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High jumper Mahuchikh wins Piotr Nurowski Best Young Athlete prize

  • EOC

Ukrainian high-jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh was awarded the Piotr Nurowski Best Young Athlete prize by the European Olympic Committees (EOC).

2012 but was reassigned gold following the disqualification of Russia's Tatyana Lysenko due to an anti-doping




British bobsleigh team to receive Sochi 2014 bronze medals

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Britain's four-man bobsleigh team will receive their Sochi 2014 bronze medals at the Team GB Ball on November 21, the British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced.

bronze medal.It followed Russia-s gold-winning team, led by Alexandr Zubkov, being disqualified for doping

This is another example of Team GB athletes denied their moment on the rostrum at an Olympic Games by doping


Exclusive: IOC warn weightlifting over Thailand's attempt to reverse self-imposed exile

  • Weightlifting

Weightlifting's place on the Olympic Games schedule could once more come under threat because of attempts by Thailand to return to international competition, according to documents seen by insidethegames.

its team at the 2018 IWF World Championships tested positive, leaving Thailand with the worst recent doping

them also tested positive in out-of-competition tests.As of April this year, there were 12 unresolved doping

panel was brought into existence by the IWF executive board in 2017, as one of many changes to anti-doping

Agency)".Russia is one of the nations reduced to sending only two athletes to Tokyo because of past doping

work was a fail" and that the sport is still in a "doping scandal risk zone".Agapitov said such a training


Nike chief executive to step down after Salazar doping scandal

  • Athletics

American shoe company's most high-profile employees Alberto Salazar was banned because of his links to doping

Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah, after Salazar was suspended for four years by the United States Anti-Doping

Agency for alleged doping violations linked to the project.


Liam Morgan: IBU take first steps into new era but work still to be done

  • Inside the Blogs

Candidates for any high-profile role, both inside and outside of sport, are notorious for making promises and then failing to keep them.

International Association of Athletics Federations - to manage all integrity related matters, including anti-doping

RBU) was relegated to provisional membership in December 2017 as punishment for the state-sponsored doping

the Moscow Laboratory, increasing drugs testing and cooperation with investigations into allegations doping

have sanctioned Russian athletes based on the Moscow Laboratory data and McLaren Report.The World Anti-Doping

meant for the IBU but said it would be a "disaster" if the accusations - which a senior Russian Anti-Doping



American golfers Garrigus and Every criticise PGA Tour drugs policy

  • Golf

American players Robert Garrigus and Matt Every have hit out at the Professional Golf Association's (PGA) drug policy following their respective three-month suspensions.

Tour earlier this week.Both cases involved the use of cannabis, a substance which is on the World Anti-Doping


Tokyo 2020 to headline two OCA regional forums in Bangkok

  • OCA

Tokyo 2020 will be the focus at two Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) regional forums in Bangkok next month.

will be discussed at the forum ©Getty ImagesSports competitions, accreditation, medical services, anti-doping


WADA independent observer team praise "robust" European Games anti-doping programme

  • European Games

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent observer (IO) team at this year's European Games in Minsk

praised its "robust" anti-doping programme.

 Coffey, of UK Anti-Doping, led the four-person IO team which observed and provided feedback on

all aspects of doping control.This included the implementation of general anti-doping policies and procedures

“The anti-doping programme implemented at the European Games was comprehensive, robust and risk-based

Foundation, Shafag Huseynli of the Azerbaijan National Anti-Doping Agency and Florence Lefebvre-Rangeon

use exemption.The decisions regarding the remaining two findings have not yet been disclosed.A anti-doping


Croatian boxer Bačurin handed four-year suspension for anti-doping violations

  • Boxing

boxer Ivica Bačurin has been suspended from all sport for four years after being found guilty of anti-doping

included metabolites of metandienone, testosterone and trenbolone.Bačurin was charged with an anti-doping

estimated to contain an abnormally high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio.The United Kingdom Anti-Doping

Boxer, Ivica Bačurin, has been suspended from all sport for a period of four years following an Anti-Doping

https://t.co/jDuQO0WfuV pic.twitter.com/sA0AYcO9jX— UK Anti-Doping (@ukantidoping) October 22, 2019A

tribunal before a National Anti-Doping Panel was held on September 19 2019, where Bačurin was handed


Rodchenkov Act passed in U.S. House of Representatives

  • News

The Rodchenkov Act, which would criminalise international doping fraud conspiracies and give American

 The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act (RADA) - as it is officially known - now needs to be passed by the

 "With the passage of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act in the U.S.

House of Representatives, the fight against doping rises to a new level of efficacy.

 "This legislation brings a long-awaited weapon to bring doping transgressions to a court of law

The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act has passed in the House!


WADA and FRQ to fund three artificial intelligence projects

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is funding three projects to explore the possible uses of artificial

intelligence (AI) in the global anti-doping programme.

area to be explored and WADA believes there is enormous untapped potential for its use within anti-doping

three complementary projects will help shed some light on the extent of AI's potential in the anti-doping

projects that we will raise the understanding of the impacts that AI could have on the fight against doping

perceptions of different stakeholders regarding the use of AI and its benefits in the context of anti-doping

and to guide dialogue between WADA, other anti-doping organisations, athletes and the general public.The


African Games 10,000 metres champion tests positive for EPO

  • Athletics

Ethiopia's African Games 10,000 metres champion Berehanu Tsegu has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for Erythropoietin (EPO), it has been announced.

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