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FISU denies Russian Sports Minister Matytsin's nomination for Honorary President

  • Universiade

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has denied reports about Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin being nominated for the position of Honorary President.

has been Acting President of FISU since March 2021, when Matytsin stepped aside in accordance with doping

sanctions against Russia.The World Anti-Doping Agency sanctions imposed on Russia after the cover-up

of a state-sponsored doping programme meant that Government officials from the country were not allowed

to hold any post at a global governing body that is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code.Swiss


Russia's world champion weightlifter Kashirina banned for eight years after court ruling

  • Weightlifting

champion weightlifter Tatiana Kashirina has been banned for eight years because a decision about a doping

.The offence would appear to have taken place before 2015.Eight months later, the Disciplinary Anti-Doping

Committee of Russia's National Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) found there was no case to answer and cleared

Kashirina recently won gold at the CIS Games in Belarus ©Getty ImagesA month later, the World Anti-Doping

ends.WADA's investigation into the Moscow laboratory, known as Operations LIMS, has led to more than 200 doping


Turkey join list of nations facing Paris 2024 weightlifting ban

  • Weightlifting

Turkey has had a weightlifter provisionally suspended for a doping violation for the third time in three

according to the latest update from the International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping

for up to four years or fined up to $500,000 (£394,375/€460,130) under Article 12 of the IWF’s anti-doping

are closed.Under the separate rules of the Paris 2024 qualifying system, nations with three or more doping

teenage members of its national team suspended after positive tests carried out by its national anti-doping

receptor modulators), banned substances that provide muscle mass growth.Kazakhstan has a bad historic doping


OCA stages workshop for Hangzhou 2022 esports athletes and officials

  • Hangzhou 2022

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has held an online workshop to prepare esports athletes and officials for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.

competition manipulation, the election for the OCA Athletes' Committee, social media guidelines, and anti-doping

Dr Venera Abdulla, a member of the OCA anti-doping department, introduced various aspects of anti-doping

, including the WADA Anti-Doping Education and Learning module, therapeutic use exemption and the procedure

The workshop covered anti-doping protocols and how to prevent competition manipulation ©OCAFor the first

time, all athletes at the Games are required to have an anti-doping certification, demonstrating that




Quintet of gold medallists crowned at World Taekwondo Cadet Championships

  • Taekwondo

A total of five victors have been crowned on the opening day of the World Taekwondo Cadet Championships in Sarajevo.

the duration of the event.She will be available to answer any questions from athletes regarding the doping

control process and how to avoid committing an anti-doping rule violation.



Petrynka stresses on need for education at ISF U15 Gymnasiade 2023 Closing Ceremony

  • ISF U15 Gymnasiade 2023

International School Sport Federation President Laurent Petrynka has said that the organisation aims to expand "education through sport" as the ISF U15 Gymnasiade 2023 came to an end.

by Renata Kopczyk, a Polish sports lawyer and former gymnast.Renata Kopczyk, in white, ran the anti-doping

workshops here ©ISFIt was an interactive section about basics like the World Anti-Doping Agency, list

It is important to educate the kids on what is prohibited and what is doping," Kopczyk said."

know that they will lose everything - their reputation, medals and credibility – if found guilty of doping

I also try to show them that doping is a crime."



World record holders on "no lift" list at weightlifting World Championships

  • 2023 World Weightlifting Championships

Three world record holders and an Olympic champion are among 27 athletes who have declared their intent to weigh in without lifting at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships, which begin in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on September 4.

for all Olympic hopefuls, who must "participate" by weighing in and presenting themselves for anti-doping

provisionally suspended for doping.Kazakhstan faces an outright ban from Paris and beyond because of doping


Tentoglou takes long jump gold from Pinnock with late drama at World Athletics Championships

  • Budapest 2023

Greek Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou pinched the men's long jump gold from Jamaica's Wayne Pinnock at the World Athletics Championships here on another eventful evening.

earned her bronze.Bahrain's Kemi Adekoya returned to major competition after the end of a four-year doping

having been charged by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) with whereabouts failures for missing three doping

12-month period last month.The AIU said it was "disappointed" by the Panel clearing her of an anti-doping


Duncan Mackay: The inside story of Victor Conte, BALCO and one of athletics' biggest doping scandals

  • Inside the Blogs

It was at the World Athletics Championships 20 years ago in Paris that I first properly became aware of the name "Victor Conte", a man who I did not realise at the time was about to play a major role in my professional life.

American from the event, Chris Phillips, who had reached the final of the 110m hurdles, had also failed a doping

after the dinner, the plot began to thicken when the then chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping


Ingebrigtsen stunned again at World Athletics Championships with Kerr 1500m gold

  • Budapest 2023

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen was again upstaged by a British athlete in the men's 1500 metres final at the World Athletics Championships as Josh Kerr claimed a stunning victory on another thrilling night here.

days before the World Championships when a Disciplinary Panel deemed she had not committed an anti-doping