last-ditch "unconditional" promise to pay an outstanding fine to World Athletics, according to Russian Anti-Doping

RusAF, which has been suspended since November 2015 following revelations of an organised doping programme

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has avoided expulsion from World Athletics after Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin made a last-minute "unconditional" guarantee to pay an outstanding fine of $6.31 million (£4.8 million/€5.32 million) by August 15.

the fold following the federation’s suspension in November 2015 following revelations of an organised doping

jump champion Danil Lysenko.World Athletics also halted the operation to screen Russian athletes for doping

Dmitry Shlyakhtin - were charged by the Athletics Integrity Unit last November with obstructing an anti-doping

National Championships will be protected from calendar clashes until after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games following a ground-breaking agreement between National Federations and the World Athletics Global Calendar Unit.

reinstate RusAF since its initial suspension in November 2015 following revelations of state-sponsored doping

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

Three-time Olympian Johann Lienhart has been banned for 10 years after being found to have supplied his son with performance enhancing substances.

hormone genotropin between January to March in 2019, before applying them in the spring.The Austrian Anti-Doping

implicated athletes in several sports, including skiing and cycling, for their alleged involvement in a doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International

early stages of research and development.It is hoped the shared information will help to develop anti-doping

Identifying new substances with doping potential when they are still undergoing development facilitates

authorities, particularly the early development of anti-doping tests for medicines before they go on

have formally cooperated since signing the first Joint Declaration on Cooperation in the Fight against Doping

Doping undermines the integrity of scientific innovation," said Ricks."

The Russian Rugby Federation (FRR) has created an Organising Committee to examine its potential bid for the 2027 World Cup.

be made by World Rugby in May 2022.Success for Russia would be controversial, due to the country's doping

record.The World Anti-Doping Agency has issued a four-year ban on the Russian flag flying at the Olympic

At last! A sports chief who speaks sense. The British Olympic Association’s (BOA) Mark England, who is due to lead Team GB as Chef de Mission in the postponed Tokyo Games exactly a year from now, reckons it is time to bury the obsession with winning above all else - the deeply ingrained philosophy of Government agency UK Sport.

substance was still being researched and UK sport admitted it could not guarantee it would comply with anti-doping

Obviously there are people outright doping, but also it feels like some athletes are moving away from

One of the most renowned figures in global anti-doping, Travis Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti-Doping

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has asked World Athletics to treat its non-payment of a fine as an issue separate from the reinstatement process of the governing body, ahead of a two-day World Athletics Council meeting where RusAF could be expelled.

believe that the true purpose of the World Athletics is to cleanse world sport (including Russia) of doping

Athletics.He is among its members, along with RusAF legal adviser Irina Lyuboserdova, Russian Anti-Doping

to overcome the crisis", with reforms drawn up "in order to ingrain a culture of zero tolerance for doping

has been suspended by World Athletics since November 2015 following revelations of state-sponsored doping

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

Anton Shipulin, Russia's former biathlon relay world champion, has tested positive for COVID-19.

the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, but Shipulin is poised to lose that medal following Evgeny Ustyugov's doping

metres relay team from the 2018 Asian Games have been upgraded to the gold-medal position following the doping

2020 Olympic Games, after claiming the country has learned "absolutely nothing" from its long-running doping

ahead of the release of his autobiography, The Rodchenkov Affair – How I Brought Down Putin's Secret Doping

turned whistleblower.He provided much of the evidence against Russian athletes who were accused of doping

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is currently deemed non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency

four-year sanction being overturned.The sanctions of 28 Russian athletes implicated in the country's doping

the Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles because Russian officials feared their doping

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has admitted the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) may be expelled by World Athletics after missing a deadline to pay a fine, although a new commission has been established to work towards restoration.

 In reaction to the missed deadline, World Athletics halted the work of the Doping Review Board

has been suspended by World Athletics since November 2015 following revelations of state-sponsored doping

 Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Yuri Ganus and deputy director general Margarita

is reported to have laid out a new roadmap for change and introducing a zero-tolerance approach to doping

leadership will send to World Athletics tomorrow.RUSADA was again declared non-compliant by the Wold Anti-Doping

two appeals with the Swiss Federal Tribunal as the Chinese swimmer seeks to overturn an eight-year doping

the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in February.He was found to have committed the second anti-doping

hammer during a row with drug testers in September 2018.The CAS upheld an appeal from the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) against a decision from the International Swimming Federation's Doping Panel to let the

did not have the correct credentials.But the CAS panel agreed with WADA that the accreditation of the doping

Eight years ago today – it seems like a lifetime – the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics took place. 

friend with whom I sat at the Opening Ceremony has since written numerous stories on the retrospective doping

European high jump champion Alexander Shustov is refusing to give up on a campaign to clear his name for doping

attempted to use a prohibited substance or prohibited method by an athlete" under World Athletics' anti-doping

rules.The case was a landmark for anti-doping authorities as the Athletics Integrity Unit confirmed

the results annulled after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld Alexander Shustov's four-year doping

to in December 2016, when it became known that his name was on the list of athletes investigated for doping