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Zaitseva to appeal "political" CAS decision to Swiss Federal Court

  • Biathlon

Double Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva has vowed to appeal the "political" decision from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to reject her appeal against her disqualification from Sochi 2014 at the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

Rodchenkov.The panel agreed with the IOC that Zaitseva should be disqualified for committing an anti-doping

appeal was thrown out while her team-mates were successful.Olga Zaitseva, left, was convicted of a doping

IOC Disciplinary Commission, handed down for their alleged involvement in Russia's state-sponsored doping

of the stronger verdicts delivered and claimed she was a knowing participant in the state-sponsored doping



World Athletics extends deadline for RusAF reinstatement plan until March 1

  • Athletics

World Athletics Council has extended the deadline for the Russian Athletics Federation’s Reinstatement Commission to finalise its restoration plan.

The plan is expected to outline how RusAF will ingrain a zero-tolerance culture for doping throughout

determined the plan had identified "some of the systemic issues" which needed to be addressed to change the doping

, part of the Monitoring Group of the Anti-Doping Convention in the Council of Europe.Former RUSADA deputy

meaningful plan will be put into place, applications for ANA status in 2021 may be considered by the Doping

expulsion from the governing body.The fine from World Athletics came after an investigation into an anti-doping


Exclusive: Another 130 weightlifting doping samples "hidden" by Aján regime at IWF

  • Weightlifting

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has demanded action from the International Weightlifting Federation

(IWF) over 130 doping samples "hidden" during the tenure of its disgraced former president Tamás Aján

because of widespread doping.It is not clear where the samples are stored, nor is it known how many doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency wants action over 130 anti-doping samples not correctly processed ©Getty

until after cases are closed by the International Testing Agency", which carries out the IWF’s anti-doping

s findings - the highlights were more than $10 million (£7.9 million/€8.6 million) unaccounted for, doping

agencies may also be an issue.Details of IWF doping cover-ups were revealed in June by McLaren, who


Coates suggests Tokyo 2020 simplification efforts will provide model for future organisers

  • Tokyo 2020

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission chair John Coates has claimed efforts to simplify Tokyo 2020 will be a blueprint for future organisers, while suggesting rules of International Federations may be adapted as countermeasures for the Games are produced.

has to be a provision to take that athlete out of the Games in the same way we replace athletes with doping


Lamine Diack back in French court as part of Olympic bid vote investigation

  • Athletics

Disgraced former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack has made his latest appearance in front of a French judge as part of an investigation into alleged corruption linked to the respective awarding of the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.

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

year after he was implicated in the scandal.The French court found Lamine Diack had covered up Russian doping


Russian biathlete facing second doping charge based on McLaren Report and LIMS data

  • Biathlon

Russian biathlete Ekaterina Glazyrina is facing a possible life ban after the Biathlon Integrity Unit (BIU) provisionally suspended her based on the McLaren Report and evidence retrieved from the Moscow Laboratory.

Glazyrina has already served a two-year ban for an anti-doping rule violation, which resulted from charges

solely on the explosive report from the Canadian lawyer and the database obtained by the World Anti-Doping

provisionally suspended ©Getty Images"The Integrity Unit sent the two athletes notice of an asserted anti-doping

metenolone - the substances found in the "Duchess cocktail" said to be used by Russians involved in the doping

to Russian biathletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova and Olga Zaitseva for their involvement in the doping


Siele latest to join list of shame as becomes 66th Kenyan runner to be banned for doping offence

  • Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned a Kenyan athlete who ran from drugs testers and then jumped over a fence to get away - taking the number of athletes from the East African country currently serving suspensions to 66.

the sanction by six months.It means there are now 66 runners from Kenya currently serving bans for doping-related

admitted the violation after the AIU’s notification letter on 16 March 2020 and the AIU and the World Anti-Doping

fact that this was his first experience of out-of-competition testing and his relative lack of anti-doping

TwitterBut AIU also noted in its report that Siele knew he was deliberately seeking to avoid having a doping


CAS overturn life bans of three Russian athletes convicted on evidence of Grigory Rodchenkov

  • Biathlon

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned the life bans given to Russian biathletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova and Olga Zaitseva.

The three biathletes were suspended for life in 2017 for doping offences at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games

parties, with the expectation that it would proceed once decisions had been made on other remaining doping

 But the panel ruled that Zaitseva committed a doping violation, with the IOC decision confirmed

Russia's Olga Zaitseva was found to have committed a doping violation by the Court of Arbitration for

We believe all three of the biathletes are innocent of doping, period," said defence team member Yvan



World Squash Federation to allow ITA to run clean sport programme

  • Squash

The World Squash Federation (WSF) is set to hand over its entire anti-doping programme to the International

Testing Agency (ITA) in January 2021, including its results management and its development of anti-doping

This changeover will make WSF's anti-doping programme completely independent, with ITA being given the

rules by the ITA will also ensure that its regulations are up to date with the 2021 World Anti-Doping

to a much higher level together with the Professional Squash Association.ITA will oversee WSF's anti-doping

The delegation of World Squash's global anti-doping programme to the ITA is a sign of trust and we will

We are delighted to partner with the ITA and are confident that they will run a world-class anti-doping


Bø pledges to "take a stand" against doping in biathlon

  • Biathlon

Olympic gold medallist Johannes Thingnes Bø of Norway has pledged to "take a stand" against doping in

star Fourcade and Koukalová of the Czech Republic were both critical of athletes who had committed doping

Fourcade and Koukalova this year, Bø revealed he would now take on the responsibility of being vocal about doping

 Doping has been prevalent in biathlon, particularly among Russian athletes.In February, Evgeny

RBU) was demoted to provisional membership of the IBU in December 2017 in response to the country's doping


Nike track and field head steps down after two decades of big investment and controversy

  • Athletics

Nike’s senior executive in charge of their track and field programme John Capriotti has stepped down after 28 years, it has been announced, leaving a question mark over the company’s future commitment to the sport it was founded on.

under the previous policy.Justin Gatlin is among the Nike-sponsored athletes to have been embroiled in doping

than two decades at the company that Nike-sponsored athletes, coaches and staff had been implicated in doping

s assistant Llewellyn Starks, although he was never charged.When Gatlin returned from his four-year doping

to sponsor Russia’s track and field team before it was implicated in allegations of state-sponsored doping



Arkéa–Samsic vow to take action if doping offences uncovered after Tour de France raid

  • Cycling

said the team will "disassociate itself" from those responsible should a French investigation confirm doping

A criminal investigation has been launched into alleged doping, with a doctor and physiotherapist reported

"discovery of many health products including drugs and especially a method that can be qualified as doping

if it turns out that, at the end of the ongoing investigation, elements confirming the veracity of doping

last 20 years, demonstrated its commitment to ethics and taken a stand in favour of the fight against doping