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Michael Pavitt: Is the run of Kenyan doping bans concerning or a sign of progress?

  • Inside the Blogs

when the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announces that several Kenyan runners have fallen foul of anti-doping

received an eight-year ban after testing positive for 19-norandrosterone to commit her second anti-doping

It is a question that continues to linger.There has been increased efforts to strengthen the anti-doping

The AIU helped to fund the first World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-approved laboratory in East Africa,

and/or willfully blind as to the consequences of doping".Officials from the country have made the right

shops detailing different parts of the Russian doping scandal, which I suspect were initially planned


New IWF Athletes' Commission to come into being on September 1

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has taken the first step towards giving athletes a meaningful voice in the sport’s future.

the Board, but that and other governance reforms have yet to be agreed.Candidates must have a clean doping

more communication between the IWF and the athletes and that’s a good thing," said Evans, who believes doping

Since 2017, Goegebuer has had a lot of input on discussions on anti-doping policies, bodyweight classes


Rodchenkov expected to offer new insight into Russian doping scandal in autobiography

  • Olympics

his autobiography this week, with the book expected to give unprecedented insight into the Russian doping

Rodchenkov was the former head of the Moscow Anti-doping Laboratory.In 2015, he fled to the United States

turned whistleblower, providing much of the evidence against Russian athletes accused of engaging in doping

 "Our team held our own 'closing ceremony' when we sealed the last tampered doping bottle.

 Individual athletes who get caught doping would not be subject to punishment under the law.

  The consequences of the Russian doping scandal are still ongoing, with the Russian Anti-Doping


WADA launches new online course for athletes and coaches in build-up to Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

set to attend the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games next year has been launched by the World Anti-Doping

WADA, the programme will allow athletes and coaches to gain an understanding of the Tokyo 2020 anti-doping

all National Olympic Committees "to work in close collaboration with their National or Regional Anti-Doping

ADeL for Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ enables Anti-Doping Organisations to help prepare their national team athletes

and coaches on all things anti-doping at the Games," said WADA director of education Amanda Hudson.

 "We therefore encourage Anti-Doping Organisations to utilise this new interactive e-learning course


Stanislav Pozdnyakov: The Olympic education system must adapt to the new reality - we have already started the work in Russia

  • Inside the Blogs

During the last few months, it has been proven once again that we are living in an era of constantly and rapidly changing environment and conditions, when it’s no longer enough to just have a basis of certain knowledge and skills - it is necessary to upgrade them regularly by processing huge amounts of new information. Without it, the qualitative development of the sports industry becomes absolutely impossible. 

For example, anti-doping programmes, programmes for coaches in various sports, sports media representatives


UCI warns pandemic could impact business throughout 2021-2024 Olympic cycle

  • Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has warned that the global pandemic is likely to impact on its business for "the whole of the next Olympic cycle", as it posted a net deficit of CHF3.5 million (£2.9 million/$3.75 million/€3.2 million) for 2019.

million).The loans are interest-free and repayable in equal instalments over 27 years.The Cycling Anti-Doping



Athlete groups call on WADA to implement "stronger" reforms promoting independence and accountability

  • News

Athlete groups have come together to call for "proper reforms" at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

International Olympic Committee or national Governments having more seats.Athlete groups call on the World Anti-Doping

2020WADA is additionally called on to review "several problematic articles within the 2021 World Anti-Doping

said: "WADA welcomes all constructive suggestions to further strengthen the Agency and the global anti-doping

submitting a report questioning whether American investment in WADA represented value for money.US Anti-doping


RUSADA criticises "individual ROC representatives who are pursuing their own goals" as row continues

  • News

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has once more criticised the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)

commissioned revealed a "number of significant irregularities in the financial and economic activities" of the doping

their goal at any cost, in violation of not only Russian legislation, but also the international anti-doping

- "do not understand how RUSADA business processes and logistics of sample collection are built by doping

control officers", says the doping watchdog.In regards to other travel expenses, RUSADA presents figures

non-compliant in 2015.However, WADA made the country non-compliant again in December after alleging that doping


AIU announces sanctions against four Kenyans including ex-1,500m world champion Manangoi

  • Athletics

announced sanctions against four Kenyan athletes, with two provisionally suspended and two banned for doping

received an eight-year ban after testing positive for 19-norandrosterone to commit her second anti-doping

an out-of-competition drugs test, has been banned for two years ©Getty ImagesThe athlete alerted the doping

compliance with the International Standard for Laboratories" were not followed, and therefore an anti-doping


Indian weightlifter Rahul aims for peak performance return following Tokyo 2020 delay

  • Weightlifting

Indian weightlifter Ragala Venkat Rahul has spoken of the difficulty of maintaining top form for an entire year after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed due to COVID-19.

A few top athletes were banned because of doping and that opens up a way for us to win a medal."

from the 94kg which was an extremely controversial class at London 2012.Seven athletes were banned for doping


Ex-New Zealand boxer Cox given two-year doping ban despite believing career over

  • Boxing

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has announced a two-year ban for boxer Roseanna Cox, who failed a drugs test while

liable to be tested for performance-enhancing drugs.Furosemide, a diuretic, appears on the World Anti-Doping

prescribed furosemide and took it before a photoshoot earlier in March 2019, Cox said.UKAD said the anti-doping

violation "is not deemed 'intentional' as that term is defined in the ADR [Anti-Doping Rules]", but

commented: "Becoming a member of a National Governing Body (NGB) means that athletes agree to abide by Anti-Doping

 "Athletes should never just assume that the Anti-Doping Rules do not apply to them."


David Owen: Russia, the United States and China – Thomas Bach's infernal triangle

  • Inside the Blogs

I was a little surprised by the testy tone of a key part of Thomas Bach's opening speech to last week's remote International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session. 

China.Bach was already encountering turbulence from across the Atlantic, particularly in the realm of anti-doping

House Office of National Drug Control Policy recently threatened to pull its funding of the World Anti-Doping


Exclusive: Russian Olympic Committee says RUSADA claims "do not match with reality"

  • News

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has said that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) claims "do not

RUSADA revealed a "number of significant irregularities in the financial and economic activities" of the doping

own life as the row intensified.He was appointed director general in 2017 and oversaw the World Anti-Doping

non-compliant in 2015.WADA made the country non-compliant again in December, however, after alleging that doping


WADA extend suspension of New Delhi laboratory for up to six months

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has extended the suspension of the National Dope Testing Laboratory

identifying issues including problems with a test which can help detect the presence of steroids in an anti-doping

2019 ©Getty ImagesThe suspension prevents the facility in the Indian city from carrying out any anti-doping