Alexander Loginov earned his first win of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup season after triumphing in the men's individual race in Antholz-Anterselva.

with the sprint title his first gold.The World Championships also saw Italian police conduct an anti-doping

mass start competition following the raid, where his phone and laptop were taken.He served a two-year doping

I work in the sport integrity industry. I say industry because, as sport has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry itself, this has urged the need to maintain a sense of fairness and protect sport’s integrity. One of the reasons I work in this industry is because I love sport. Sport brings people together, transcending social, cultural, religious and language boundaries. It teaches young people to exercise and use their body, to train and compete, to win and lose, to be determined and focused, to cooperate with other people, to set goals and work hard to reach them and many other...

it’s one set of rules for society and another for international sport.The Institute of National Anti-Doping

Organisations has more than 60 member national anti-doping organisations ©Getty ImagesTake, for example

, the Russian doping scandal that developed, exploded and has continually simmered over the course of

This scandal revealed not only the biggest doping plot since the East German doping regime, but it also

We also have the judiciary body of the global anti-doping system named: The Court of Arbitration for

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has moved it's two-day Constitutional Congress back by a month, but will go ahead with elections as planned in the last week of March.

critical importance of continuing reforms within the IWF in order to ensure the independence of its anti-doping

The new President of Germany’s Weightlifting Federation (BVDG) is standing against Intarat Yodbangtoey of Thailand for one of the most senior roles in the sport.

for a seat on the Executive Board.Intarat, whose national body is banned from Tokyo 2020 because of doping

his time at the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA), Thailand has been involved in three doping

at stake ©Getty ImagesThis week the International Testing Agency (ITA), which now oversees all anti-doping

We must not give doping and banned nations a chance to destroy our sport."

I stand absolutely for clean, doping-free and corruption-free sport."

medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, is one of the first two weightlifters ever to be charged with a doping

International Testing Agency (ITA), the body that has laid the charge.Based on evidence from the World Anti-Doping

any of that "period of time" preceded the Olympic Games in August.He served a two-year suspension for doping

positives from the IOC's retesting of samples from London 2012.As the focus on doping in weightlifting

The IWF began delegating major parts of its anti-doping program to the ITA in early 2019.

programme, including results management and investigation of potential anti-doping rule violations."

the arbitrator were objectively justified" as it explained the reasoning for lifting the eight-year doping

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has approved the introduction of the Anti-Doping

green light by the governing body's Executive Board.It looks to ensure athletes rights within anti-doping

are clear, accessible and universally applicable.The document also adheres to the new World Anti-Doping

Code, introduced by the World Anti-Doping Agency on January 1."

IMMAF athletes are fully engaged with clean and fair mixed martial arts (MMA)," added IMMAF's anti-doping

consultant and Anti-Doping Commission chairwoman Michele Verroken."

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has retrospectively shortened bans for athletes who are suspended due to recreational

The new World Anti-Doping Code - introduced at the start of January - has taken a more lenient approach

for future anti-doping violations in relation to recreational drug use.The most common positive substances

Traynor was one of six athletes to have their bans reduced by UKAD ©Getty Images"Should we, the anti-doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the international rules-based regulator of doping in sport," added

UKAD, as the UK's national anti-doping organisation, must ensue compliance with the [WADA] Code."

A decision on the hosting of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships is "likely to be made" in the next few days, according to the organisation’s President Rene Fasel.

major events until December 2022 under the series of sanctions imposed on the nation by the World Anti-Doping

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has supported a proposal put forward by the Russian Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission to replace the country's national anthem at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with the song Katyusha.

and Beijing 2022.The ban on the anthem is part of the sanctions imposed on Russia by the World Anti-Doping

victories at the Games.The OAR team was created following the suspension of the ROC due to the nation's doping

Turkish marathon runners and steeplechasers who achieve the qualifying time for this year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are set to train in Ethiopia in the lead-up to the event.

Aslı Çakır Alptekin and Gamze Bulut, first and second, respectively, were stripped of their medals for doping

The International Surfing Association (ISA) has established a Medical Commission as part of its efforts to protect the health and welfare of athletes amid the global health crisis.

main objectives it hopes to fulfill, including ensuring "excellent healthcare, medical services and doping

The commission will be key in improving and fortifying our medical services, healthcare standards and doping

doctor Mark Schmidt has been jailed for four years and eight months for running an international blood doping

had been on trial in Munich alongside four co-defendants.He was found guilty of 24 counts of using doping

methods and given prohibited substances to athletes.He claimed he had not initiated the doping network

meeting demand, having received requests from athletes.It was one of the first major cases since anti-doping

years in prison earlier this week, with 16 months suspended.Austrian skier Johannes Dürr, whose blood doping

Seefeld in Austria and in the German city Erfurt.Around 40 blood bags and other items associated with doping

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Athletes’ Commission has proposed the folk song “Katyusha" to replace the country’s national anthem at the Olympic Games.

banner.The OAR team was created following the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee in the wake of the doping

Ursula Papandrea has announced her intent to regain the leadership of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and made a damning condemnation of a "toxic culture of corruption" within the organisation.

Board’s members are from nations that cannot send full teams to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of doping

last April when she replaced long-serving President Tamás Aján, who resigned after revelations about doping

processes and ensuring independent and external anti-doping oversight, with no IWF involvement, to create

co-ordinate and assist member federations in coaching, in nurturing technical officials, and in anti-doping

I have a non-negotiable stance on doping and want strict anti-doping policies in place."