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Kipchoge among 11 IAAF nominations for Male Athlete of the Year - but no place for shot putters

  • Athletics

Eliud Kipchoge, who became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours on Saturday (October 12), was among 11 nominees announced today for the Male Athlete of the Year award he won for a first time in 2018.

athletes who trained at the Nike Oregon Project that was shut down last week in the wake of the four-year doping

gold.Christian Coleman, who only appeared at the IAAF World Championships after a narrow escape from a doping


Moroccan half-marathon record holder banned for four-years after positive EPO test

  • Athletics

Morocco's Mustapha El Aziz has been officially banned for four-years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO), it has been announced.

 Morocco had been placed on a "watch list" of countries most at risk of doping by the International

Federations but were removed in 2017.Earlier this month, German broadcaster ARD aired a programme about doping

in Morocco.They claimed there remained in the country "a doping culture" and was "a paradise for sports


World Taekwondo hold first coach certification course in Egypt

  • Taekwondo

Over 200 coaches attended World Taekwondo's first certification course, held in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

participants from 13 countries, including 50 coaches from Egypt and 73 from Arab and African nations.Anti-doping

course.Safeguarding, medical and emergency care and mental health awareness were also discussed.Anti-doping


Kosgei takes more than a minute off Radcliffe's world record in retaining Chicago Marathon title

  • Athletics

Brigid Kosgei broke Paula Radcliffe’s 16-year-old women’s world record today as she retained her Chicago Marathon title in 2 hours 14min 04sec - a day after her Kenyan compatriot Eliud Kipchoge had become the first man to better two hours for the distance.

race that had seen home runner Jordan Hasay, whose coach Alberto Salazar was banned for four years on doping


Sir Mo and Rupp faces Salazar-related questions on eve of Chicago Marathon

  • Athletics

Defending champion Sir Mo Farah and 2017 winner Galen Rupp will run in tomorrow’s Chicago Marathon at the end of a build-up where the biggest name involved has been that of their former coach, Alberto Salazar.

The latter received a four-year ban from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) at the start of


Russia considering bid for 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship

  • Ice Hockey

Russia look set to submit a bid for the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship.

next year.It is possible the Russian bid for the event may not get off the ground if the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency is declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency for manipulating data from the Moscow


Kenyan positives continue to mount with another marathon runner banned

  • Athletics

Marathon runner Philip Sanga Kimutai has become the latest leading Kenyan to be suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for banned drugs.

 A German television programme broadcast last month claimed doping was widespread in Kenya ©ZDFLast

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


Double Olympic champion Dwyer retires after 20-month doping ban

  • Swimming

gold medallist Conor Dwyer has announced his retirement from swimming after he was given a 20-month doping

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said the 30-year-old two-time Olympic relay champion had

Janeiro also pointed out how the panel had said he bore "no significant fault or negligence" for the anti-doping



Operation Aderlass whistleblower banned for life for doping

  • Cross-Country

Games in Sochi for the use of Erythropoietin, has been banned for life for his alleged involvement in a doping

As reported by Associated Press, the Austrian Anti-Doping Legal Committee said the 32-year-old was found

guilty of blood doping, the possession and use of banned substances, as well as passing them on to other

the whistleblower for Operation Aderlass, the Austrian police investigation which uncovered a blood doping

cycling for their alleged involvement.The operation was launched after Dürr made revelations about blood doping

d'Italia after the provisional suspension was announced.The International Cycling Union says Koren's doping



International Teqball Federation signs landmark agreement with ITA for doping control

  • Teqball

International Teqball Federation (FITEQ) and the International Testing Agency (ITA) have signed a two-year anti-doping

achieve its goal of promoting the highest standards of professionalism in all areas.The ITA offers anti-doping

sporting or political powers to International Federations, major event organisers and all other anti-doping

We firmly believe the ITA will ensure the best possible delivery of our anti-doping programmes, and we

Cohen added: "The ITA is honoured to team up with FITEQ for the provision of anti-doping services for

We are looking forward to providing independent expertise to ensure that robust anti-doping programmes


Thailand's Intanon cleared of anti-doping violation by BWF

  • Badminton

Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon has been cleared of doping violations after the Badminton World Federation

The world number five was charged with an anti-doping violation in May after she tested positive for

five women’s singles player Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand was found to be in violation of the BWF Anti-Doping

The Ethics Hearing Panel determined Ms Ratchanok Intanon committed an anti-doping rule violation, but

consumption".In July 2016, Intanon was cleared of any wrongdoing by a BWF Hearing Panel after failing a doping

acetonide.Better known as corticosteroid, the substance is banned during in-competition testing by the World Anti-Doping


UCI ban two Slovenian cyclists linked to Operation Aderlass

  • Cycling

two-year bans following Operation Aderlass, the Austrian police investigation which uncovered a blood doping

Both cases have been resolved via an acceptance of consequences as provided for by the World Anti‐Doping

Code and the UCI Anti‐Doping Rules," UCI said."

Both resolutions can be appealed by the competent National Anti‐Doping Organisation and the World Anti‐Doping

ring.The operation was launched after Austrian skier Johannes Dürr made revelations about blood doping

were among seven cyclists implicated in the scandal.Both were found to have used "autologous blood doping


Rugby union player banned for four years as sport's list of shame grows

  • Rugby Sevens

Leigh Dearden has become the latest rugby union player suspended from all sport by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD

) following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation.

A decision in the case of @EnglandRugby v Leigh Dearden has been published by the National Anti-Doping

Resolutions (@SportRes_UK) October 9, 2019"Once again, an athlete has been banned from sport after an anti-doping

Stephen Watkins, the Rugby Football Union’s anti-doping and illicit drugs programme manager, added: "

All rugby players are subject to the anti-doping rules which are in place to protect players and the