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WADA vice-president Yang calls for calm in feud with White House

  • News

China's World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) vice-president Yang Yang has called for calm amid an escalating

million) contribution matched by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).WADA's handling of the Russian doping

WADA to see if funding will be pulled, the ONDCP said.WADA must "include independent athletes and anti-doping

If the US stops funding, it will surely damage the global fight against doping because the US also shoulders

replaced Norway's Linda Helleland, a vocal critic of the IOC and WADA in the fall-out to the Russian doping


Olympic champion Bartoletta slams Coleman over attitude towards whereabouts failures

  • Athletics

Bartoletta has hit out at her compatriot Christian Coleman for his attitude towards a provisional anti-doping

professionalism" and "responsibility".Coleman is facing the potential of a two-year ban for missing three anti-doping

Championships in Albuquerque in 6.34 seconds.However, this is not the first time he has faced an anti-doping

ban, having been suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency ahead of the 2019 World Athletics

or missed tests, for Coleman to allow this to happen again will lead people to believe either you’re doping

or you don’t take seriously the anti-doping efforts of the sport.


RusAF asks for extension as deadline for it to pay World Athletics $5 million reached

  • Athletics

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) is requesting the deadline for it to pay half of a $10 million (£8 million/€9 million) fine to World Athletics - which is today - is postponed indefinitely, claiming it does not have the funds available to complete payment at the present time.

- Russian Olympic Committee, the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation and the Russian Anti-Doping

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

investigation into Lysenko by forging documents to explain missed tests.The fine stems from anti-doping

vice-president.RusAF cited numerous violations of its ethical code, but Bezuglov - who was head of the RusAF Anti-Doping


Zaitseva withdraws from race for place on Russian Biathlon Union Board

  • Biathlon

Olga Zaitseva, stripped of her Olympic silver medal from Sochi 2014 for her role in the Russian doping

of the athletes implicated in the McLaren Report, which revealed an orchestrated system of Russian doping

extraordinary conference on July 11.She had been a controversial choice owing to her involvement in the Russian doping

Oswald Commission, which investigated the scandal, ruled that she was a "knowing participant" in the doping

and Vilukhina have filed a separate lawsuit against Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping


New unit to protect reputation of Australian sport set for official launch

  • Latest

Sports Integrity Australia (SIA), a new unit that aims to protect the reputation of the country's sport, is launching tomorrow.

the integrity of the country's sport.SIA combines the current functions of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping

The agency will function as Australia’s national anti-doping organisation, and sports are encouraged


Cricketer Holder calls for racism punishments to equal doping and match-fixing sanctions

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Jason Holder has suggested the punishment for racism should be the same penalty given to players for doping

remark to South Africa's Andile Phehlukwayo.Holder suggested that racism should be treated the same as doping

 "I don't think the penalty for doping or corruption should be any different for racism," he said

 "In addition to having anti-doping briefings and anti-corruption briefings, maybe we should have


Analysis of Russian doping finds female athletes four times more likely to be banned

  • Athletics

A study into Russian doping in athletics has analysed the difference in performance between athletes

who have served doping bans and those who haven't, finding that clean athletes performed better in six

The study, "Is Russian Doping What it Appears to Be?"

Lysenko, who was stripped of her London 2012 gold medal, was one of many athletes to be banned for doping

disqualified results.This could be down to a number of factors, such as ageing athletes turning to doping

disqualified results were superior.Restrictions placed on Russian athletes in response to state-sponsored doping



Kazan to host Special Olympics World Winter Games in 2022

  • Winter Paralympics

Kazan in Russia has been announced as the host of the 2022 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

the ban on Russia from hosting major events for four years, announced in 2019 after the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) non-compliant.The punishment is yet to


Olympic champion Chalmers says "a lot of doping" occurring in swimming

  • Swimming

swimming champion Kyle Chalmers has claimed that he cannot trust half of his opponents as "a lot of doping"occurs

The Rio 2016 gold medallist spoke on the Phil Davis Podcast about attitudes towards doping in Australia

There's a lot of doping that goes on everywhere in swimming," Chalmers said."

his Rio 2016 tally.The case of Australian swimmer Shayna Jack - who is appealing against a four-year doping

have both taken a stance against Sun Yang on the podium ©Getty ImagesSun, who served a three-month doping

The International Swimming Federation has announced seven doping violations in 2020, compared to eight


Canada to resume anti-doping tests with supplemental safety measures in place

  • Olympics

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) is set to resume anti-doping tests with supplemental safety

sports return to training and provincial health restrictions are lifted, CCES has developed supplemental doping

control procedures to allow the resumption of urine sample collection under the Canadian Anti-Doping

drafting process for the guidelines involved a complete review and risk assessment of each aspect of the doping

CCES announced that it would suspend all doping control testing due to the pandemic on March 27.

 Other anti-doping authorities such as UK Anti-Doping and the United States Anti-Doping Agency also


Isinbayeva writes letter urging IOC and World Athletics to "protect" Russian athletes as deadline for RusAF payment looms

  • Athletics

Russia's two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has written an open letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Athletics as the deadline for the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) payment nears. 

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


UK Athletics looking for performance director and Olympic head coach

  • Athletics

UK Athletics has launched the search for a performance director and an Olympic head coach ahead of the now-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

resigned in the wake of controversial American distance coach Alberto Salazar receiving a four-year doping