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Probe into mechanical doping in cycling closes with no evidence of wrongdoing

  • Cycling

A French probe into mechanical doping in cycling has closed without finding evidence it is a problem

by the financial crimes division of the French police, was launched in 2017 after claims mechanical doping

double Olympic gold medallist and four-time world champion Fabian Cancellara was accused of mechanical doping


Olympic Order awarded to former East German leader Honecker up for auction

  • Collecting and Heritage News

The Olympic Order controversially awarded to East Germany’s former leader Erich Honecker 35 years ago is to be put up for auction next month.

Erich Honecker was head of an East German Government that ran a massive state-sponsored doping programme

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

several members of the IOC and its Medical Commission were aware of East Germany’s state-sponsored doping


Virtus launches online education series for members

  • Paralympics

Virtus has announced the launch of an online education series for its members, ensuring continuous support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

member organisations and committee members free of charge.The first in the series will focus on anti-doping

and a representative from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will join to discuss the upcoming 2021

World Anti-Doping Code.The representative will also talk about how the Code will support athletes and


Olympic wrestling bronze medallist Fransson given four-year doping ban

  • Wrestling

medallist Jenny Fransson will miss the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after she was given a four-year doping

mistake and also believes the Swedish laboratory which tested her sample did not follow World Anti-Doping

and won bronze in 2008 and 2019.She had been removed from Sweden's team for Tokyo 2020 after her anti-doping


Award and apology for Indian weightlifter after doping case delay - but American lab stays silent

  • Weightlifting

Sanjita Chanu, the Indian weightlifter who was cleared of doping two and a half years after testing positive

take legal action against the sport’s governing body, which has apologised to her.United States Anti-Doping

for the award and keep its 2018 decision in a sealed envelope, pending a decision on the contentious doping

933 days after her sample was taken.The IWF acted after receiving notification from the World Anti-Doping

corruption in weightlifting, published on June 4, which detailed instances of delayed and "buried" doping

positives.He said there was "example after example of that (IWF anti-doping) department, mostly under


WADA claim ONDCP report written with "clear intention to discredit us"

  • Latest

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has criticised a report by the White House's Office for National

itself against unfounded attacks via the media, which do absolutely nothing to advance the global anti-doping

The White House's Office of National Doping Control Policy asked the US Congress earlier this month for

 "Countries – and not necessarily the ones with the best history of anti-doping – could effectively


World Athletics President Coe warns suspended Coleman he will not receive special treatment ahead of Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

Sebastian Coe has warned American sprinter Christian Coleman - provisionally suspended for an anti-doping

ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Coleman was controversially cleared to race last year by the United States Anti-Doping

suspended, but return for the Olympics.Christian Coleman faces a two-year ban for missing three anti-doping

had missed two tests was not more careful.Three missed tests in a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping

Alongside biological passports and adverse analytical findings it is a central part of the anti-doping

or you don’t take seriously the anti-doping efforts of the sport".Bahrain's women's 400m world champion


Weightlifting "on path to recovery" as IWF agrees on election date

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will have a new constitution and a new permanent leader within seven months.

this week.It will oversee all the IWF’s operations and report any misgivings concerning finance, anti-doping

full team - or any team at all in the cases of Thailand and Egypt - to Tokyo 2020 because of multiple doping

came to Tamás Aján's reign as President, saying he had rigged elections through bribery and buried doping

work was stopped a year ago, and two independent members.A draft of the rules for the IWF’s new Anti-Doping

Policy, compliant with the 2021 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, were approved to forward to WADA




Powerlifter Hernandez banned for 15 months for failing drugs test

  • Powerlifting News

Powerlifter Johannes Hernandez has been banned for 15 months by the International Paralympic Committee after he failed a drugs test at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima.

blood pressure medication hydrochlorothiazide and its metabolite, which are included on the World Anti-Doping


Russian Sports Minister Matytsin says country's athletes must be allowed to compete internationally as neutrals

  • Olympics

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin says the country's athletes must be allowed to compete as neutrals in international competition, even if the country's athletics federation does not pay a $5 million (£4.02 million/€4.44 million) fine by the start of July.

 "I am glad that, in principle, the federation is now very active in anti-doping propaganda and


White House Office of National Drug Control Policy threatens to pull WADA funding

  • Latest

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has threatened to pull its funding of the World Anti-Doping

investment in WADA in the form of clean sport, fair play, effective administration of the world anti-doping

For years the United States has provided the World Anti-Doping Agency with millions of taxpayers’ dollars

A particular area of concern highlighted in the report is WADA’s handling of the Russian doping scandal.The

The White House's Office of National Doping Control Policy has asked the US Congress for authority to

Speaking about the report, Travis Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency said: "I think


Kenyan long-distance runner Kipkorir given four-year doping ban

  • Athletics

Kenyan long-distance runner Japhet Kipkorir has been given a four-year ban after testing positive for the prohibited substance nandrolone.

to explain the presence of nandrolone in his sample, but admitted committing an unintentional anti-doping

Amman Marathon last October ©Run JordanKipkorir joins a long list of Kenyan athletes currently serving doping

featuring in the Athletics Integrity Unit's (AIU) list of countries considered to have the highest doping


Zaitseva nominated for Russian Biathlon Union Board despite Sochi 2014 disqualification

  • Biathlon

Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) Board, despite her disqualification from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for doping

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

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

Biathlon Union (IBU) relegated the RBU to provisional member status as punishment for the country's doping

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