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Exclusive: Banka won WADA vote by narrow 10-8 margin

  • News

Witold Bańka won the vote that puts him in pole position to succeed Sir Craig Reedie as World Anti-Doping

hard to earn the full backing of WADA’s supreme decision-making body and, by extension, of the anti-doping

narrow victory underlines that this “unity” remains some way off and that the scars left by the Russian doping

s fourth President, there remains some uncertainty over the intentions of Linda Helleland, the anti-doping

Helleland has positioned herself as the choice of the athletes and the largely western National Anti-Doping

crucial European nomination for the Presidency.Bańka's manifesto includes a pledge to establish an anti-doping


Four cyclists provisionally suspended as Austrian doping probe widens

  • Cycling

as being involved in Operation Aderlass, the Austrian police investigation which uncovered a blood doping

 They have all been notified of potential anti-doping rule violations by the International Cycling

also provisionally suspended the above-mentioned individuals pursuant to Article 7.9.3 of the UCI Anti-Doping

The UCI and the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent body mandated by the UCI to define

and lead the anti-doping testing strategy and investigations in our sport, have been in close contact

during his career.The 45-year-old confessed to being involved in the Erfurt blood doping scandal during


Bańka set to succeed Reedie as WADA President

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Sports Minister Witold Bańka has been chosen to succeed Sir Craig Reedie as President of the World Anti-Doping

vice-president Linda Helleland ©Getty ImagesBańka's manifesto includes a pledge to establish an anti-doping

solidarity fund, which he claims will "help build a strong network of National Anti-Doping Organisations

current WADA administration before Sir Craig steps down.This will happen during the World Conference on Doping


Scottish hammer thrower Dry receives provisional suspension from UK Anti-Doping

  • Athletics

Double Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mark Dry has been given a provisional suspension by UK Anti-Doping

after receiving a charge of “tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control".

provisional suspension after the Scottish hammer thrower was charged for “conduct which subverts the doping

prohibited methods", according to the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Anti-Doping

Tampering shall include, without limitation, intentionally interfering or attempting to interfere with a doping

control official, providing fraudulent information to an anti-doping organization, or intimidating or

followed and we have to await the outcome of that process, which involves UK Athletics and UK Anti-Doping



RUSADA chief executive calls for clearout at Russian Athletics Federation, including President

  • News

Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) chief executive Yury Ganus has called for the entire management and

for next year's Olympics.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.The

dismissal of national team coaches and the heads of sports schools and other training centres linked to doping

, as well as officials who have served doping bans."


Former cyclist Hondo sacked from Swiss Cycling coaching role after admitting to blood doping

  • Cycling

Germany has been fired from his role as a national coach for Swiss Cycling after admitting to blood doping

The 45-year-old confessed to being involved in the Erfurt blood doping scandal during an interview on

athletes from eight countries and five sports – three winter and two summer – are suspected of blood doping

resulted in a group of at least 21 athletes from eight countries and five sports being suspected of blood doping

scandal.Austrian skier Johannes Dürr, whose revelations about blood doping in an ARD documentary sparked

newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, as many as 40 blood bags and other items associated with doping


Exclusive: Pound set to miss his first Foundation Board meeting almost 20 years after WADA was established

  • News

Richard Pound will this week miss his first meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation

decision-making body.Linda Helleland is considered an outsider for the role of President at the World Anti-Doping

experience of Olympic affairs, Pound chaired the WADA Independent Commission set up in the wake of doping

allegations first aired on German television in late 2014.The latest developments in the long-running Russian doping


Paris 2024 welcomes certainty over weightlifting's inclusion after conditional status lifted

  • Weightlifting

Paris 2024 has welcomed the certainty of weightlifting’s place on the programme for the Olympic Games, after its conditional status was lifted.

Weightlifting’s place had been conditional owing to concerns over the sport's doping record.The International

Games qualification system, which links the number of quota available per country to their history of doping



Meet the candidates vying to become the next WADA President

  • The Big Read

Sir Craig Reedie was keen to highlight the changes the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had made during

a decision that will shape the direction of an organisation which is still reeling from the Russian doping

solidarity fund to strengthen National Anti-Doping Organisations, especially in countries which do not

Bańka is hoping to replace Sir Craig Reedie at the World Anti-Doping Agency ©Twitter“Sometimes we only

focus our attention on big doping scandals, which is important of course, but we are forgetting about

It is not a fair environment, so that is why I have proposed this anti-doping solidarity fund.


Michael Pavitt: Could public authorities have a role in ensuring International Federations achieve better governance?

  • Inside the Blogs

My week began and ended speaking to Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President Raffaele Chiulli.

Having written off their cars, the federations have effectively been able to start from scratch after doping

mentions of compliance and public authority involvement in sport leads me to wonder whether a World Anti-Doping


Sjöström and Efimova star on opening day of FINA Champions Swim Series in Budapest

  • Swimming

Swedish star Sarah Sjöström and Russian Yuliya Efimova set world-leading times as they each secured two gold medals on the opening day of the International Swimming Federation Champions Swim Series event in Budapest.

Pellegrini taking bronze, a further 0.51 adrift.Efimova, the controversial Russian who has served a 16-month doping