Stanislav Pozdnyakov criticised the "illogical and excessive" punishment handed down by the World Anti-Doping

(WADA) as the country's Sports Minister claimed the nation "did everything possible" to address the doping

the nation is set to be stripped of major events it has already been awarded after the Russian Anti-Doping

including the Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, provided they can prove they were not part of the doping

presence and participation in international sport severely curtailed for four years, after World Anti-Doping

©Getty ImagesFormal notice will now be sent to RUSADA, alleging non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping

Code for failing to provide an "authentic" copy of Moscow anti-doping laboratory data.The CRC has alleged

Committee strong decision today shows WADA’s determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping

For too long, Russian doping has detracted from clean sport.

 "Russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and re-join the global anti-doping

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has held its 16th General Assembly in Frankfurt, with the integrity of sport and the situation of trainers in national sport the main topics.

DOSB intends to further intensify its work in the areas of good governance, combating match-fixing and doping

Fernando Reis, the Brazilian weightlifter who finished fifth in his home Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, is convinced he can win a medal at Tokyo 2020 and give the sport a huge boost in the process.

Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.Nobody has come closer than Reis and now, thanks largely to doping

some of his strongest rivals.Uzbekistan's Rustam Djangabaev is among Fernando Reis' rivals banned for doping

Djangabaev - who was ahead of fourth-placed Reis at the 2018 IWF World Championships - was suspended for a doping

will not compete at Tokyo 2020 because the IWF has penalised their national federation for multiple doping

recently from "clean" weightlifters who feel they were cheated out of a fair chance during decades of doping

the lack of a level playing field throughout a lifting career made so much more difficult because of doping

of their Federation being penalised by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for multiple doping

Reis is set to be a real medal contender in the super-heavyweight division at Tokyo 2020 due to the doping

and failed, through the courts to overturn their bans from Tokyo 2020, imposed because of multiple doping

has, in theory, taken away as many as 80 possible quota places from the countries that clearly had a doping

International Fencing Federation (FIE) has urged Sir Craig Reedie, his counterpart at the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA), not to turn the fight against doping into a "lynching".

Finsbury on the eve of a meeting of the WADA Executive Committee at which the credibility of the anti-doping

I fully support the most severe sanctions against any doping offenders but only if the decisions are

for the second time for the same doping violation.

The purpose of the World Anti-Doping Code is to protect the athletes’ fundamental right to participate

in doping-free sport.

fight against drugs will be on the line in the Olympic capital tomorrow when members of the World Anti-Doping

before being handed over to investigators, as required under conditions for reinstating the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency (RUSADA)’s compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code in September 2018.The CRC now wants RUSADA

manipulation", which it characterised as an "insult" to the sporting movement worldwide.World Anti-Doping

Russia (@Olympic_Russia) December 8, 2019Jorge Leyva, chief executive of the Institute of National Anti-Doping

transparent and independently verified".There is, Leyva said, "an eminent risk of losing trust in the anti-doping

Another top Kenyan marathon runner has been suspended for four-years, after being found guilty of doping

half-marathon at the 2011 All-African Games in Maputo.Nearly 50 Kenyan athletes are currently suspended for doping

members in top five positions.But this is the second time the 35-year-old Kibarus has been involved in a doping

The Olympic Summit has "strongly condemned those responsible for the manipulation of the data from the Moscow Laboratory" before it was transferred in January this year - but again vowed to make sure that Russian athletes are allowed to compete at Tokyo 2020 and signalled it would not support a total ban on the country hosting major international events. 

Russian Olympic Committee, at a time his country is facing unprecedented punishment after World Anti-Doping

WADA Executive Committee in Lausanne on Monday (December 9) where it is expected that the Russian Anti-Doping

Topics in the agenda: Athlete Support, Growing Politicisation of Sport, Tokyo 2020, Fight Against Doping

Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) having regard to the Council of Europe Anti-Doping

Convention and the UNESCO International Convention Against Doping in Sport."

Alexander Bolshunov usurped a strong Norwegian contingent to claim the honours at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Cross-Country World Cup event in Lillehammer. 

event.Ten-time world champion Johaug, who missed last year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang because of a doping

Germany's Olympic and world bobsleigh champions, Francesco Friedrich and Mariama Jamanka, start the defence of their overall World Cup titles at the season-opener in Lake Placid that gets underway tomorrow.

Sochi 2014 gold and bronze medals stripped from them in the wake of investigations into the Russian doping

Vin Lananna has been reinstated as President of USA Track & Field (USATF) following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), nearly two years after being put on "temporary administrative leave".

who wrote the 134-page opinion on the suspension of Sir Mo Farah's former coach Alberto Salazar in a doping

Therese Johaug and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway are expected to triumph at their home International Ski Federation (FIS) Cross-Country World Cup event in Lillehammer. 

Ten-time world champion Johaug, who missed last year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang because of a doping

The European University Sports Association (EUSA) announced registration is open for the European Universities Games 2020 in the Serbian capital Belgrade.

social aspects of university sport in Europe, featuring conferences and workshops on the topics of anti-doping

International Olympic Committee (IOC) is concerned when its Executive Board backed a tough stance against doping

sanctions panel melted away, and a new collaboration with the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) Anti-Doping

Division was approved.Thailand’s attempt to return to competition, despite a self-imposed ban for multiple doping

Bucharest in Romania.That good news for Romania was tempered by the announcement, also today, of another doping

division of CAS will make the IWF compliant with the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code.Brent Nowicki, managing

 The Romanian doping violation was by Paul Dumitrascu, a 19-year-old 73 kilograms lifter.With 17