The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) has appointed one of its Board members, Stephen Mudawarima, as the new chief executive and secretary general.

stepped down from the position after a nine-year reign.Mudawarima has particular expertise in anti-doping

and is a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency Education Technical Working Group-Global Learning Development

Framework, as well as being a licensed doping control officer.He has worked on assignments at the Rio

In addition to his extensive Sports Admin and Anti-Doping experience, Stephen is also a trained ICT professional

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has revealed Olympic champion Oleg Verniaiev is provisionally suspended "until the end of the procedure that is currently in progress".

 When asked whether the suspension was related to a doping suspension, Sartinsky did not rule it

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) is today celebrating the 25th anniversary of its formation in 1996.

Committee.Russian athletes were forced to compete under a neutral banner at Pyeongchang 2018.The World Anti-Doping

The Russian Handball Federation Team is seeking a return to past glories during the 2021 International Handball Federation (IHF) World Men's Handball Championship in Egypt later this month.

after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld sanctions imposed on Russia by the World Anti-Doping

launched in Russia after a host of athletes withdrew from a biathlon event following the arrival of doping

The Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) are looking into the circumstances

nbsp;"In any case, withdrawal from the competition does not relieve an athlete from control by anti-doping

 "All of them are available for doping tests now and were available in Tchaikovsky and Izhevsk."

The development will raise concern over doping in Russian biathlon, which has long plagued the sport

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

Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) President Giovanni Malagò has warned the risk of the country's flag and anthem being banned at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo is "very high" due to potential Government interference. 

Russian flag and anthem will be absent from Tokyo 2020, although this is due to sanctions imposed for doping

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) general secretary, Beng Choo Low, has praised the governing body's work in 2020 with the creation of the WBSC Integrity Unit.

rules, regulations, processes and procedures to safeguard our sport, athletes and officials against doping

It was pointed out by our editor Duncan Mackay that yesterday marked the anniversary that I joined insidethegames back in 2015, alongside my colleague Liam Morgan.

difficult preparations for Rio 2016, North Korea firing missiles prior to Pyeongchang 2018, the worst doping

athlete involvement in decision making will help solve the ills of sporting bodies and the World Anti-Doping

Denise Betsema triumphed at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Cyclo-Cross World Cup in Hulst as Lucinda Brand sealed victory in the overall series.

throughout the remainder of the contest.Betsema, who in January 2020 received a back-dated six-month doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has issued a reminder to all stakeholders that the 2021 World Anti-Doping

From Friday (January 1), the Code, new International Standards, and the Athletes' Anti-Doping Rights

stakeholder consultation process, were approved on November 7 2019 during WADA's World Conference on Doping

policies, rules and regulations within anti-doping organisations (ADOs) around the world.

 "Beyond harmonising and coordinating anti-doping programmes worldwide, its purpose is to protect

athletes’ fundamental right to participate in doping-free sport and to promote health, fairness and

The former chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has defended

system again in the future, and so give confidence to athletes and other stakeholders that the anti-doping

A Grenadian sprinter who is serving a four-year ban for avoiding a drugs test has been suspended for another three years for whereabouts failures.

months.But it also doubled the length of the ban - from 18 months to three years - because of his first anti-doping

Competition on April 13 2019, when Taplin won the 400m.He then reportedly left the stadium without completing doping

to compete on the grounds that he had not been properly notified that he had been selected for the doping

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed an amendment to the country's anti-doping bill to bring it

in line with World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regulations.

Kenyatta penned the amendment yesterday, a day before the new World Anti-Doping Code came into effect.According

to the President's official Twitter account, the new law "amends the Anti-Doping Act of 2016 to

align Kenya's legislative framework with the 2021 World Anti-Doping code and regulations".It also "ensures

31, 2020Kenya introduced criminal laws as part of the Anti-Doping Act of 2016, granting officials the

Kenya, while it made doping an offence which could be punished by imprisonment.Kenya has had a poor

The 2021 European Universities Games is set to be the largest edition of the event to date, organisers claim.

Games.Sitting volleyball will additionally be a demonstration sport.A Rectors' Conference and workshops on anti-doping

Next Saturday (January 9) marks one year since the opening of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.

be remiss of me not to mention a few other stories that have hit the headlines in 2020.The Russian doping