An Albanian weightlifting official who drove 1,100 kilometres to pay $74,000 (£58,000/€65,000) in cash so his country could compete in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has told insidethegames why and how the journey came about.

European Championships in Forde, Norway," Haxhihyseni said.IWF rules at the time, in the 2015 Anti-Doping

was paid in full, and that default of payment would lead to a one-year suspension.A receipt for the doping

Intarat Yodbangtoey has denied any involvement in bribery and corruption at the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) electoral congress, and says he has been insulted and dishonoured.

Thai weightlifter Siripuch Gulnoi admitted doping during an interview as part of a TV documentary in

voted in favour of an independent body, the International Testing Agency, taking over the IWF’s anti-doping

a secret recording with a Thai Olympic medallist, Siripuch Gulnoi.In that interview Gulnoi admitted doping

in Thailand, that some girls started doping at the age of 13 for national competitions, and that "those

Teenagers were caught up in a doping scandal in Thailand in 2011, and Olympic and world champions were

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed appeals by Andrea Iannone and the World Anti-Doping

and insist Iannone is innocent.While Iannone is hoping to see his sanction annulled, the World Anti-Doping

The largest and most significant athletics meeting of the pandemic-blighted year will take place with Oslo’s Bislett Stadium at its centre tomorrow night – the self-styled Impossible Games – with another similar event, the Inspiration Games, based in Zurich set to take place on July 9.

metres.Johaug, who missed the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics after being suspended for 18 months for a doping

“The structural issue with International Sports Federations (IFs) is that Presidents are elected, which means their first priority will be re-election, which often means it becomes the organisational priority.”

modelled to an extent on the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the legal realm and the World Anti-Doping

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) deputy director Margarita Pakhnotskaya says the organisation

discovered 27 possible violations of anti-doping rules by athletes in May.

breached conditions related to existing bans.Last year, RUSADA examined 202 possible violations of anti-doping

coronavirus.Earlier this month, it was confirmed that hearings in Russia's long-running case against the World Anti-Doping

The date for Australian swimmer Shayna Jack's appeal against a four-year doping ban has been set by the

anabolic agent Ligandrol in June.The 21-year-old was given the maximum length of suspension for a first doping

returned before last year's World Championships in South Korea.Shayna Jack is appealing a four-year doping

a lengthy post on Instagram last month, Jack again protested her innocence and hit out at the anti-doping

An Indian weightlifter who has finally been cleared of doping more than two and a half years after testing

California.Now, 933 days later, the IWF has withdrawn the charges based on advice from the World Anti-Doping

Imphal in Manipur state, "I am happy in the sense that I am finally and officially cleared from the doping

October 2018.An extract of the letter sent to Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham, clearing the Indian athlete of a doping

won Commonwealth Games gold in 2014 and 2018, said the problems started right at the outset when the Doping

I have always had the feeling that IWF would finally say she is clear from the doping charge, but never

jumper Alexandra Kustova has been suspended for 18 months for whereabouts failures, the Russian Anti-Doping

was practically no chance of achieving leniency, given the latest trends in the entire world of anti-doping

German athlete body Athleten Deutschland has called for "a comprehensive personnel and structural re-launch" at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after the McLaren Independent Weightlifting Investigation chronicled widespread corruption under former President Tamás Aján.

the IWF under Aján's reign, detailing how the Hungarian secured power by buying votes and exposing doping

United States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart, athletes’ representative body Global

Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) President Vladimir Drachev has warned the amount of money the organisation needs to pay the International Biathlon Union (IBU) as part of its conditions for full reinstatement is likely to have increased.

The RBU, relegated to provisional member by the IBU in December 2017 as punishment for the widespread doping

surprised if the amount [owed to the IBU] has increased".The four-time world champion cited costs in doping

 "Since then, several proceedings have been held [on doping cases of Yevgeny Ustyugov and Svetlana

the European men's high jump champion in 2010, has been handed a four-year ban for a breach of anti-doping

attempt to use an prohibited substance or prohibited method by an athlete" under World Athletics' anti-doping

I was personally taking part in the hearings, according to the case materials, all my doping samples

punish us for training Ivan Ukhov and Svetlana Shkolina, who were disqualified, despite the fact that doping

British Athletics has set-up a development partnership with London Marathon Events, with the aim of creating talent hubs for promising athletes aged between 16 and 21.

four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah, had a relationship with UKA despite facing accusations of systemic doping

Project.The disgraced coach is currently appealing a four-year-ban given to him by the United States Anti-Doping

The man who was twice beaten by Tamás Aján in elections corrupted by bribery is considering suing the disgraced former President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

revealed that Aján was responsible for widespread corruption during his "autocratic" reign, in finance, doping

vice-president and Aján’s second-in-command.Richard McLaren's report on weightlifting corruption detailed doping

since, because of the IOC’s threat to remove weightlifting’s Olympic status.They include putting anti-doping

under discussion.The "big revolution" in European weightlifting, he said, came through changing the doping

been handed a record 20-year ban after the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Tribunal found doping

This is a really great result for horse welfare and the fight against doping in equestrian sport," FEI