A total of 27 Russian sportspeople have failed drugs tests for meldonium, the country’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has revealed today.

Mikhaltsov and Alena Mikhaltsova have been provisionally suspended, while biathlete Eduard Latypov and volleyball

The Sambo World Cup is set to begin here in Russia’s capital tomorrow as athletes from 25 countries battle it out for honours across two days of action at the Druzhba Multipurpose Arena.

Olympic Games.The Druzhba Multipurpose Arena, which forms part of the Luzhniki Sports Complex, hosted volleyball

preliminaries during the Games and is the regular home venue of Russian women's volleyball club WVC

The Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) has claimed it is up to the nation’s volleyball

federation to impose a ban on convicted rapist and promising beach volleyball star Steven Van de Velde

to say whether they would issue a ban on the athlete and instead shifted the issue onto the Dutch Volleyball

consent.Sex with anyone below 16 outside marriage is also considered rape according to the law.The Dutch Volleyball

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed he would be prepared to resign should he decide to take personal responsibility for the doping crisis in the country.

Mikhaltsov and Alena Mikhaltsova have been provisionally suspended, while biathlete Eduard Latypov and volleyball

Home fans were left celebrating a Brazilian double at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB)

Evgeny Saleev, a 2014 World Championship silver medallist in wrestling, is one of five Russian athletes who have reportedly become the latest to test positive for the banned drug meldonium but the country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko claims the problem is a separate issue to the wider doping crisis.

and Ukrainian runner Nataliya Lupu, the European Indoor 800m champion in 2013.Wrestlers, biathletes, volleyball

Sprinter Nadezhda Kotlyarova, a 4x400 metres relay European Indoor silver medallist in 2013, has become top Russian sports star to fail a doping test for meldonium, her coach has admitted. 

Ukrainian runner Nataliya Lupu, the European Indoor 800m champion in 2013.Wrestlers, biathletes, volleyball

with The Netherlands’ Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen to reach the final of the International Volleyball

Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt booked their place in the quarter-finals of the International Volleyball

pool, were forced to come through a first round tie in this event that is part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball

The analysis of B-samples for four leading Russian skaters have all tested positive for meldonium, the International Skating Union (ISU) have confirmed.

champion Yuliya Efimova, who also failed a drugs test for the second time in her career.Russian rugby and volleyball

Nummerdor and Christiaan Varenhorst finished top of a tightly contested men’s Pool C at the International Volleyball

continued their excellent recent form by recording two victories as the main draw of the International Volleyball

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has taken another pot-shot at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for its decision to ban meldonium, the drug for which Russians have now failed tests in at least nine different sports.

and Ukrainian runner Nataliya Lupu, the European Indoor 800m champion in 2013.Wrestlers, biathletes, volleyball

Four-time world swimming champion Yuliya Efimova has become the latest high profile Russian athlete to have failed a doping test for meldonium, it has been widely reported this evening.

runner Nataliya Lupu, the European Indoor 800 metres champion in 2013.Wrestlers, biathletes, volleyball

Luciano Ferreira de Paula won an all-Brazilian qualifying match on the opening day of the International Volleyball

What a relief," said Araújo, who won top honours at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in