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Bach confirms IOC bound by WADA decision on Russia

  • Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) to observe any sanctions against Russia handed down by the World Anti-Doping

Monday (December 9) would be binding on the IOC as the organisation is a signatory of the World Anti-Doping

Code.WADA's ruling body is expected to declare the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) non-compliant

Everything that is connected with a doping scandal reminds me already of an endless anti-Russian soap

 "This is what is the most annoying here, as we all know well about all of these cases [of doping


World Taekwondo move to strengthen governance, athlete welfare and anti-doping policies

  • Taekwondo

strengthening its policies in a variety of key areas, including governance, athlete welfare and anti-doping

 The Council agreed to strengthen the responsibility and processes of the Medical and Anti-Doping

Council also reaffirmed World Taekwondo's commitment to promoting clean sport by combating match-fixing, doping

Therefore, we look forward to working closely with the newly appointed President of the World Anti-Doping



Weightlifting's future "at risk" in potentially divisive IWF Executive Board meeting

  • Weightlifting

The strength of Tamás Aján's leadership of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will be tested in Lausanne tomorrow, at a meeting that could have a profound effect on the sport's future.

from international competition in March after a series of violations left it with the worst recent doping

is also in favour of retaining the independent sanctions panel that punishes countries with multiple doping

offences, such as Thailand, and is proposing further reforms to the IWF anti-doping strategy via a new

Thailand, many of whose doping violations have been by teenagers, and Egypt are both banned outright

Even if Dr Ajan was the person in charge in the doping culture, he is now presiding over change."


Doping could be criminalised in Kenya, top athletes warned at conference

  • Athletics

Kenya could introduce criminal penalties for athletes caught doping it has been claimed, as an Athletics

Kenya conference focused on anti-doping got underway.

prior to the event.According to Reuters, Mohamed claimed the Government are working on a stronger anti-doping

doping.This could involve jail terms, it was claimed.Kenya introduced criminal laws as part of an anti-doping

Kenya, while it made doping an offence which could be punished by imprisonment.Revised legislation was

total of 44 Kenyan athletes are currently suspended for doping offences.Between 2004 and August 2018

, 138 Kenyan athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a World Anti-Doping


WADA claim revision to testing standard will provide benefits to athletes at Tokyo 2020

  • News

specific gravity for analysis will be applied during next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, the World Anti-Doping

instead of the current 1.005 or above.WADA is hopeful the changes will mean athletes spend less time in doping

revisions to the ISTI will have benefits for athletes at major events as they will spend less time at a doping

make the process "more athlete-friendly, while presenting a potential saving in resources for Anti-Doping


David Owen: The Russian doping crisis - will WADA bite the bullet?

  • Inside the Blogs

this week's blog and, yes, eagle-eyed readers will spot it is the same as last week's: the Russian doping

For one thing, a week is a long time in anti-doping politics, and some important details have changed.You

remember that key December 9 meeting at which the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) top brass are to consider

the recommendation from their Compliance Review Committee (CRC) that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency

Committee (ExCo), whose December 9 deliberations are now so vital to the credibility of the war on doping

backing on December 9 for the full CRC proposals would be a public-relations disaster for the anti-doping


IOC claim over 20,000 samples could be stored as part of long-term programme

  • Olympics

Around 22,000 samples could be stored in a long-term programme managed by the International Testing Agency (ITA) and funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the organisation's Executive Board claimed here today.

help fund the scheme, which will see the organisation help International Federations and National Anti-Doping

President Thomas Bach promised the organisation would contribute the amount at the World Conference on Doping

statement.Samples can be stored for up to 10 years from the date of collection under the World Anti-Doping



Kenyan teenage runner banned for four-years after Buenos Aires 2018 positive

  • Athletics

Kenyan teenage runner Angela Ndungwa Munguti has been officially suspended for four-years after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids.

African Youth Games in Algiers as she won that in July 2018 - two-and-a-half months before she failed the doping

 Munguti, the first Kenyan teenager to be banned for doping, joins a growing list of runners from

positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.There are currently 44 Kenyan athletes suspended for doping

2018, 138 Kenyan athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a World Anti-Doping


Russian weightlifting launches investigation after TV revelations of doping "crimes"

  • Weightlifting

Federation (RWF) has launched an internal investigation after a television documentary claimed "anti-doping

committed by weightlifters in collaboration with Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the national anti-doping

believed to have taken place between 2012 and 2015, the same period that accounts for most of the 12 doping

United States in a witness protection programme after becoming a "whistle-blower" for the World Anti-Doping

evidence led to the publication of the McLaren Report, which suggested there had been state-sponsored doping

talk of Russia being banned from Tokyo 2020 after more recent revelations about manipulation of anti-doping

to a competent anti-doping organization - RUSADA or IWF (International Weightlifting Federation) - to



Tokyo 2020 marathon course set to be among key items discussed at IOC Executive Board

  • Olympics

Russia's doping crisis, the sports programme for the 2022 Summer Youth Olympic Games and the Tokyo 2020

gathering of the IOC's ruling body this year, however, is set once again to be dominated by the Russian doping

 It will take place less than a week before the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is expected to declare

the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) non-compliant.As part of a four-year period of sanctions, the


Exclusive: Usmanov on course to lift aggregate donations to FIE to $80 million by 2020

  • Fencing

The International Fencing Federation (FIE) has reported a surplus of CHF2.78 million (£2.16 million/$2.8 million/€2.53 million) for 2018 thanks to a mammoth CHF16.34 million (£12.7 million/$16.4 million/€14.85 million) in donations from Alisher Usmanov, its Russian billionaire President.

2008 Congress in Paris.His generosity to fencing has continued throughout a period when the Russian doping