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World champion canoeist Takacs facing four-year ban after positive test

  • Canoeing

World champion canoeist Tamara Takács of Hungary is facing a four-year ban after she tested positive for a prohibited substance.

Federation (ICF) said the 22-year-old, a three-times European champion, had been informed of the anti-doping

out of competing at next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.Tamara Takács will miss Tokyo 2020 if the anti-doping


WADA identifies nearly 300 athletes with most suspicious data from Moscow Laboratory

  • News

having the most suspicious samples in data retrieved from the Moscow Laboratory and the World Anti-Doping

it has provided the International Federations with the first batch of Russian cases.The global anti-doping

commenced assessment of the evidence with a view to identifying those cases to take forward as anti-doping

rule violations against those found to have been part of the state-sponsored doping scheme orchestrated

left to do but we wish to acknowledge the ongoing cooperation with IFs as well as the Russian Anti-Doping

although the decision from WADA not to punish Russia was criticised by largely Western National Anti-Doping


Swiss bobsledders receive Sochi 2014 two-man gold medals stripped from Russia

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

gold medals from Sochi 2014 after Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda were stripped of the title for doping

two-man crown at Sochi 2014 but were both later disqualified for their role in the state-sponsored doping

Sochi 2014 behind the Russians Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda,later stripped of their title for doping

four-man team which finished fourth at the Games, were also suspended for their involvement in the doping

scandal and the quartet have filed appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).The World Anti-Doping

medals after the IOC said he had been guilty of knowingly participating in the manipulation of the anti-doping


Kenyan marathon runner facing life ban after suspended by AIU for second positive test

  • Athletics

Salome Jerono Biwott has become the latest Kenyan athlete to be charged with an alleged doping offence

metabolite of the anabolic steroid nandrolone and bolandione, with the substance appearing on the World Anti-Doping

now serving provisional suspensions.A further 42 Kenyans are listed by the AIU as serving bans for doping

— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) June 25, 2019Among the other Kenyans suspended for anti-doping

act to make doping an offence which could be punished by imprisonment.The country’s recent doping woes

however, that there had been no evidence of institutionalised doping.The report instead claimed the doping


Russian team of 275 athletes arrives in Italy for Naples 2019

  • Naples 2019

A team of 275 Russian athletes has arrived in Naples for the 2019 Summer Universiade, due to begin here on Wednesday (July 3). 

athletes given permission to compete by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Doping

Federation has been suspended by the IAAF since November 2015 following allegations of state-sponsored doping


Marius Vizer, the IOC's changing culture and redemption through boxing

  • The Big Read

Home again from sweltering Lausanne after a series of meetings that I ended up feeling taught us quite a lot about how the modern International Olympic Committee (IOC) operates.

the sports movement a bloody nose over what they may perceive as the humiliation of the interminable doping

aspect of the Black Sea resort of Sochi’s toxic legacy for the Olympic Movement: not the notorious anti-doping


EOC President criticises Russian doping ban as closes European Games in Minsk in front of Putin

  • Minsk 2019

The 2nd European Games have officially come to an end as the Flame of Peace was put out at the Closing Ceremony here tonight.

Russia, who topped the medal table with 44 golds, 23 silver and 42 bronze, referencing the country's doping

The sporting world has faced many problems over recent years, the main issue being doping," he said."

We will continue the fight towards clean sport, with a zero tolerance towards doping."

Every athlete who commits doping offence should be penalised, but not the country as a whole."


Bach and Putin to attend Minsk 2019 Closing Ceremony

  • Minsk 2019

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to attend tomorrow's Closing Ceremony for the European Games here.

was elected IOC President in 2013, which was then marred by allegations of Russian state-sponsored doping

President Thomas Bach and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for the first time since the Russian doping


Russian weightlifter Lomova handed four-year ban

  • Weightlifting

suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) earlier this year in view of a potential anti-doping

Belarus, Moldova and Turkey – banned in 2017 by the IWF for having multiple positives in the retesting of doping



Exclusive: Coe set to be re-elected as IAAF President for second term unopposed

  • Athletics

Sebastian Coe is set to be re-elected as President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) unopposed after the deadline for nominations closed with him as the only candidate.

 Coe's first term has been dominated by the Russian doping crisis and corruption allegations involving

from International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Richard Pound into allegations of state-sponsored doping

have been allowed to compete as "Authorised Neutral Athletes" providing they meet a strict set of anti-doping


Denifl and Preidler receive four-year bans after doping confessions amid Operation Aderlass investigation

  • Cycling

Georg Preidler and Stefan Denifl have been handed four-year bans, following their admission of blood doping

the arrest of athletes from sports including skiing and cycling for their alleged involvement in the doping

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

pair having been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union.Austrian National Anti-Doping

confirmed Preidler and Denifl will serve four-year bans.Both were found to have used "autologous blood doping

“Since it was agreed that the disciplinary proceedings would be conducted by the Austrian Anti-Doping


WADA hoping that more than 100 anti-doping cases based on Moscow data will be brought in "first wave"

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is hoping that a first wave of more than 100 anti-doping cases will

Chernyshov, had both been banned for four years by the International Biathlon Union (IBU) for anti-doping

rule violations (ADRVs).Both were suspected of doping based on analysis of the Moscow LIMS database.Both

ineligible by the IBU because of an ADRV "under aggravating circumstances (participating in an organised doping


Two Russian biathletes given four-year bans for doping based on evidence from Moscow Laboratory

  • Biathlon

Chernyshov have both been banned for four years by the International Biathlon Union (IBU) for anti-doping

Pechenkin and Chernyshov were suspected of doping based on analysis of the Moscow Laboratory Information

ineligible by the IBU because of an ADRV "under aggravating circumstances (participating in an organised doping

Sport.Pechenkin and Chernyshov were among four Russians against whom the IBU filed cases with its Anti-Doping

cases of Russian biathletes Mr Alexandr Pechenkin and Mr Alexander Chernyshov, who were suspected of doping

IBU External Review Commission came about largely as a result of criminal investigations focused on doping


Russian Athletics Federation announce doping bans for middle-distance pair

  • Athletics

Athletics Federation (RusAF) has banned middle-distance runners Artyom Leonenko and Natalya Khokhlova for doping

her samples tested positive for methylhexanamine, a nasal decongestant prohibited by the World Anti-Doping

domestic results.An IAAF ban issued on RusAF in November 2015 remains in place due to the country's doping

scandal.Russia has been accused of an institutional scheme of doping and cover-ups which has seen numerous