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IOC Executive Board to hear first proposals from taskforce established following AIBA suspension

  • Olympics

A taskforce established to deliver qualification events and the boxing tournament at Tokyo 2020 following the suspension of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) is expected to make its first recommendations when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board holds its latest two-day meeting.

from organisers of Olympic Games, including Tokyo 2020, while changes to the bidding process, anti-doping




Russia replace 10 athletes in Minsk 2019 athletics team with those with neutral status

  • Minsk 2019

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has replaced 10 athletes in its European Games athletics team for Minsk 2019 with those with a neutral status approved by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

RusAF has been suspended since 2015 when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence through an

Independent Commission of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.Russian athletes are required to apply

Integrity Unit also still needs to review the Moscow Laboratory data it has received from the World Anti-Doping


Russian runner Denmukhametov suspended over claims he worked with banned coach Kazarin

  • Athletics

Russian 400 metres runner Artyom Denmukhametov has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for allegedly working with banned coach Vladimir Kazarin.

Athletes are not allowed to receive training or advice from coaches serving doping bans, according to

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules.Kazarin was banned for life in 2017 after a WADA report found

performance-enhancing drugs.Kazarin, who was named European coach of the year in 2011, was found guilty of multiple doping

administration.The AIU said on Twitter that the charge follows an investigation conducted with the Russian Anti-Doping

is the latest crisis to hit Russian athletics which has been accused of an institutional scheme of doping


WADA recommends dismissal of two Romanian National Anti-Doping Agency officials after finding doping

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended that the director general and President of the Romanian

National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) are both dismissed from their posts.

investigatory report found that the body had directed the Bucharest Laboratory to cover up positive doping

reinstated the accreditation and that the Laboratory was, therefore, able to resume all of its anti-doping

2016.Pop did not report the findings, the report said, and instead entered the samples into the Anti-Doping

weightlifter Gabriel Sîncrăian, who has already been disqualified from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games due to doping


Star gymnast Hancharou headlines 221-strong Belarusian team for Minsk 2019

  • Minsk 2019

Rio 2016 Olympic gymnastics champion Uladzislau Hancharou has been included in the 221-strong team representing host nation Belarus at the upcoming Minsk 2019 European Games.

and Chef de Mission Vyacheslav Durnov announced the team news at a press conference ©Minsk 2019Anti-doping

procedures were also discussed at the press conference, with the director of Belarus's National Anti-Doping



Olympic gold medallist steps down as first vice-president of Russian Athletics Federation while facing doping

  • Athletics

Beijing 2008 high jump gold medallist Andrei Silnov has stepped down from his post as first vice-president of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF).

revealed Silnov was being investigated by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) following the reanalysis of doping

is the latest scandal to hit Russian athletics, which has been accused of an institutional scheme of doping

that their drug-testing has taken place outside of the Russian system.Yury Ganus, the Russian Anti-Doping



Recovering Froome set to be awarded 2011 Vuelta a España title after winner Cobo found guilty of doping

  • Cycling

Cycling Union (UCI) announced today that winner Juan José Cobo of Spain had been found guilty of an anti-doping

win the first of his six Grand Tours in 2013 at the Tour de France.Cobo was found guilty of an anti-doping

violation based on abnormalities from 2009 and 2011 detected in his biological passport.The UCI Anti-Doping

The Union Cycliste Internationale announces that the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal has rendered its decision

The Anti-Doping Tribunal found the retired rider guilty of an anti-doping rule violation (Use of a prohibited

In accordance with the procedural rules of the Anti-Doping Tribunal, the decision will be published on


Kenyan marathon runner banned after testing positive for rat poison

  • Athletics

Felix Kirwa has become the latest Kenyan long-distance runner to receive a ban after failing a drugs test.

not use a prohibited substance", and violated International Association of Athletics Federations anti-doping

that Kirwa had accepted their punishment and had not requested a B sample, but said the World Anti-Doping

Agency and the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya have a right of appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport

in Lausanne, Switzerland.Around 50 Kenyan athletes have been sanctioned for doping violations in the

1500 metres and 2008 Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop received a four-year ban in April after failing a doping


British javelin thrower to receive Beijing 2008 bronze medal at Anniversary Games in London

  • Athletics

Great Britain's Goldie Sayers will belatedly receive her Olympic javelin bronze medal from Beijing 2008 in front of a home crowd at next month's Anniversary Games.

Goldie was denied the opportunity to celebrate in Beijing over a decade ago, due to doping cheats, so

World Championships in Daegu and bronze at the 2009 edition in Berlin, but she was disqualified over doping


Russian Olympic gold medallist confirms investigation by Athletics Integrity Unit and could lose first vice-president role

  • Athletics

has revealed he is being investigated by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after the reanalysis of doping

is the latest scandal to hit Russian athletics which has been accused of an institutional scheme of doping

Silnov as the first vice-president in connection with the fact of his possible violation of the anti-doping

never-ending disgrace still have the courage to leave," she said on Instagram.Yury Ganus, the Russian Anti-Doping