International Federations in professional and semi-professional sports are going to have to adapt to greater demands from the athletes, a very prominent International Olympic Committee member has told insidethegames.

athletes’ groups are exhibiting increasing militancy on issues ranging from finances to duty of care, doping

London Marathon week impressively has squeezed in some of the good, the bad and the downright ugly side of long-distance running.

is hard to tell whether this is a good thing or not.On the plus side, you could suggest the new anti-doping

Olympic champion Sun Yang – who allegedly deliberately smashed his blood sample in a row with drugs testers earlier this year – secured two gold medals at the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Champions Swim Series in Guangzhou.

reigning Olympic 200 metres freestyle champion denied wrongdoing and avoided punishment from FINA and its doping

panel, instead receiving a warning.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has since filed an appeal against

John Coates, a tactically astute 68-year-old Sydney lawyer, has been President of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) for 29 years. He has been involved in three Australian Summer Olympic bids, from three different cities, and maybe - who knows? - will soon be roped into a fourth.

Along with the bedding-in of CAS’ newly-created Anti-Doping Division, current preoccupations include

China’s unstoppable weightlifters racked up another nine world records, the United States had by far its best continental results, Japan and Korea continued their impressive progress, Saudi Arabia won a first major gold medal and Haiti made it on to the podium for the first time.

surprise Ilyin, who twice stood on top of the podium at the Olympic Games, only to be disqualified for doping

others.Russia's Tatiana Kashirina shows her power ©Getty Images“His results show how much of a role doping

have made great strides.Of the nine nations suspended for a year in 2017 for multiple Olympic Games doping

made the podium in Ningbo, have had a month to forget.The new qualifying system, a more rigid anti-doping

Ningbo, Saudi Arabia took a first gold (though the winner, Mansour Al Saleem, has served a two-year doping

whose promoter Eric Favre was reportedly arrested earlier this month amid allegations of trafficking doping

Favre, reported to have been arrested in France earlier this month following allegations of trafficking doping

, the clear concept of a healthy lifestyle, which is clearly in full harmony with the fight against doping

“The IFBB is in full compliance with the World Anti-Doping Agency and the WADA Code, something we consider

these private groups, unless we have evidence they represent a serious threat to the fight against doping

supports these reactions, which are in line with our principles on healthy lifestyle and the fight against doping

UK Athletics has reportedly received assurances from Mo Farah that he has had no contact with controversial coach Jama Aden since November 2016.

Aden in the autumn of 2016.The Somali coach was arrested by Spanish police in Barcelona in 2016 on doping

World half-marathon record holder Abraham Kiptum has been suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) two days before he had been due to compete in the London Marathon.

biological passport (ABP) violation under International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) anti-doping

We have a zero-tolerance policy on doping," said Hugh Brasher, London Marathon event director."

offences.Among the other Kenyans suspended for anti-doping violations are world 800m bronze medallist

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

China's Sun Yang is set to compete in the inaugural International Swimming Federation (FINA) Champions Swim Series in Guangzhou, following allegations he helped to deliberately smash his blood sample in a row with drugs testers in January. 

Olympic 200 metres freestyle champion Sun denied wrongdoing and avoided punishment from FINA and its doping

panel, instead receiving a warning.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has since filed an appeal against

Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda has delivered the opening address at the International Congress on Sport, People and Health in Saint Petersburg.

is titled the “Science and Art of Educating the Athlete and Administrator in Best Practices in Anti-doping

on "the crisis phenomena in Olympic sports and ways to overcome them” as its 2019 theme.Russian Anti-Doping

Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has issued a one-year ban to Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian for a doping

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee chairperson Beckie Scott and Education Committee head

probe "lacked transparency and independence" and was "akin to a kangaroo court" in a letter to the anti-doping

Executive Committee members at a fractious meeting in the Seychelles in September – where the Russian Anti-Doping

Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) director general David Howman has been criticised for his claim

anti-doping is stuck in the past by the director of a WADA-accredited laboratory in Ghent.

for WADA from 2003 to 2016 and is now chairman of the Athletics Integrity Unit, critiqued the anti-doping

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced plans to extend its blood steroid profiling strategy ahead of the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, following a landmark decision.

Arbitration for Sport (CAS) endorsed the method used by the AIU in a decision announced by the World Anti-Doping

athletes”.Zemliak was handed an eight-year ban from the sport, with the Ukrainian having served a two-year doping

measurement of testosterone levels in blood serum will serve as a further tool to detect and prosecute doping

“The decision sets an important precedent and this new method of detecting doping represents another

way for Anti-Doping Organisations to secure Anti-Doping Rule Violations against those who choose to cheat

Trash talking has been a feature of sport for many years. You could certainly trace a line back in cricket to WG Grace’s terse comment to an opponent as he sought to replace the bails on his stumps after being bowled first ball: "They came to see me bat - not you bowl."

he resigned as President of Ethiopian Athletics last November, came out strongly in favour of making doping