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World Anti-Doping Agency to meet Russia to discuss laboratory inconsistencies later this month

  • Olympics

participation at next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo could become clearer later this month, when the World Anti-Doping

held in London or Paris on December 9 to discuss whether a ban should be reimposed on the Russian Anti-Doping

Committee on the compliance procedure here earlier this week on the eve of the fifth World Conference on Doping

claimed Russia had failed to satisfactorily answer questions about the anomalies from the Laboratory.ARD Doping

 WADA experts copied 24 terabytes of information on Russian athletes' doping samples collected between

 By the end of April, they had collected 2,262 doping samples stored in 4,524 containers.So far,



Bańka to urge sponsors to back WADA in anti-doping battle

  • News

Incoming World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has claimed corporate sponsors need to

WADA on January 1 next year when he replaces Sir Craig Reedie, and raising much-needed funds to fight doping

of approximately $35 million (£27 million/€32 million) annually, while the overall spending on anti-doping

around the world, including by National Anti-Doping Agencies, is believed to be around $260 million

raised for the organisation," he told delegates at the opening session of the fifth World Conference on Doping

Only a small fraction is spent on anti-doping each year compared to what television companies like NBC



IOC wants International Federations and NADOs to store drugs samples for 10 years

  • Olympics

provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to International Federations and National Anti-Doping

(£2 million/€2.3 million) into research and another $2.5 million into strengthening the World Anti-Doping

Investigative Unit.Bach urged International Federations and NADOs attending the fifth World Conference on Doping


Dutch Olympian Ghafoor jailed for eight-and-a-half years

  • Athletics

Dutch Olympic athlete Madiea Ghafoor has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for drug smuggling and trafficking.

Athletics Championships last year ©Getty ImagesAt Kleve District Court, she claimed to have been carrying doping

The Athletics Union condemns any use or trade in doping or drugs and fully commits itself to the Dutch

doping law."


Russian Bobsleigh Federation sack head coach of national team

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Oleg Sokolov has been sacked as head coach of the Russian national bobsleigh team, after 16 regional coaches demanded he be dismissed from the role.

disgraced predecessor Alexander Zubkov, stripped of his two Olympic gold medals from Sochi 2014 for doping


Gene testing could be introduced at Tokyo 2020 as latest weapon to catch cheats, IOC President reveals

  • Tokyo 2020

Gene testing could be introduced in time for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach announced here today.

weapon in the war against drug cheats, Bach told the opening session of the fifth World Conference on Doping

in Sport organised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) here."

genetic sequencing progressing well, this new approach could be a ground-breaking method to detect blood doping

after it took place," Bach told an audience of 1,600 delegates from the Olympic Movement, national anti-doping

involves identifying changes to the body's genetic signature as a result of the two forms of blood doping


WADA success since formation 20 years ago damaged by Russian doping scandal, admits Sir Craig

  • News

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie claimed here today that the Russian doping

scandal is the "worst case of system failure... in the entire history of the anti-doping movement" but

Opening the fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport here, Sir Craig hailed the progress made since

WADA was established in 1999, but admitted the controversy surrounding the state-sponsored doping system

Back in 1999, there was still no one single answer to tackling doping in sport.

into the fully operational National Anti-Doping Organisation it is today, ensuring that the anti-doping

World Anti-Doping Code and International Standards.


Teenager latest Kenyan runner to fail drugs test

  • Athletics

Teenager Angela Ndungwa Munguti is the latest Kenyan athlete to fail a drugs test and face a doping ban

1987 New York City Marathon.She is the second African teenager in less than a month to be charged with doping

1500 metres gold medallist Asbel Kiprop is one of 44 Kenyan athletes currently banned or suspended for doping

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


Athletes coached by Salazar to be investigated by WADA, Sir Craig promises

  • Athletics

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has promised his organisation will "look at

The 61-year-old American was found guilty of doping violations earlier this year after a four-year investigation

by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).The Nike Oregon Project (NOP), where Salazar worked

concerned," Sir Craig told British news agency PA on the eve of the fifth World Conference on Doping


WADA to launch new app to help athletes comply with whereabouts rule

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is to launch to a new app to help athletes comply with whereabouts

a few years and required modernising, has been released on the eve of the fifth World Conference on Doping

limited number of top-level athletes within the registered testing pool (RTP) to provide their anti-doping

several top athletes to have been caught up in problems because of the whereabouts rule designed to fight doping

improve the athlete experience in complying with their whereabouts requirements under the global anti-doping

responses were received which, WADA claim, have helped shape the app's specifications, powered by the Anti-Doping


WADA confirm nearly 50 cases based on Moscow Laboratory evidence sent to International Federations

  • News

Evidence of 47 cases obtained by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) from the Moscow Laboratory have

to gather evidence and information against athletes allegedly involved in Russia's state-sponsored doping

Laboratory in January.The WADA Executive Committee, meeting on the eve of the fifth World Conference on Doping

briefed the Executive Committee on the compliance procedure currently underway against the Russian Anti-Doping

in Sport is supposed to be the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code and International Standards that were subject

This week is an important one for WADA and the broader anti-doping community, and I am pleased with the


French Government’s sports spending set to jump in 2020

  • Paris 2024

The French Government’s spending on sport is set to rise sharply in 2020, as the country continues its build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

the 2020 European Athletics Championships ©Getty ImagesAmong highlighted elements, the fight against doping

million (£9.6 million/$12.4 million), a figure that includes France’s contribution to the World Anti-Doping

(WADA).The French State will also pick up most of the cost of an impending move of the French Anti-Doping


FIFA and ASEAN sign collaboration agreement

  • Football

FIFA has signed a "comprehensive" memorandum of understanding with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

particular the Football for Schools programme.Women's football, child safeguarding and the fight against doping