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Diack trial opens as court rejects postponement request from Papa Massata

  • Athletics

where he and his father Lamine stand accused of corruption and money laundering linked to the Russian doping

in January after new evidence emerged - today.The 87-year-old stands accused of covering up Russian doping

Prosecutors allege he solicited €3.45 million (£3.1 million/$3.9 million) from athletes to conceal their doping

absentia.Both deny wrongdoing.Lamine Diack's former advisor Habib Cisse and Gabriel Dolle - the former anti-doping

Rose-Marie Hunault.Dolle denied taking bribes and told the court he had helped keep a low profile on Russian doping

including Macky Sall's bid for the 2012 Senegal Presidential election, in exchange for the IAAF anti-doping


"I’ll let my actions speak" says Papandrea in robust response to calls for entire IWF Board to quit

  • Weightlifting

Ursula Papandrea, who played a lead role in bringing about the downfall of the disgraced former weightlifting leader Tamás Aján, says she and her Board at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) are being unfairly criticised.

The US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis Tygart, the athletes’ representative body Global Athlete

When I supported the new anti-doping policies I found myself at times being one of a couple to uphold

have never been the supporter of any one person but of a philosophy of good governance and strong anti-doping

lest we continue to divide the sport along perceived lines, from within or outside.United States Anti-Doping


AIU confirms Naser was being investigated when she won world 400m title

  • Athletics

Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain was under investigation for whereabouts failures when she stormed to a shock gold medal in the 400 metres at last year's World Athletics Championships in Doha, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said today.

investigated for three missed tests prior to the World Championships in Doha.The AIU, which handles doping


Sport’s new normal - the shape of things during and after the coronavirus crisis

  • The Big Read

As the world of sport ponders on how best to return to action when the coronavirus crisis allows, there is a common requirement - maintaining the safety and health of participants and spectators.  But how to go about it? When to return? And with what changes, temporary or long-term?

prohibited method too - while baseball pitchers are forbidden to lick their fingers.Athletes used to anti-doping

on COVID-19 testing - and greater responsibilityTesting, for many years the reality of athletes in a doping


RPC planning for Russian representation in 19 of 22 Paralympic sports at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) President Vladimir Lukin is anticipating the country sending almost 280 athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games next year, despite uncertainly over whether or not Russia will be allowed to compete.

should the Court of Arbitration for Sport uphold sanctions imposed on the country by the World Anti-Doping



Papa Diack requests further postponement of trial due to inability of lawyers to travel

  • Athletics

Papa Massata Diack has requested the postponement of a trial where he and his father Lamine - the ex-President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - are among the defendants, as two of his regular lawyers are unable to travel to Paris for the case.

©Getty ImagesThe trial of the Diacks, Gabriel Dollé, former director of the IAAF's medical and anti-doping

is facing a potential 10-year prison sentence for allegedly taking bribes to cover up tests showing doping


Former Russian biathlon coach claims doping was widespread in past years

  • Biathlon

Former Russian biathlon coach Anatoli Khovantsev has admitted that he could "count clean biathletes on one hand" as recent as six years ago, but has stressed he believes it is now harder to cheat in the sport.

Khovantsev has claimed that a whole generation of biathletes were doping, but said that was no longer

 He confided in sports.ru about systemic doping in the nation saying: "Between 2002 and 2014

In biathlon, a whole generation was brought up on doping, returning to a normal technique is not easy

Italian police following a request from the International Biathlon Union.Loginov, who served a two-year doping

the coaches who are currently working are reaping the fruits of these years when Russia experienced doping


WADA publishes guidelines for remote learning amid COVID-19 pandemic

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published guidelines for Anti-Doping Organisations (ADOs) on

 "This of course has impacted the delivery of some aspects of anti-doping programmes, including

differing ways technology is used and available around the world.WADA has also stressed that although anti-doping


FIE President Usmanov brings super-yacht to Britain

  • Fencing

The world's sixth-longest super-yacht, owned by International Fencing Federation (FIE) President Alisher Usmanov, has arrived in Britain.

to the FIE over a period of around three Olympic cycles.Usmanov has been a critic of the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) too, telling then-WADA President Sir Craig Reedie not turn the fight against doping into


Three Russian doping positives from 2015 announced by IWF

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) today announced three doping positives for Russian athletes

The Russian Weightlifting Federation President, Maxim Agapitov, who received copies of the positive doping

with the Russian cases, said a spokesperson, because the positive results came from the World Anti-Doping

Policy, which refers to doping violations based on evidence from witnesses or other investigations rather

might also theoretically lead to a suspension under the three-in-a-year rule, though if the 2015 Anti-Doping

took over as President of the national federation in 2016, only one Russian has been suspended for doping



McLaren reveals how Aján used “vote brokers” to swing weightlifting elections with bribes of up to $30,000

  • Weightlifting

Tamás Aján took more than $600,000 (£472,000/€530,000) in cash to successive International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) electoral congresses, and spent much of it on bribes to buy votes, according to the McLaren report on corruption in weightlifting.

exclusive control of the IWF bank accounts, collection and handling of cash membership fees and member doping


Women's 400m world champion Naser provisionally banned for whereabouts failures

  • Athletics

The women's 400 metres world champion, Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for whereabouts failures.

suspended Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain for whereabouts failures, a violation of the @WorldAthletics Anti-Doping

the rules recently, as was compatriot Gabrielle Thomas.Athletes in the testing pool must provide anti-doping

champion in the discipline.She is not the first imported Bahrain athlete to be charged with an anti-doping

Kirwa, who won silver at the Rio 2016 behind another doper, Kenya's Jemima Sumgong, was also given a doping