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Pozdnyakov promises ROC will do everything possible to ensure Russian flag flies at Tokyo 2020

  • News

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) will do everything in its power to ensure the country's athletes compete under their own flag at Tokyo 2020, the body's President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has promised.

to compete at next year's Olympic Games.As part of a four-year period of sanctions, the World Anti-Doping

last year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang as part of a range of punishments for the nation's doping

and may be ruled out of bidding for the 2032 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games if the Russian Anti-Doping


Exclusive: Thai weightlifter loses Youth Olympics gold medal for doping

  • Weightlifting

A teenage Thai weightlifter has forfeited her gold medal from the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires last year.

weightlifter to have tested positive in the past 14 months, and the ninth female Thai teenager to fail a doping

test since 2011.Of the 18 Thai doping violations since 2011, not one featured a lifter older than 24

central to a proposal from some members of the 21-strong IWF executive board for a change in its anti-doping

nation currently excluded from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.Egypt, which has also had multiple teenage doping


Data tampering from Russia throws into doubt 145 cases, WADA report concedes

  • News

hamper the prosecution of up to 145 cases stemming from the facility, a report from the World Anti-Doping

Committee ordered the country to hand it over as part of the reinstatement criteria for the Russian Anti-Doping

to retrieve the data, a key tool in building cases against athletes involved in the state-sponsored doping

scheme.Russia's flag could be banned from major events if the World Anti-Doping Agency Executive Committee


Lasitskene again in limbo after British Athletics withdraw Glasgow invitation

  • Athletics

European Athlete of the Year Mariya Lasitskene has had an invitation to compete at next year's World Athletics Indoor Tour event in Glasgow withdrawn, due to uncertainty over the future status of Russian athletes.

Federation (RusAF) was last week charged by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for obstructing an anti-doping


WADA confirm Russia to remain as host of matches at UEFA European Championship

  • Football

Championship is unaffected by recommendations the country be banned from staging major events, the World Anti-Doping

rather a regional/continental single-sport event".UEFA is also not a direct signatory of the World Anti-Doping

Moscow Laboratory, as well as planting fabricated evidence.Other proposed sanctions if the Russian Anti-Doping


David Owen: The credibility of the fight against doping will be on the line in Paris on December 9

  • Inside the Blogs

Ahead of Rio and Pyeongchang, when the question of imposing doping crisis-related sanctions on Russia

In 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was quickly at loggerheads with the World Anti-Doping

Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has recommended a long list of "consequences" of the Russian Anti-Doping

in the last month of WADA President Sir Craig Reedie's stewardship - a six-year period in which anti-doping

Earlier this month, Bach used his speech to the Fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport in Katowice

hear that the proposed 'Guidelines and framework on consequences for the UNESCO Convention on Anti-Doping



Kremlev blames Russian sports leaders for WADA crisis

  • Olympics

Russia's sports leaders are to blame for the situation that has left the country facing a four-year ban from international competition, the general secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation Umar Kremlev has claimed. 

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has recommended that the Russian

Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant once again and a series of measures to be taken

should not dictate the conditions, it's the body which is designed to monitor compliance with anti-doping


IIHF President claims moving World Championships from Russia would be "impossible"

  • Ice Hockey

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has claimed moving the sport's 2023 World Championships away from Russia would be "impossible".

comment to Russia's official state news agency TASS, following the recommendation made by the World Anti-Doping

Agency's (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) yesterday.The WADA CRC recommended for the anti-doping

watchdog to sanction Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) for a four-year period.This followed "an extremely



Russian Olympic diving gold-medallist Zakharov banned for 18 months

  • Diving

Russian Olympic springboard diving champion, Ilya Zakharov, has been suspended for 18 months for anti-doping

springboard.Zakharov has been suspended for a year-and-a-half for skipping three out-of-competition doping

Arbitration for Sport (CAS), with the disqualification starting from November 22 2019.Vlasenko said the doping

I have never been and will never be consuming doping," he said."

I have decided to finish my career and this is why I skipped doping testing."


IOC support "strongest sanctions" against those responsible for manipulating Moscow Laboratory data

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) claims it will support the toughest sanctions possible for those responsible for manipulation of the Moscow Laboratory data, welcoming the opportunity for Russian athletes to compete should they demonstrate they are not implicated by non-compliance.

sport itself and is an insult to the sporting movement worldwide".The IOC also noted the World Anti-Doping

organisation's Executive Committee.WADA's CRC recommended a four-year sanction against the Russian Anti-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."

Russian Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Yuriy Granus has claimed that he can see no grounds on which


Ethiopian marathon runner receives provisional suspension after positive EPO test

  • Athletics

Ethiopian marathon runner Etaferahu Temesgen Wodaj received a provisional suspension from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after allegedly testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. 

decision at a hearing conducted under the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) anti-doping

four countries included in Category A - Member Federations the IAAF believe are most likely to have doping

Federation launched a major education programme among young athletes to warn them of the dangers of doping


World Taekwondo Council to meet in Moscow with evolution and innovation key themes

  • Taekwondo

World Taekwondo's development guidelines for 2020 and anti-discrimination policy will be among the key items presented for approval at the international governing body's Extraordinary Council Meeting in Moscow next month.

Council will also review proposed amendments to a number of procedures, including finance and anti-doping


NOCZ strategic plan to improve support for Zambian athletes

  • ANOCA

A strategic plan for the National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) was set during the nation's first Athletes' Commission Forum in Lusaka. 

Educative and informative sessions at the Forum included an introduction to the Athlete365 platform, anti-doping