Nine VIPs - go on, count them - appended comments to a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) media release

plain-speaking, punctilious and immensely knowledgeable Canadian lawyer.Richard Pound has left the World Anti-Doping

from sport and beyond who have paid tribute to Richard Pound, who has stepped down from the World Anti-Doping

capacities over more than two decades.Notably, he oversaw the drafting and implementation of the World Anti-Doping

had "made a great contribution for the protection of clean athletes by fighting vigorously against doping

Code, the forerunner of the World Anti-Doping Code."

system we have today".Richard Pound led a 2015 WADA Independent Commission investigation into Russian doping

Christiane Ayotte, long one of the world’s pre-eminent anti-doping laboratory directors, remarked shrewdly

Senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Richard Pound has warned any issues with recent legislation passed in the United States could "bubble up" ahead of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

IOC may consider it a violation of the Olympic Charter.The US has also clashed with the World Anti-Doping

ImagesThe US Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) threatened to pull its funding from global anti-doping

One of the leading supporters of an overhaul of the way weightlifting is governed has reacted with dismay to the first news of a candidate in the forthcoming International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections.

Intarat Yodbangtoey, whose nation is banned from the Olympic Games because of its doping record and whose

2018 IWF World Championships test positive, and featured prominently in a German TV documentary about doping

2016 gold medallist Sopita Tanasan is among several Thai weightlifters to have been sanctioned for doping

London 2012 Olympic high jump champion and convicted drugs cheat Anna Chicherova has reversed her decision to retire for a second time.

Chicherova, stripped of her Olympic bronze medal from Beijing 2008 and her 2009 world silver medal for doping

The Russian was stripped of her Beijing 2008 Olympic bronze medal for doping ©Getty ImagesChicherova's

athletes to compete following the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation.The Russian was caught doping

Former world junior 800 metres champion Alfred Kipketer of Kenya has been banned for two years after he missed four drugs tests within a 12-month period.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed Kipketer accepted he had committed an anti-doping rule violation

the 800m at the 2015 World Championships, is among the more than 60 Kenyan athletes who are serving doping

banned, as is Elijah Manangoi, who succeeded him in 2017.Kenya is in the AIU's highest risk category for doping

medallist Luvo Manyonga is the latest high-profile athlete who could face a suspension following an anti-doping

Unit (AIU) for a whereabouts failure.This violation comes after Manyonga reportedly missed three anti-doping

failure ©Getty ImagesBahrain's Salwa Eid Naser has been cleared over a whereabouts failure due to a doping

Dayana Yastremska, the world number 29 in the women’s tennis rankings has been provisionally suspended after a banned substance, mesterolone, was found in an out-of-competition sample.

which came into force today.Yastremska tested positive on November 24 2020 and was charged with an anti-doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has launched its Anti-Doping Education and Learning platform (ADEL

), with the improved programme expected to significantly advance anti-doping education.

The organisation said the ADEL is an improved version of the current Anti-Doping e-Learning platform,

.The WADA says the upgraded platform will provide education and learning opportunities for the anti-doping

opportunities to help them carry out their role and resources to support development of their anti-doping

WADA recognises the power of education to its mission for doping-free sport," said Olivier Niggli, WADA

programmes that include education as a core function by Anti-Doping Organisations.

the withdrawal of 33 junior competitors after they pulled out of an event following the arrival of doping

races.Concerns had been raised after 12 girls and 21 boys withdrew from the sprints, allegedly after doping

control officers arrived at the event.The RBU and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency are investigating the

I want to emphasise that all athletes who retired from the races were open to doping control.

preparing the schedule for the next season," he added.The mass withdrawal sparked renewed concerns over doping

country.The RBU remains a provisional member of the International Biathlon Union because of the Russian doping

And so Summer Olympic and Paralympic year has dawned. For the second year running.

the various vaccines athletes are likely to have taken will have no bearing on the chemistry of anti-doping

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has admitted the organisation is in talks with countries which could replace Belarus as co-host for this year's Men's World Championship.

but it would no longer be permitted to do so under sanctions imposed on the country by the World Anti-Doping

The Athletes' Village for this year's World University Games in Chengdu is set to be ready by April.

of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and Torch Relay, and the roll-out of a "zero-tolerance" anti-doping

British indoor rower Robert Strachan has been suspended for four years after an anti-doping rule violation

issued with a four-year ban backdated to the start of his provisional suspension on March 20 2020.The doping

 "British Rowing takes a very clear stance on anti-doping and we are hugely disappointed that an

indoor rower from the United Kingdom has been found guilty of a significant anti-doping rule violation

International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) President Vladimir Lisin has met with member federations from all five continental regions, offering updates to the 2021 calendar in the virtual sessions.

includes these dates, as part of a package of sanctions levied against the country by the World Anti-Doping