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Lima 2019 launches anti-doping courses for athletes and doctors

  • Lima 2019

Lima 2019 has announced the launch of an anti-doping course for Spanish-speaking sports doctors prior

The course has been established by organisers in collaboration with Panam Sports and the World Anti-Doping

an opportunity for all Spanish-speaking countries to take steps against doping.Peru’s National Anti-Doping

has called for athletes to participate in the course.Peruvian athletes can also take part in an anti-doping

knowledge.It is claimed the doping control services for the Games will include 2,800 blood and urine

anti-doping kits.Analysis of the anti-doping samples at the Games will be carried out in the WADA-accredited


Just seven countries left to sign UNESCO Anti-Doping Convention after East Timor become 188th nation

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East Timor has ratified the International Convention against Doping in Sport laid out by the United Nations

2005, is the practical instrument by which Governments formalise their commitment to the fight against doping

 It allows Governments to align their domestic policies with the World Anti-Doping Code.

Lebanon and Niue.WADA President Sir Craig Reedie welcomed East Timor's decision to sign the UNESCO Anti-Doping

We are pleased that East Timor has shown its commitment to anti-doping in this way."

I know that Gobinathan Nair, director general of the Southeast Asia Regional Anti-Doping Organization



Rio Olympic weightlifting hero Oscar Figueroa banned from Pan American Championships in ‘whereabouts’ crackdown

  • Weightlifting

A hugely popular Olympic weightlifting champion has been excluded from the Pan American Championships which start in Guatemala next weekend because of his failure to update his whereabouts information.

Colombian pair, failed to update their whereabouts information on the database managed by the World Anti-Doping

phases of Olympic qualifying.Many have complained the data system launched by WADA in 2005, ADAMS (Anti-Doping


Arrests made in France over alleged drug trafficking operation

  • Non-Olympic Sports

founder of Les Trois Chênes laboratories, has reportedly been arrested amid alleged trafficking of doping

French authorities reportedly identified bodybuilders in Lyon engaged with the purchase and sale of doping

Luxembourg and the Les Trois Chênes laboratories have been suspected of having organised the trafficking of doping


IOC President Bach urges athletes to make voice heard

  • Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach urged Athletes’ Commissions to make their opinions heard as the International Athletes’ Forum began in Lausanne, insisting they did not need others “who pretend to speak on your behalf”.

Athletes’ Commissions, as well as their counterparts from International Federations (IFs), the World Anti-Doping



Philip Barker: Germany's journey from division to unity

  • Inside the Blogs

Seventy years ago, the Olympic Movement was faced with the reintegration of a nation excluded from the world sporting community. 

 The full extent of the East German doping programme was yet to be revealed.There was one last hurrah


International Athletes’ Forum to take place amid calls for improved representation and greater share of Olympic revenues

  • Olympics

Lausanne is set to welcome around 300 athletes for the International Athletes’ Forum amid increasing calls for greater representation and a bigger share of Olympic revenue.

invited to attend, alongside their counterparts from International Federations (IFs), the World Anti-Doping

competitors, largely involving athlete groups at the IOC and WADA, in the fallout from the Russian doping

letter backing Athleten Deutschland’s position.Global Athlete claims to be independent of National Anti-Doping


Kirsty Coventry: Athletes' voices need to be heard and valued

  • Inside the Blogs

Athletes from the Olympic Movement have come a long way in having their voices heard. Just last year, 4,292 athletes, from 190 countries and more than 120 sports disciplines, shaped the Athletes’ Rights and Responsibilities Declaration.

Associations of National Olympic Committees, the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games, the World Anti-Doping

financial model of the Olympic Movement, direct and indirect support to athletes, and the fight against doping


Shock defeat for Spain's Valentin at European Weightlifting Championships

  • Weightlifting

There was a surprise defeat for Lidia Valentin when she failed with her final lift in the women’s 76kg on day six of the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia.

rankings he is unlikely to make it to Tokyo 2020 as Armenia can send only one male athlete, because of its doping

Martirosyan, the 109kg lifter who won silver at Rio 2016 as a teenager.There has been a significant doping


FIH announces improvements to anti-doping system on Play True Day

  • Hockey

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced improvements to its anti-doping system on the

World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Play True Day.

clean sport among athletes and sports fans.FIH has marked the day by revealing improvements to its anti-doping

 Face-to-face anti-doping education will be delivered at a number of FIH events.The FIH Series Finals

booth for athletes to ask questions about anti-doping procedures.

 An information booth demonstrating the athlete anti-doping education programme will be present

“We are proud of our position as one of the top federations for anti-doping and want to remain at the


IAAF clears Coe of misleading Parliament over knowledge of Russian doping

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has closed an ethics investigation into President Sebastian Coe.

established" that he had misled a British Parliamentary Committee over his knowledge of corruption and doping

Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova ©Getty ImagesIn its final report, entitled Combating Doping

were "misleading" and that he "sought to distance himself from any knowledge of the allegations of doping


Rutto becomes latest Kenyan runner to be suspended in doping case

  • Athletics

Cyrus Rutto has become the latest Kenyan distance runner to be provisionally suspended in a doping case

26-year-old is ranked 15th in the world in the event.Several Kenyan athletes are suspended for anti-doping

violations, while the IAAF included the distance-running superpower on a list of nations most at risk of doping

false medical documents to a tribunal.Among the other Kenyan athletes currently suspended for anti-doping

Kipyegon Bett and three-time Boston Marathon champion Rita Jeptoo.In 2016, Kenya introduced an anti-doping

act to make doping an offence which could be punished by imprisonment.The country’s recent doping woes


WADA celebrates 2019 Play True Day with stakeholders from around globe

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has today celebrated Play True Day alongside athletes, national and

regional anti-doping organisations, sports federations, major event organisers and other anti-doping

numerous organisations and countries taking part.This year, in a spirit of solidarity among the anti-doping

programme, announced its support for Play True Day and emphasised its commitment to sport which is clean of doping