The latter charge would cover an attempt to subvert any aspect of doping control, including


Dubreuil and Golikova win 500m titles at ISU World Speed Skating Championships

  • Speed Skating

Angelina Golikova and Laurent Dubreuil secured victories in the 500 metres competitions at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, as the hosts earned team pursuit honours.

following restrictions from the Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed in December following the country’s doping


IBU defend implementation of CAS decision after Russian Biathlon Union complaints

  • Biathlon

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has said it is following the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision after the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) complained over the "restriction" of its official name and logo at the Biathlon World Championships.

introduced as part of the two-year sanctions imposed by the CAS decision in its decision in the World Anti-Doping

Agency and Russian Anti-Doping Agency case.A letter was sent by the RBU to the world governing body

The RBU remains a provisional member of the IBU because of the Russian doping scandal.It was demoted


ANOC strips wrestlers Rahmani and Genesis of World Beach Games medals

  • Qatar 2019

Nigeria's Miesinnei Genesis will be stripped of their ANOC World Beach Games medals because of anti-doping

Qatar.ANOC said an in-competition urine sample provided by the Iranian and analysed by the World Anti-Doping

Nigerian wrestler's sample was found to contain the presence of furosemide, a banned diuretic.Two positive doping



IWF needs new name and new rules, say weightlifting election hopefuls Papandrea and Grimseth

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifting’s governing body needs a new name and a new direction, and the sport needs new rules to make it more attractive to spectators, according to two Presidential candidates in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections next month.

administrator.Both he and Papandrea, while acknowledging the urgent need for reform and the prioritising of anti-doping

its failure to give athletes a vote, its refusal to accept independent advice, its weakening of anti-doping

She would review the recent anti-doping rule changes, which the IWF also says it is now doing after criticism


Tretiakov and Lölling lead at halfway mark of skeleton competition at IBSF World Championships

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Alexander Tretiakov could be poised to be one of the first athletes from Russia to win a World Championship title under their neutral status, with the Sochi 2014 Olympic champion leading the men’s skeleton event in Altenberg.

tampering with data from the Moscow Laboratory - halved from the four years proposed by the World Anti-Doping

Sochi 2014 gold medallist, who was stripped and then reinstated as Olympic champion after having a doping



Angry candidates’ complaints expose further flaws in IWF’s timing of weightlifting elections

  • Weightlifting

Candidates from around the world have complained that new rules for the forthcoming International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections are "unworkable, chaotic and impossible to follow in the short time allowed."

Board ignored the views of both Commissions.Mavromati also explained why a 10-year limit on individual doping

and unanimously concluded not to apply a lifetime ban against candidates with any kind of historic doping

benefits from the 10-year limit is Stian Grimseth of Norway, who was controversially suspended for a doping

Grimseth was told live on Norwegian television by David Howman, then general secretary of the World Anti-Doping