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Track agent Wagner accepts two-year ban and is free to work in athletics again

  • Athletics

Track agent Robert Wagner has accepted a two-year suspension after being charged with breaking integrity standards when he told an undercover reporter he could supply them with performance-enhancing drugs.  

American sprinter Justin Gatlin at the time and made comments suggesting Gatlin and "everybody else" was doping

make an actor look like an athlete.Robert Wagner has claimed Justin Gatlin and "everyone else" were doping

was the track agent for at the time of the newspaper report being published, has served two bans for doping



Irish sprinter backs World Athletics' Olympic qualification freeze

  • Athletics

Irish sprinter Phil Healy has backed World Athletics' decision to suspend Olympic qualification until December despite strong opposition from some athletes.

results achieved between now and December cannot count towards Tokyo 2020 places.Others cited that anti-doping


National Sports Council Malaysia to continue weightlifting programmes despite IWF sanctions

  • Weightlifting

National Sports Council Malaysia pledged to continue elite programmes for weightlifters despite recent sanctions by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF).

However, they have to strictly adhere to the anti-doping rules in place."

coronavirus pandemic.The sport was originally excluded due to its tarnished image, following three doping

Perak.Malaysia are banned from sending weightlifters to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to multiple doping

August 8 2021 because of the pandemic.Malaysia were punished after three weightlifters were caught doping

however, if the organisation can demonstrate it has adhered to criteria designed to prevent further doping


Olympic synchronised swimming champion Romashina hints at retirement before Tokyo 2020

  • Artistic Swimming

Russia’s five-time Olympic synchronised swimming champion Svetlana Romashina has hinted she may retire before the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021. 

 Romashina also revealed the result of the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and

the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may influence her

any World Championships it has been awarded.Athletes who can prove they were not implicated in the doping


Indian Paralympic high jumper Kumar stuck in Ukraine due to pandemic

  • Paralympics

Indian Paralympic high jumper Sharad Kumar revealed he is currently stuck in Ukraine due to restrictive measures put in place worldwide because of the pandemic. 

finished fourth in the T42 high jump at the Rio 2016 Olympics, having missed out on London 2012 due to a doping


Mauritania latest country to ratify UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport

  • News

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Convention against Doping

agreement - Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Niue.World Anti-Doping

Mauritania becomes 189th country to ratify UNESCO Anti-Doping Convention ?

this convention, it joins 98% of world governments that have already pledged their support to the anti-doping

Organization while remaining an important member of Africa's Zone 1 Regional Anti-Doping Organization

Established in 2005, the International Convention against Doping in Sport represented the first time


Exclusive: Euromeetings group asks World Athletics to "re-consider" Olympic qualification freeze

  • Athletics

The Euromeetings group, representing European one-day meetings, has added its voice to those calling on World Athletics to reverse this year’s freeze of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying window.

possible only at designated events which meet the necessary organisational level and where solid anti-doping

results this season during a period where athletes are being tested less due to restrictions on anti-doping


CAS uphold suspension for Russian athletics coach Eremenko

  • Athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld an appeal from the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA

Eremenko was accused of bribing a doping control officer at the 2017 Russian Athletics Championships,

but had initially been cleared by the anti-doping panel of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in

sought a urine sample from hurdler Yulia Malueva, who was coached by Eremenko.Malueva tried to avoid the doping

Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (Switzerland) changed the decision of the Disciplinary Anti-Doping

it was September 2017, when it was only two months after RUSADA’s right had been reinstated to hold doping



ITF open Fed and Davis Cup video archives in absence of live matches

  • Tennis

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has opened its Fed Cup and Davis Cup video archives for fans to watch while there are no live matches taking place. 

masks will be used for Regional Training Centres, Development Officers, officials, ITF staff & anti-doping

masks will be used for regional training centres, development officers, officials, ITF staff and anti-doping


"Sport cannot control itself" says man behind documentary that led to Aján’s exit from IWF

  • Weightlifting

The man whose TV documentary helped to end Tamás Aján’s domination of world weightlifting has called for more independent involvement in governance because "sport cannot control itself".

control distribution, doping sample manipulation, doping payment irregularities, doping activities in

A clear and easy example: if doping remains undetected, sport has always benefited from it."

It is not a history of doping alone, it’s a history of cover-up over decades."

programme which meets the standards of the IOC and World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) is in place."

Unfortunately there has always been that dark cloud of doping, which he never really resolved."


Tributes paid to Gottfried Schödl – the man who led weightlifting through three decades of transformation

  • Weightlifting

The world of weightlifting has paid tribute to Gottfried Schodl, a man who led the sport through three decades of transformation, following his death at the age of 95.

then allowed back in after its National Olympic Committee paid a fine, because of out-of-competition doping

Doping was his greatest enemy.

He was referring of course to young kids being clean from doping."

A true antagonist of doping, he suffered so much when told of more adverse analytical findings and used

He said to me: 'Sam, not only do we have doping cheats we also have thieves among our people'.


Finality of sanctions and Osaka rule prevent doping ban changes for Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

Richard Young and Ulrich Haas, the co-drafters of the World Anti-Doping Code, have highlighted the finality

drug cheats, who would have been excluded from the Games had they taken place this year because of a doping

blocked from Tokyo 2020 under the revised dates.Young was the lead drafter of the first World Anti-Doping

at creating harmonisation, with the goal to boost confidence of athletes and the public in the anti-doping

the Olympic Charter - was originally drafted to allow the IOC to prevent athletes who had received a doping

overturning the British Olympic Association's bylaw, which banned any athlete convicted of a serious doping


USADA begin virtual testing of athletes during coronavirus pandemic

  • News

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has begun testing athletes virtually using video conference

in several countries due to measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus.The World Anti-Doping

135,000.Conducted using the Zoom conferencing application or on FaceTime, the virtual testing involves doping

the device is placed outside the door.This differs to the normal urine collection process, where a doping