Usain Bolt could stand to lose his 4×100 metres relay Olympic gold medal from Beijing 2008 after his team-mate Nesta Carter was identified as the high-profile Jamaican athlete to have tested positive following a re-analysis of their sample from the Games.

variety of different names as an energy-boosting dietary supplement.A total of 14 Russians in athletics, weightlifting

Swimmer Martin Carrizo has been withdrawn from the Argentine team for this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after failing a doping test for erythropoetin (EPO).

doping samples submitted at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games.A total of 14 Russians in athletics, weightlifting

A Federation of Billiard Sports has been established in Turkmenistan as the Asian nation steps up its preparations for the next year's Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG).

tennis, Muay Thai, sambo, kurash, jiu jitsu and bowling.Track cycling, swimming, indoor athletics, weightlifting

Russian cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko has been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) following re-analysis of doping samples from the 2012 Olympic Games in London. 

by Russia's public sports channel Match TV on Tuesday (May 31).A total of 14 Russians in athletics, weightlifting

Jamaica could lose a medal won at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing after a high-profile athlete reportedly tested positive following a re-analysis of their sample. 

JOA did not respond for a comment when contacted by insidethegames.Fourteen Russians in athletics, weightlifting

This week’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting in Lausanne promises to be the most significant not just of Thomas Bach’s tenure, but perhaps ever since the fateful 1998 affair at which former International Ski Federation President Marc Hodler first alerted the world to the simmering Salt Lake City corruption scandal.  

No one is calling for an Olympic weightlifting ban against Bulgaria to be lifted, for instance, after

"Concern" has been expressed by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) after the emergence of major meldonium doping scandals within both the Belarus and Romania sprint teams.

Romania and Belarus have poor doping records.Romania has already forfeited one Rio 2016 quota place in weightlifting

gold medals won at the London 2012 Olympics and 2005 World Championships for separate failures.Double weightlifting

champion Andrei Rybakov also failed for meldonium this year, only to be cleared by the International Weightlifting

Russia could lose nine medals won at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games after 14 athletes from the country reportedly tested positive following the re-analysis of samples.

canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, handball, modern pentathlon, shooting, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting

Russia appears poised to forfeit two Rio 2016 Olympic quota places after four weightlifters, including world champion Alexey Lovchev, were all reportedly handed four or eight-year doping suspensions.

athletes to fail tests during the event.All the cases still remain “open”, according to the International Weightlifting

last month.Both his A and B samples showed traces of the banned substance.This has been confirmed by Weightlifting

doping.Bulgarian weightlifters are already banned from Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesCountries which register nine weightlifting

Coolangatta will host beach volleyball when the sport makes its Commonwealth Games debut at Gold Coast in 2018, organisers have confirmed.

, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, shooting, squash, table tennis, triathlon, weightlifting

The Olympic venue for judo and wrestling at Rio 2016 has been officially inaugurated.

major sporting legacy for Rio 2016.Training facilities will be available for wrestling, as well as weightlifting

North Korea has been confirmed as a bidder for the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)

total haul of six medals at last year's World Championships in Houston.North Korea has emerged as a weightlifting

Board is very supportive of North Korea being a host,” said South Korea's President of the East Asia Weightlifting

American weightlifter Daniel Lehr has been banned for four years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), despite claiming he unknowingly took the banned substances which led to him testing positive.

Lehr failed an in-competition drugs test at the 2015 USA Weightlifting National Championships in Dallas

Committee of Ukraine (NOCU) athlete of the month for April after winning three gold medals at the European Weightlifting

American First Lady Michelle Obama has announced that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has pledged to help get two million children in the United States active as part of her Let’s Move! initiative.

archery, cycling, equestrian, hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, synchronised swimming, triathlon, weightlifting