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Bach reassures Russian athletes they have same rights as other countries until CAS doping ruling

  • Olympics

other country until the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivers its ruling in the long-running doping

athletes pending the CAS decision after Russia appealed the range of sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping

as the Olympic Games, while only Russian competitors who can prove they were not implicated in the doping

A final decision has not been taken on the doping issues and the manipulation of the data in Russia,

Russian athletes are enjoying the same rights and obligations as all the other athletes.”The Russian Anti-Doping

Tokyo.Should CAS rule in WADA's favour, it will be mandatory for all signatories of the World Anti-Doping


Documentary team counter IOC and IWF statements with new evidence of weightlifting "corruption"

  • Weightlifting

New evidence of manipulated doping samples has been released by the makers of a German television documentary

International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and Hungary's national anti-doping

agency (HUNADO).They claim their evidence regarding finance and doping shows that some of the comments

and the IWF, where he has been general secretary and President since 1976.Accusations made in Secret Doping

the German state broadcaster ARD were "very serious and worrying", the IOC said.There were claims of doping

agency and the European Anti-Doping Agency.


ITA to hold education workshops and anti-doping programme at Lausanne 2020

  • Lausanne 2020

provide athletes with an immersive learning experience at Lausanne 2020, as well as overseeing the anti-doping

the Games, with the organisation set to use a number of paperless solutions for the first time for doping

organisation claims this will contribute to the sustainability of the third edition of the Games.Anti-doping

work will be held in collaboration with Lausanne 2020 and Anti-Doping Switzerland.During the Games,

giving athletes an "immersive learning experience of the testing process".This will include an anti-doping

the Youth Olympics are scheduled to take part in the Real Sport Lab during the Games.The World Anti-Doping


FIS ban three athletes and coach for role in blood doping scandal

  • Skiing

Three cross-country skiers and a coach have been banned for four years by the International Ski Federation (FIS), following a police raid at last year's Nordic Ski World Championships in Seefeld.

are the latest to be sanctioned as part of an Austrian police investigation which uncovered a blood doping

their alleged involvement.The operation was launched after Johannes Dürr made revelations about blood doping

All have been sanctioned with a four-year suspension based on FIS anti-doping riles, article 2.2, use

of a prohibited substance/method, namely blood doping and article 2.9, complicity," the FIS said."

network.Dürr, suspended for two years after being sent home from Sochi 2014 for doping, is among the


United States calls for retesting of stored samples after weightlifting corruption claims

  • Weightlifting

Two of the most senior figures in weightlifting in the United States and Russia have called for investigations into claims of corruption in the sport made by a German television documentary.

(IWF) from recent World Championships and other events.The IOC admitted accusations made in Secret Doping

the Lifters by the German state broadcaster ARD were "very serious and worrying".There were claims of doping

the sport" since 2017.Weightlifting had been in danger of losing its Olympic status because of its doping

to the agenda of a meeting of the IWF Executive Board.Russian weightlifting has had a bad record in doping

Meanwhile, TAWA has rejected the documentary’s claims about doping in Thailand, where an undercover team


Coates hoping to use Lausanne 2020 to promote Queensland bid for 2032 Olympics

  • Brisbane 2032

Queensland's campaign to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games is set to move into a new, potentially significant, stage here this week when Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates presents its bid to leading officials.

barred from putting forward a candidature under a series of punishments proposed by the World Anti-Doping

Agency against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency after data transferred from the Moscow Laboratory was


Iranian Paralympic medallist suspended for nine months after positive drugs test

  • Athletics News

Committee (IPC) has suspended Iranian athlete Asadollah Azimi for nine months for committing an anti-doping

 This substance is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List for 2019, under

The IPC would like to remind all athletes the principle of strict liability applies to anti-doping matters

As a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code (WADC), the IPC claims it remains committed to a doping-free

Code to prevent doping in sport for Paralympic athletes, in the spirit of fair play.

 The IPC Anti-Doping Code is in conformity with the general principles of the WADC.


Weightlifting allegations set to headline agenda at IOC Executive Board meeting

  • Olympics

Allegations of corruption and doping in weightlifting will be among the main topics discussed when the

escalating diplomatic tension between the United States and Iran on sport, and the protracted Russian doping

documentary screened by German state broadcaster ARD on Sunday (January 5), which included claims of doping

dominated headlines this week.The programme - made by the team which was first to reveal systematic doping

who has been general secretary and President of the IWF since 1976.It alleged financial malpractice, doping

and secretly recorded a conversation with an Olympic medallist that produced damning evidence about doping


Olympic figure skating champion Sotnikova a victim of fortune-telling scam

  • Figure Skating

Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova has been revealed as a victim of a fortune-telling scam in Russia.

the Vancouver 2010 champion, should have been awarded the gold.In 2017, Sotnikova was cleared of a doping

their home Sochi Games.She was named in an evidence disclosure package published with the World Anti-Doping




IWF hits back at corruption claims and turns focus on "organised doping" in Thailand

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has strongly rejected claims of doping cover-ups and

mismanagement made in a German television documentary, and has said it is concerned about possible "organised doping

the accusations in the programme were "very serious and worrying", and the most senior figure in anti-doping

Olympic status.The IOC said it had set up a Disciplinary Commission to "immediately follow up on the doping

Thailand at London 2012.On Sunday night the German state broadcaster ARD aired the documentary Secret Doping

in Thailand.After watching the documentary Andrea Gotzmann, chair of the National Anti-Doping Agency

efforts and claimed it had been running "a progressive and extensive anti-doping programme, which has


Lawyer criticises process following reveal of Phillip positive test at Lima 2019

  • Lima 2019

A lawyer representing cyclist Njisane Phillip has criticised Panam Sports following the organisation’s publication of a revised Lima 2019 medal table, which revealed the Trinidad and Tobago athlete had failed a drug test.

month.It followed the Panam Sports Executive Committee approving disqualifications following 15 positive doping

the TT [Trinidad and Tobago} team, to state that the assertion of and ensuing consequences of an anti-doping

SportsMarcus has since claimed the substance involved in the case has been deemed by the World Anti-Doping

We have been very careful with the issue of doping at the Pan American Games of Lima 2019, respecting


"Weightlifting’s doping cover-ups and missing millions" - German TV documentary targets IWF President

  • Weightlifting

German television documentary broadcast today alleges corruption and cover-ups in weightlifting, in doping

, and secretly records a conversation with an Olympic medallist who claims girls as young as 13 are doping

The programme, Secret Doping – the Lord of the Lifters, claims millions of dollars paid to the International

the main target of the investigation by ARD, the German state broadcaster that revealed systematic doping

century.He also served as a member of the IOC until 2010.For decades weightlifting has been beset by doping

the past decade that the IOC threatened to withdraw its Olympic status.After an overhaul of its anti-doping

issues talk openly about doping," he told ARD."


Bolshunov and Johaug win overall Tour de Ski titles as Klæbo’s high hopes collapse

  • Cross-Country

Therese Johaug earned her third overall Tour de Ski title today as she won the concluding grand final event in Val di Fiemme, but hopes of a Norwegian double were ended as leader Johannes Høsflot Klæbo was dramatically overhauled by Russia’s Alexander Bolshunov,

four-times winner Justyna Kowalczyk.Johaug may already have beaten that record but for the 18-month doping