Maxim Agapitov saw off the challenge of his rivals - including Olympic silver medallist Dmitry Klokov - to win the Presidency of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (FTAR) for a second term.

was in a desperate place, having been banned from the Rio Olympic Games that year because of its bad doping

record.Since then there has been a ceaseless stream of suspensions for historic doping offences, either

samples, or based on data taken from the Moscow Laboratory during investigations into state-supported doping

in Russian sport.The final tally of Russian doping positives since the Beijing 2008 Olympics could be

Because of doping, [Russian] weightlifting could not take part in the 2016 Olympics, but now we are an

There has not been a lot of opportunity for new experiences this year, given much of the world’s population has spent the majority of 2020 living under restrictive measures.

the logistical issues, such as the difficulty in ensuring that every athlete is complying with anti-doping

has announced a "multi-year" contract with the International Testing Agency (ITA) to manage its anti-doping

the deal - which has an extension option - was part of its goal to become compliant with World Anti-Doping

By signing the agreement we show that the sport of MMA welcomes an independent body for doping controls

The International Testing Agency is set to oversee GAMMA's anti-doping programme ©GAMMAThe ITA feels

the agreement signals the GAMMA’s intention to become a World Anti-Doping Code signatory.The GAMMA is

its anti-doping efforts."

has banned powerlifter Anton Kriukov for another 18 months after he violated the terms of a previous doping

The Ukrainian was found to have competed while still suspended, therefore breaching the IPC Anti-Doping

prohibition against participation during ineligibility set out at Article 10.12.1. of the IPC Anti-Doping

As a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code, the IPC remains committed to a doping-free sporting environment

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is reportedly set to move the 2021 Men's World Championship from Minsk in Belarus to Russian capital Moscow.

 Russia is due to host the IIHF's 2023 Men's World Championship.If the Russian Anti-Doping Agency's

major event it has been awarded that is due to take place in the four-year period where World Anti-Doping

from weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 after two teenagers, one of them a world champion, were banned for doping

That takes to four the number of Vietnamese lifters suspended for doping since February 2019, two of

them aged 16 at the time of the offence and one aged 17.Any nation with three or more doping violations

liable to lose quota places or be suspended outright.Two other nations that were involved in teenage doping

International Testing Agency (ITA), which now handles the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) anti-doping

28-year-old who has not competed internationally since 2013, was already banned by his national anti-doping

Shayna Jack claimed she accepted the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to half her doping

2019, the date her provisional suspension came into force.The CAS confirmed she had committed an anti-doping

intentionally ingest ligandrol and considered that she had discharged her onus of proving that the anti-doping

 "The anti-doping rules are far from satisfactory and can produce results that are far from fair

 "Anti-doping works the other way around, you are guilty and it’s up to you to prove your degree

 "Your athlete was not innocent — it was a doped athlete, it was a doping offence," Pound said,

Edward Borysewicz, the controversial Polish cycling coach who masterminded the success of the United States team at the 1984 Olympic Games, has passed away at the age of 81.

the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the time, it led to a significant revision of the anti-doping

Commission to adopt new protocols that remain largely in place today.The US Cycling Federation banned blood doping

for Evgeny Ustyugov have confirmed his appeal against the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Anti-Doping

The CAS Anti-Doping Division last month ruled his ABP profile meant Ustyugov had committed an anti-doping

to have had the "benefit of protection and support to artificially augment his performance through doping

and to avoid detection".The CAS Anti-Doping Division claimed this "could not have been achieved other

consideration and resolution of this case of Evgeny Ustyugov on his conviction of violation of anti-doping

rule violation] under the 2012 IBU Anti-Doping Rules" by using the prohibited substance oxandrolone.He

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Testing Agency (ITA) and the International Paralympic

WADA and the ITA hosted a joint session on clean sport, which featured a number of anti-doping officals.Among

WADA education consultant.The importance of honesty in sport holding a zero-tolerance policy towards doping

responsibilities athletes must take on to maintain clean sport, such as knowing and following anti-doping

for your body, informing medical professionals of any athlete obligations, and cooperating with anti-doping

Asian Boxing Confederation (ABSC) President Anas Al Otaiba has targeted resolving the International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) debt situation within one year, doubling the sport’s non-Olympic revenues and ensuring modernised governance should he be elected President.

President has seen the organisation achieve major reforms of governance, referees, finance and anti-doping

Pan American Games triple jump champion Omar Craddock has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for whereabouts failures.

whereabouts failures since 2020 began.Three whereabouts failures in a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping

Richard Freeman has claimed he was unaware of testosterone's performance-enhancing benefits as the former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor's tribunal continued.

cross-examination of Richard Freeman is now in its seventh week ©Getty ImagesFreeman said the issue of doping

Oleg Kurbatov, the head of the regional athletics body in Moscow, has become the latest official to be nominated for President of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF).

to pay a fine to World Athletics.The RusAF, suspended since 2015 when allegations of state-sponsored doping

by paying World Athletics the $6.31 million (£4.8 million/€5.32 million) fine, stemming from an anti-doping

then-President Dmitry Shlyakhtin - were charged by the Athletics Integrity Unit with obstructing an anti-doping

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is well known for its opaque messaging.

deterrents for Federations.It has meant those accused of everything from poor governance to covering up doping

the programme, despite the fact that in certain instances, we have seen athletes extorted for money, doping

favouritism for individual justice over collective responsibility, a trait carried over from the Russian doping