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Transgender champion stars as Thailand attracts 500 athletes to "live" weightlifting

  • Weightlifting

A transgender weightlifter who wore make-up, earrings and a bra was a beaming winner of a men's title in Thailand, where "live" competition proved a huge success despite restrictions imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 Olympic Games – and all other international competition until March 2022 ­– because of multiple doping

weightlifting are worried about the nation's prospects of competing at Tokyo 2020 after the latest doping


WADA publishes revised and redesigned Prohibited List for 2021

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published a redesigned List of Prohibited Substances and Methods

details the substances and methods prohibited both in- and out-of-competition under the World Anti-Doping

that an athlete may receive a reduced sanction if it can be proven that this method was not used for doping

and support personnel to address the safe use of glucocorticoids for clinical purposes within anti-doping

List is one of the international standards that are mandatory for all signatories of the World Anti-Doping


Russian biathletes file criminal complaint over alleged Rodchenkov forgery claims

  • Biathlon

Lawyers representing biathletes Olga Zaisteva, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova have said criminal complaints have been lodged with the Swiss prosecutors office over alleged fake signatures by whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov.

panel agreed with the IOC that Zaitseva should be disqualified from Sochi 2014 for committing an anti-doping

claimed earlier this year that signatures provided by Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping

and also why CAS did not pay attention to the fake signatures of the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping

Russia's latest defence to its intransigent doping crimes is its craziest yet as they preposterously

claim that the affidavits detailing doping crimes by Russian athletes were forged," Walden said at the



Sports doctor confesses to distribution of illegal drugs and doping in Germany and Austria

  • Skiing

Sports doctor Mark Schmidt has confessed to the use of illegal drugs and blood doping in Germany and

In an ongoing trial that started on September 16, Schmidt admitted that since 2012 he had been using doping

question were not announced during the hearing.The 42-year-old claimed that he "did not profit from doping

with the agent himself, suggesting he was not sure of the harm of the drugs.The Operation Aderlass doping

Doping is fraud against all clean competitors and betrayal of the ethical values of sport."

again, including at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.Schmidt did deny that he played a part in doping


French prosecutors describe alleged "mechanism of corruption" associated with Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

French prosecutors investigating former World Athletics President Lamine Diack and his son Papa Massata have described the "mechanism of corruption" allegedly associated with sporting events such as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Lamine Diack was sentenced to two years in prison following an investigation into cover-ups of Russian doping

guilty of corruption by the Paris Criminal Court following an investigation into cover-ups of Russian doping


Exclusive: World Athletics condemn Belarus election of convicted drugs cheat as President

  • Athletics

World Athletics has hit out at the election of convicted drugs cheat Ivan Tsikhan as the new President of the Belarus Athletic Federation (BFLA).

However, no one who has served a doping ban would be able to hold an official position on World Athletics

insisting the verdict "should not be interpreted as an exoneration".Devyatovskiy had previously served a doping

along with Ethiopia, Kenya and Ukraine, is on a World Athletics watch list of countries most at risk of doping

In an interview posted on the official BFLA website, there is only an opaque reference to Tsikhan's doping


Viktor Ahn

  • Universiade Legends

      2005 Winter Universiade, Innsbruck: Short track speed skating: 1500 metres gold; 3000m gold; 5,000m relay gold; 1000m bronze.

of the Pyeongchang 2018 Games as part of the international sanctions against his adopted country for doping


Bulgarian weightlifter provisionally suspended after testing positive for banned substance

  • Weightlifting

Bulgaria's Todor Yordanov has been provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after testing positive for a banned substance.

least" one anabolic steroid.The athlete has been provisionally suspended "in view of a potential anti-doping

rule violation".Yordanov could face up to a four-year ban if he is found to have breached anti-doping

rules.His provisional suspension marks the latest blow to Bulgarian weightlifting, which has a troubled doping



Virtus receives WADA approval for 2021 anti-doping policy

  • Paralympics

announced its policy and procedures have been updated to comply with the 2021 version of the World Anti-Doping

Governing Board approved the updated policy in September, with the document then sent to the World Anti-Doping

conclude it more than three months ahead of the deadline," said Trudi Jackson, chair of the Virtus Anti-Doping

impairments.Nearly 1,000 athletes from 50 countries competed in 10 sports at last year's event.Virtus' approved anti-doping


Kenyan President troubled by doping cases among country's athletes

  • Athletics

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has admitted the spate of doping cases among his country's athletes is

The Kenyan President called for the Sports Ministry to improve anti-doping education ©State House KenyaMarathon

runner Patrick Siele became the latest Kenyan athlete to be banned for doping this week after he was



Harrison clinches gold at Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged

  • Canoeing

Nevin Harrison of the United States clinched gold in the C1 200 metres at the Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged.

41.20.Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova marked his return to international competition after a four-year doping


Weightlifting "ensures credibility" by giving independents majority on new Anti-Doping Commission

  • Weightlifting

step in its attempts to clean up a tarnished sport by giving the majority of seats on its new Anti-Doping

Christine Girard, who won Olympic bronze and gold medals after doping cheats were disqualified at Beijing

The IWF’s new Anti-Doping Commission and Independent Monitoring Group are vital components of our efforts

relations at Anti-Doping Norway, chair of the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation and chair of the World

Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) advisory group for national anti-doping organisations.Christine Girard will

Agency, Dr Francesca Rossi, an Italian who is a director at the French National Anti-Doping Agency,