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WADA vice-president claims companies with Russian interests spied on her and family

  • News

Outgoing World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) vice-president Linda Helleland has claimed she was spied on

Norwegian companies acting "on behalf of Russian interests" during the fallout from the state-sponsored doping

reinstatement last year ©Getty ImagesHelleland was one of only two officials to vote against the Russian Anti-Doping



Sun claims testers at fault for row amid translation problems at CAS hearing

  • Swimming

Three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang blamed a lack of credentials possessed by doping control officers

said he was unable to trust the officers who arrived at his home in Zheijang Province.The World Anti-Doping

Agency, appealing the decision from the International Swimming Federation (FINA) doping panel to only

issue Sun with a warning, said in response that the credentials of the doping control officials were

in order.In its ruling, FINA's independent doping panel declared the attempted sample collection "invalid

control form was ripped up.The court heard how the doping control officer wanted to leave the residence


Sun set for public CAS hearing as WADA seek ban of up to eight years

  • Swimming

Three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang is facing a ban of up to eight years if the World Anti-Doping

significant step in the well-publicised case to date.In January, the confidential ruling from FINA's doping

Sunday TimesIt alleged that a security guard smashed the blood vial after a late-night dispute with doping


Kune stripped of All Africa Championships silver medal for doping but BWF appealing decision to CAS

  • Badminton

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is taking its own Doping Hearing Panel to the Court of Arbitration

In a statement, the BWF revealed the panel had found Kune had committed an anti-doping rule violation

verdict to the CAS as it "touches upon the interpretation of fundamental principles of the World Anti-Doping

Code and the anti-doping regulations".Kune, a four-time African champion and double African Games gold


International Ice Hockey Federation launch legal aid programme

  • Ice Hockey

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has introduced a legal aid programme for those who face disciplinary procedures from the governing body.

season, legal aid can be applied for any disciplinary proceedings, including matters relating to anti-doping



Kiptum handed four-year ban as Kenyan doping woes continue

  • Athletics

Kenya's Abraham Kiptum has been handed a four-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit over an athlete biological passport (ABP) violation.

know each other's opinions when each first opined that the athletes ABP consistuted likely evidence of doping

Moreover, the expert panel has unanimously confirmed its view of likely doping on two occasions after

provisional suspension on April 26.Kiptum is among 44 Kenyan athletes to be currently suspended for doping

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


Alan Hubbard: This unseemly rugby ruck is just not playing the game

  • Inside the Blogs

Shortly after England had stunningly demolished the All Blacks in the semi-final of the Rugby World Cup, the back-page headline in one of Britain's posher papers asked: "Is rugby now our national sport?"

English rugby in more ways than one ©Getty ImagesHardly a week goes by during the season without UK Anti-Doping


USA Weightlifting chief executive expresses support for independent adjudication of anti-doping

  • Weightlifting

(IWF) general secretary Mohamed Jaloud that the world governing body should outsource all its anti-doping

hold an extraordinary meeting in Lausanne in the first week of December.The ITA is now overseeing anti-doping

I agree entirely with the general secretary that we should outsource every bit of our anti-doping operation

The IWF, under Mr Aján and Mr Jaloud's leadership, has made significant progress in tackling doping,

panel, including experts such as Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations chair Michael Ask and

German National Anti-Doping Agency President Andrea Gotzmann, which seems to satisfy the suggestions


Belarusian wrestler stripped of European Games gold medal for doping

  • Minsk 2019

medal he claimed in the Greco-Roman 130 kilograms event at this year's European Games in Minsk for doping

Sabah Shariati, whose result is unaffected by Hryshchanka being disqualified.Hryshchanka is facing a doping

event was found to have contained meldonium, prohibited in and out-of-competition by the World Anti-Doping


CAS confirm Salazar appeal with hearing unlikely to be held before March

  • Athletics

Hearings in the cases involving Alberto Salazar and doctor Jeffrey Brown are unlikely to be held before March, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced after confirming they had appealed their respective four-year bans.

the two officials, who were sanctioned following an extensive investigation by the United States Anti-Doping

submissions and evidence", the CAS added.Salazar was banned for "orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping

multiple athletes.Salazar was also said to have tampered, or attempted to tamper, with NOP athletes' doping

also banned for four years.No athletes have been charged with any offences, although the World Anti-Doping

of the Netherlands are among those to have been coached by Salazar.Neither has been charged with a doping



Aján under fire as unhappy IWF Executive Board members call for scrapping of doping sanctions panel

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifting Federation (IWF) should scrap the body that dishes out punishment to nations with multiple doping

The ITA is now overseeing anti-doping procedures for the IWF through a partnership signed just over a

Tamás is not fighting against doping, he is fighting against individuals in an attempt to retain his

whom may be subject to disciplinary decisions made by the panel.Weightlifting has overhauled its anti-doping

devised a new Olympic qualifying system in the past two-and-a-half years.Those nations with the worst doping

The ITA would give us advice, make recommendations (about multiple doping offences) and the Executive