The Rowing Federation of India (RFI) has launched an investigation after 22 members of its national under-18 squad tested positive for the same banned substance.

year for Probenecid, a drug used to treat gout that is also a masking agent banned by the World Anti-Doping

India's National Anti-Doping Agency director general, Navin Agarwal, told the Times of India newspaper

sculls title at the 2018 Asian Games.Indian athletics and weightlifting has also been affected by recent doping

anabolic steroid nandrolone.A number of other Indian middle- and long-distance runners have received doping

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to amend a controversial rule which bans athletes from protesting at the Olympic Games.

Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.The CCES, which administers Canada's anti-doping

International Cycling Union (UCI) has handed retired Belarusian rider Kanstantsin Siutsou a four-year doping

him in September 2018.The rider subsequently retired, but it took until yesterday for the UCI Anti-Doping

trial at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.Kanstantsin Siutsou, right, has been given a four-year doping

Russian athletes, including three-time high jump world champion Mariya Lasitskene, have written to the country's President, urging him to intervene in the dispute between World Athletics and the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF).

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

Russia.The trio are all part of the AIU's registered international testing pool and have been vocal on doping

The General Assembly of the Estonian Olympic Committee (EOK) has re-elected Urmas Sõõrumaa as President of the organisation with his new term expiring in 2024.

to resign from his position after he gave his support to Estonian officials who were embroiled in a doping

World Ski Championships.He backed the involvement of Mati Alaver, who was part of the controversial doping

champion Andrus Veerpalu, later acquitted after initially being handed a three-year ban for suspected doping

involving allegations of using growth hormones.Alaver was convicted later that year for inciting doping

He remains fully in the position of zero tolerance to doping."

A total of 193 athletes from 58 Member Federations have been offered grants by World Athletics from the Athlete Welfare Fund to help support athletes experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

justifiable welfare through significant loss of 2020 income compared to 2019 and must never have had an anti-doping

The Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) says there will be gradual return to testing cyclists outside

as athlete and team representative bodies.Talks focused on the impact the pandemic had on the anti-doping

months.The CADF has had to significantly reduce its activity during the pandemic, in line with World Anti-Doping

place.The CADF says out-of-competition tests have reduced by 90 per cent as a result.The Cycling Anti-Doping

©Getty ImagesHowever, the CADF says it collected as many samples from cyclists as all national anti-doping

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has announced that its Anti-Doping Disciplinary

Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), a step required in order to sign the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA).Michele Verroken, who chairs the IMMAF Anti-Doping Committee, recommended the creation

and sports law, has created and managed the IMMAF's anti-doping processes.Michele Verroken chairs the

IMMAF Anti-Doping Committee ©IMMAF"Chairing IMMAF's Anti-Doping Committee is a privilege as well as

I want our programme to reach beyond the current anti-doping requirements to further the well-being of

Ethiopian long-distance runner Etaferahu Temesgen Wodaj has been handed a 12-year ban for doping, tampering

eighth in the women's race in a new personal best of 2 hours 27min 21sec.A month later, the World Anti-Doping

doctor had given her the banned substance for a medical condition.How do you wind up with a 12-year doping

every four days for three weeks.However, in collaboration with the AIU, the Ethiopian National Anti-Doping

If you stood one weightlifting Coffa brother on top of the other they might just about stretch beyond three metres, edging marginally higher than the top of the discs when the giant Georgian Lasha Talakhadze makes one of his world record lifts.

documents, thinking about any advice he might offer towards improving the constitution and the anti-doping

A more recent inquiry led by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) in 2006 also focused on

the supply of drugs.The Coffas were never implicated in the doping allegations, though Sam did admit

about every other successful weightlifting nation was on drugs, there are now clearly "clean" and "doping

When a doping scandal involving the Bulgarian team became big news, Sam was asked to face the media for

Welsh rugby union player Mike Burgess has been given a two-year ban from all sport after cocaine was found in his system following a domestic match in 2018.

he took the drug in "a social context rather than a sporting one", and UKAD accepted that the anti-doping

establish that he had acted without significant fault or negligence", charging him with violating Anti-Doping

player, Mike Burgess has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following an Anti-Doping

https://t.co/G6Rzb7c9pG pic.twitter.com/mAYj0Maa4n— UK Anti-Doping (@ukantidoping) June 19, 2020"Cocaine

cocaine can vary between cases, which is due to the flexible sanctioning framework set out in the anti-doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published its final versions of the Athletes' Anti-Doping Rights

consultation with thousands of athletes to seek their feedback.It will be based off the 2021 World Anti-Doping

into effect on January 1 next year, having been approved last November during the World Conference on Doping

It is vital that athletes and anti-doping organisations know what rights athletes have, how to access

We call upon the anti-doping community worldwide to support its implementation and its promise."

I applaud the Athlete Committee’s efforts in developing the Anti-Doping Rights Act, which helps ensure

Richard McLaren, known for authoring the report into the state-sponsored doping in Russia, has claimed

of sport.Also speaking about the issue was David Howman, a former director general of the World Anti-Doping

which consults with sport organisations about ethical issues, told Reuters that match-fixing and doping

brother Youssef Hossam received the same punishment.David Howman has said that there are links between doping

governing body.McLaren continues to be one of the most prominent figures in anti-doping, having recently

uncovered corruption and rampant doping in weightlifting.

The South American Soccer Confederation (CONMEBOL) and the Colombian Football Federation (CFC) have accused FIFA of "discriminatory conclusions" in its evaluation report of Colombia's bid to host the 2023 Women's World Cup.

two.The letter from Domínguez and Jesurún took issue with FIFA's criticism of the medical services, doping

Lawyers for former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack say he should not be made a "scapegoat" at his corruption trial in Paris.

€500,000 fine against Papa Massata.Fellow defendants in the case are ex-advisor Habib Cissé, former anti-doping