Japan's Ryosuke Irie underlined his status as a Japanese hope for home gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by racing to his second title at the International Swimming Federation Champions Swim Series leg in Beijing.

men's 400m freestyle in 3:44.98.The three-time Olympic champion is still awaiting the result from a doping

night of September 4 to 5 last year.He denies wrongdoing and blamed a lack of credentials possessed by doping

International Boxing Association (AIBA) Marketing Commission chairman Umar Kremlev claimed their new Continental Forums give the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "no reason not to reinstate" the organisation.

Forum consists of many parts, such as marketing, performance, refereeing, judging, governance, anti-doping

If we don’t have problems as before, with anti-doping, governance, finance, refereeing, judging and ethics

Pavel Kolobkov has stepped down as Russian Sports Minister after the entire Government resigned following President Vladimir Putin's annual state-of-the-nation address.

over the role, but his successor will be forced to deal with the continued fallout from the Russian doping

also claimed his country had done everything possible to address the allegations after the World Anti-Doping

Kolobkov will step down after the entire Russian Government resigned ©Getty ImagesThe Russian Anti-Doping

on the WADA Foundation Board before he was axed from the body after allegations of state-sponsored doping

Home hero Sun Yang produced the goods on the opening day of the inaugural 2020 International Swimming Federation Champions Swim Series in Beijing, China, touching ahead of rival Danas Rapšys to win the men’s 200 metres freestyle.

targeted a fourth Olympic title in Tokyo this year, although he is still awaiting the result from a doping

night of September 4 to 5 last year.He denies wrongdoing and blamed a lack of credentials possessed by doping

latter distance at the FINA Champions Swim Series event in Beijing today ©Getty ImagesThe World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) dispute this and insist the credentials of the doping control officials were in order.A

Kenya President Jackson Tuwei has claimed the suspension of so many of the country's top runners for doping

has drafted a bill to Kenya's Ministry of Sports to be taken to Parliament in order to criminalise doping

calls for Kenya, like Russia, to be banned from international competition because of the high number of doping

 "As a country, we are aware of the consequences of doping and that is why we opted to work with

 "Athletes should know that with the kind of machinery in the fight against doping, dopers have

nowhere to hide and it is either they embrace clean sport or hang their spikes, because the anti-doping

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) is set to explain its ongoing reforms to the National Federations of more than 35 American countries at the first Continental Boxing Forum here tomorrow. 

reforms made to statutes, governance, competition format, development programmes for coaches, anti-doping

potentially harmful anabolic steroids or similar substances in order to reshape their bodies, new UK Anti-Doping

numbers of young males are taking potentially dangerous steroids for cosmetic reasons, new UK Anti-Doping

This highlights the need for a greater multi-agency approach between Government, anti-doping agencies

is the latest Kenyan athlete to be provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping

available for out-of-competition drugs tests.Kipketer was suspended for failing to avail himself for doping

 The AIU added that "provisional suspension imposed in a non-doping case does not in any way abrogate

former marathon world-record holder Wilson Kipsang was suspended for a similar violation.World Anti-Doping

the credibility of Kenyan athletics.Kipketer joins the growing list of Kenyan athletes suspended for doping

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has called an extraordinary meeting of its Executive Board in Qatar next week in response to allegations of corruption made in a German television documentary.

Committee (IOC) - including a new Olympic qualifying system that compels lifters to undergo far more doping

tests than before, and asking the International Testing Agency (ITA) to manage anti-doping procedures.There

have also been severe punishments of countries with a bad doping record now and in the past, including

Olympic quota places and an outright ban from Tokyo 2020 for Thailand and Egypt.The documentary Secret Doping

investigate the allegations".Andrews also said that HUNADO should be investigated by the World Anti-Doping

Andrei Minakov of Russia and Katinka Hosszú of Hungary won two golds each on the last day of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Champions Swim Series event in Shenzhen.

 One of these was achieved by Sun Yang, who is still surrounded by doping controversy.

rugby union player Henry Hadfield has been suspended from all sport for two-years following an anti-doping

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) announced that the 24-year-old received the ban after higenamine and its metabolite

 Higenamine is listed under section S3 of the World Anti-Doping Agency 2019 prohibited list.Hadfield

was subsequently charged with violating World Rugby anti-doping regulation 21.2.1 entitled "presence

 The charge was then referred to the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) for determination of the

supplement he was using contained a Prohibited Substance, resulting in Mr Hadfield falling foul of anti-doping

Moroccan marathon runner Al Mahjoub Dazza has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on suspicion of using a prohibited substance.

said to indirectly reveal that an athlete has doped.This is in contrast to attempting to detect the doping

Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye will miss the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, after receiving a two-year ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit for three alleged whereabouts failures.

times so they can be drug-tested at random.Missing three tests in 12 months is the equivalent of a doping

noted that there was no challenge to the first two missed tests constituting breaches of the IAAF anti-doping

rules.Ahye claimed that she did not hear the doorbell ring or the knocking of the doping control officer

 The United States Doping Agency, who claimed they were acting on advice from the World Anti-Doping

Reigning Wimbledon doubles champion Robert Farah has tested positive for a banned substance, having pulled out of the Australian Open for "personal reasons".

I did an anti-doping test in Shanghai which had a negative result.

the sport, Chilean player Nicolas Jarry has also been provisionally suspended, under the Tennis Anti-Doping

sample on November 19 2019 in association with the Davis Cup Finals held in Madrid, Spain.The World Anti-Doping

Non-Specified Substances carry a mandatory Provisional Suspension.On January 4, Jarry was charged with an Anti-Doping

40 in March 2019.He is also the grandson of Jaime Fillol, who won seven ATP titles.The Tennis Anti-Doping

Panama is set to host the very first International Boxing Association (AIBA) Continental Forum, which aims to inform National Federations of amendments to statutes and the organisation's ongoing reform process.

changes being made to statutes, governance, competition formats, development programmes for coaches, anti-doping