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International Biathlon Union makes move to help tackle doping

  • Biathlon

from next season will be required to provide a certificate confirming that they have completed an anti-doping

than a month after the IBU announced plans to establish an independent integrity unit to handle anti-doping

External Review Commission (ERC) came about largely as a result of criminal investigations focused on doping

Norway, and secretary general Nicole Resch, a German.This included allegations made by the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) Intelligence and Investigations Department that Besseberg had covered up anti-doping rule

interim report by the ERC, a further status update report by the IBU Independent Working Group on anti-doping


Semenya reiterates intention to compete at IAAF World Championships after winning at Meeting de Montreuil

  • Athletics

Caster Semenya reiterated her intention to defend her 800 metres title at the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships after cruising to victory over 2,000m at the Meeting de Montreuil – her first race since filing an appeal against the IAAF's ruling to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.

end its pursuit of female runners with high testosterone levels and instead concentrate on catching doping

They should focus on doping, not us."I’m never going to take drugs."


ISA and World Surf League announce anti-doping agreement in preparation for Tokyo 2020

  • Surfing

The International Surfing Association (ISA) and World Surf League (WSL) have announced an anti-doping

WSL is not a formal signatory to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code, a requirement for athletes

or events seeking Olympic eligibility.The body has therefore agreed to implement an anti-doping programme

under ISA's anti-doping rules to ensure compliance for Olympic qualification.

stakeholders of the Olympic Movement to ensure greater transparency and credibility in global anti-doping

supports the collaboration between the ISA and the WSL to coordinate and bring together their anti-doping




Lasitskene calls for change at Russian Athletics Federation after IAAF extend ban for 11th time

  • Athletics

Russia's leading athlete Maria Lasitskene has called for a change at the top of the sport in the country following a decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) yesterday to continue its ban. 

management, "It’s also about the current coaches who are still sure that you can’t win without doping

Russian Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Yuri Ganus last month called for top officials at the RusAF

involved in forged paperwork being submitted to help Russian world indoor champion Danil Lysenko avoid a doping

Undeniably, there are still many issues in the Russian athletics, there are cases of anti-doping rules


Lithuanian canoeist could lose Olympic silver medal after admitting becoming latest positive from London 2012

  • Canoeing

Russian-born Lithuanian sprint canoeist Jevgenij Shuklin could lose the Olympic silver medal he claimed at London 2012 after he admitted he had tested positive for a banned substance.

In a rare case of an athlete publicly revealing they have committed a doping offence, Shuklin told Lithuanian

silver medal he won at London 2012 if the IOC Disciplinary Commission confirm he committed an anti-doping

rule violation at the Games.Shuklin appears to be the latest athlete caught doping in the IOC's retests

 "I have always worked with doping controllers, I have not received any warnings, so I am 100 per


Russian former world canoe sprint champion Zhestkov given four-year doping ban

  • Canoeing

Former world champion Oleg Zhestkov has been given a four-year doping ban after he tested positive for

1,000 metres title in 2013, was caught in an out-of-competition test conducted by the Russian Anti-Doping

, cyclist Alexander Budaragin and swimmer Olesya Moiseeva on the list of Russian athletes serving a doping


Brian Oliver: American Cummings on top of the weightlifting world - and Commonwealth Games deserves some of the credit

  • Inside the Blogs

Anybody who takes a serious interest in weightlifting will be checking the Olympic ranking lists when results from the second and third competitions in phase two are added into the mix.

famous, or infamous, name of recent years, Ilya Ilyin, who is trying to qualify for Tokyo 2020 after a doping

overhaul of the sport when it was threatened with expulsion from the Olympic Games because of its terrible doping

Coast 2018 system", offers more benefits than removing uncertainty and saving money, not least on the doping

athletes must turn out at least six times in that 18-month period.The size of the team from UK Anti-Doping



IAAF extends Russian suspension for 11th time following allegations of forged documents and suspended coaches remaining active

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has extended the Russian Athletics Federation's (RusAF) suspension for the 11th time following allegations of forged documents and suspended coaches remaining active. 

The RusAF has been suspended by the IAAF since November 2015 when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

found evidence through an Independent Commission of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups.IAAF Taskforce

that forged paperwork had been submitted to help Russian world indoor champion Danil Lysenko avoid a doping

If so, that calls into question whether RusAF is able to enforce doping bans and whether all RusAF athletes

have embraced the change of a new anti-doping culture," he said.



IAAF Council approves road race out-of-competition drug testing funding scheme

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council has approved a new out-of-competition drug testing funding scheme for road races during their meeting here.

is in partnership with the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), who claim road running is susceptible to doping

disproportionate relationship between the money available to runners and the likelihood of being caught doping

that 76 per cent of 50 IAAF gold label road race winners were not part of any out-of-competition anti-doping

programme in 2018.This is because the current out-of-competition anti-doping programme administered

focuses on the top 10 to 15 male and female athletes in each athletics discipline, with national anti-doping


IAAF overturns Athletics South Africa decision to ban Russian amateur runners from competing in Comrades Marathon

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) reversed a decision made by Athletics South Africa (ASA) to ban Russian athletes from competing in the Comrades Marathon after it was found they were amateur and not affiliated to the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF). 

believed that they were unable to compete due to IAAF's suspension of RusAF in November 2015 following doping


FIVB announces first eight host cities for 2022 Men's World Championship in Russia

  • Volleyball

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has announced eight of the 10 cities set to stage matches at the 2022 Men's World Championship in Russia.

was awarded the 2022 Men's World Championship last November, only two months after the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency was reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency following the country's doping scandal.The decision

seen as an example of the nation's rapid rehabilitation into world sport following the state-sponsored doping