Search

  • Sort results by:

10000 results Showing results 3256 to 3270

One athlete tests positive for coronavirus after reopening of USOPC training centres

  • PASO

One athlete who returned to the United States Olympic and Paralympic training centre in Chula Vista as part of a phased reopening of the facilities earlier this month has tested positive for COVID-19.

after returning a positive test for coronavirus antibodies.The PCC, a non-profit group that funds anti-doping

At the end of the day, anti-doping is about athlete health and safety, so while this isn’t our typical


FIDE President Dvorkovich warns against "computer doping" in chess

  • Non-Olympic Sports

warned against the perils of computer fraud in the sport, which he has compared to chess' version of doping

have good coverage of our events, good partners, we must be sure that chess is clean from computer doping

There is no real doping in chess, but there is computer doping that hits us - fighting it is one of the


RUSADA analysis of critical audit bites back at "fabrications" and "unreliable data"

  • News

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has published its rebuttal to an audit which is alleged to have

showed proof of 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

The ROC and RPC are subject to RUSADA doping control, as RUSADA tests Olympians and Paralympians," he


Wrestlers asked to complete WADA educational programme by UWW

  • Wrestling

qualified a place at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been asked to complete a World Anti-Doping

500 wrestlers, including top-ranked junior and senior athletes from countries with a "higher risk" of doping

the track record of positive tests in the athlete's nation.The Alpha course is part of WADA's anti-doping

e-learning platform ©WADAThe programme gives athletes information about the dangers of doping and the

importance of anti-doping controls, and promotes positive attitudes to avoiding doping, according to

obtaining a certificate from the WADA course - "or a recognised equivalent delivered by a National Anti-doping


English rugby union player Goodfellow given two-year doping ban

  • Rugby Sevens

English rugby union player Greg Goodfellow has been given a two-year suspension after he tested positive for a banned substance.

the sanction was reduced on appeal.He becomes the latest rugby union player in Britain to receive a doping

contained methasterone, an anabolic steroid prohibited in and out of competition by the World Anti-Doping

Agency.Goodfellow challenged the four-year ban handed to him by the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP

), a tribunal independent from UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and the Rugby Football Union.The panel agreed that

Goodfellow did not fully acknowledge the "significant risk" that his conduct would result in an anti-doping


Honecker Olympic Order fetches €20,000 at auction

  • Collecting and Heritage News

The Olympic Order controversially awarded to East Germany’s former leader Erich Honecker 35 years ago has raised €20,000 (£18,000/$22,000) at auction.

to escape communist East Germany into the West.He was also head of a Government that created a state doping



Ganus issues stark suicide warning as RUSADA-ROC row intensifies

  • News

Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Yuriy Ganus has issued a public declaration that

safety, suggesting readers should suspect foul play were anything to happen to him.The Russian Anti-Doping

Agency is currently deemed non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code ©Getty Images"Realising that

investigation can be carried out.Ganus, appointed director general in 2017, oversaw the World Anti-Doping

recommendation of its Compliance Review Committee to again deem RUSADA non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping


ITA confirm significant fall in sample collection and testing during pandemic

  • Tokyo 2020

The International Testing Agency (ITA) has confirmed a significant fall in sample collection and testing during the coronavirus pandemic.

tests by up to 100 per cent between March and June.The ITA claimed it maintained all of its other anti-doping

specific guidelines on increased sanitary precautions to protect the health of athletes and the anti-doping

 "COVID-19 has completely reshuffled anti-doping tests," he said."

The ITA also shared its final report of its anti-doping programme for the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in

 The ITA claimed an interactive learning workshop on the doping control process proved to be very




Bach to stand for re-election as IOC President in 2021

  • Olympics

Thomas Bach has confirmed his intention to run for a second term as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

of Ukraine in round two.Bach has faced several challenges during his Presidency, notably the Russian doping


RusAF not planning to hold urgent Presidential election

  • Athletics

The Executive Committee of the crisis-stricken Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) is not planing to hold an urgent election to select a new President.

Shlyakhtin, one of seven RusAF officials charged by the Athletics Integrity Unit with obstructing an anti-doping

investigation into Lysenko.In response to the missed deadline, World Athletics halted the work of the Doping


American sprinter Stevens given 18-month ban for whereabouts failures

  • Athletics

American sprinter Deajah Stevens has been handed an 18-month ban for whereabouts failures, ruling her out of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

compete again until August 16 2021.The re-arranged Tokyo Olympics finish on August 8.Stevens missed anti-doping

in February, August and November of 2019.Three missed tests in a 12-month period equates to an anti-doping

avoid harassment - which included threats made to her fiancé's life - but had not informed the anti-doping

contested; there was restricted access to the location where Stevens was supposed to be, meaning the doping-control

officer could not conduct a test.For the second missed test, a doping-control officer rang the athletes


ITA signs cooperation agreements with eight National Anti-Doping Organisations

  • News

International Testing Agency (ITA) has entered into new cooperation agreements with eight National Anti-Doping

We are very pleased and honoured to partner with these leading National Anti-Doping Organisations," ITA

 "The fight against doping requires efficient collaboration platforms to share expertise, data and

Agency, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and Azerbaijan National Anti-Doping Agency.The China Anti-Doping

Today’s approach in anti-doping is increasingly driven by intelligence," Ask said."

Agencies, both in my position as chair of iNADO and as CEO of Anti-Doping Denmark.