Earlier this week I spoke to Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee, in an interview to mark 500 days to go until the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics get under way.

Paralympic Committee (RPC) just two days into the Rio 2016 Olympics following revelations of state-sponsored doping

“After 30 months of suspension, the Russian Paralympic Committee had completely changed its anti-doping

welcomed back Apti Aukhadov, one of their lifters who lost a London 2012 Olympic Games medal for a doping

medal and finished fifth on total.Aukhadov, who returned to training early this year after serving his doping

Olympic Committee (NOC), who has been happy to see a complete overhaul of the sport after a series of doping

that the decision by the NOC to suspend the Albanian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) because of its doping

Godelli, Qerimaj, and Tuesday’s 73kg silver medallist Briken Calja have all served doping suspensions

Russian boxer Tamir Galanov has been suspended for two years for violating anti-doping regulations.

state news agency TASS, the suspension started from March 12 this year and was imposed after his doping

suspension was handed to him by the Boxing Federation of Russia (RBF) and confirmed by the Russian Anti-Doping

decision to award the event to the city initially put AIBA on a collision course with the World Anti-Doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that it has reinstated the accreditation of the Bucharest

The Bucharest Laboratory is therefore able to resume all of its anti-doping activities, including the

2016.Pop did not report the findings, the report said, and instead entered the samples into the Anti-Doping

being negative.He did not act alone, however.The news sparked concern at WADA following the Russian doping

scandal, where laboratories were at the centre of the systematic manipulation of the anti-doping results

the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.WADA is responsible for accrediting and re-accrediting anti-doping

being the dirtiest sport on the Paralympic programme, has announced its support for the World Anti-Doping

Agency’s Play True Day tomorrow, emphasising its commitment to sport which is clean of doping, it claims

Play True Day is a day devoted to clean sport and the fight against doping, and to raise awareness for

athlete that takes part in a World Para Powerlifting-recognised competition may be required to undergo doping

world record is broken, a test is carried out on the athlete and the record is not validated until the doping

World Para Powerlifting delivers a tailored anti-doping education programme named ‘Raise the Bar – Say

to Doping’ ahead of international competitions."

Russian figure skater and ice dancer Anastasia Shakun, who has received a one-year doping ban from the

that tournament the International Skating Union (ISU) received a report from the Czech National Anti-Doping

Committee revealing that the Russian had failed the doping test and her samples contained the prohibited

test and charged the athlete with two breaches of the ISU’s anti-doping rules.The Figure Skating Federation

competitions.Russia's 2014 Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova was investigated after being accused of doping

November 10.Russia's 2014 Olympic singles champion Adelina Sotnikova was investigated by the World Anti-Doping

Russian race walker Sergei Bakulin, previously stripped of a world title for taking performance-enhancing drugs, has been provisionally suspended for an indefinite period by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) charged following a second offence.

he was banned in 2015 because his blood passport data showed signs of doping.The AIU, which handles doping

pending a hearing.Bakulin used coached by Viktor Chegin who has a history of training athletes banned for doping

the 10,000m race walk title at the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships, has received a provisional doping

 Russians make up three of the latest seven doping suspensions to be issued by the AIU, who have

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) executive director Sergei Tabakov is confident the 2019 Pan American Sambo Championships will be held to "high standards" after taking part in an inspection trip to the host city of Santo Domingo.

Medicine, Dr Milton Pinedo, FIAS representatives also discussed the finer points of organisation of doping

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) director general Olivier Niggli commemorated the 30th anniversary of

the Council of Europe’s Anti-Doping Convention at a conference in Athens.

Europe member countries, alongside several other states.The Convention was aimed at harmonising anti-doping

harder to obtain and use banned substances, such as anabolic steroids.Assisting the funding of anti-doping

tests and establishing a link between the strict application of anti-doping rules and awarding subsidies

“The fight against doping is not static.

Convention was signed in 2002 in Warsaw.The protocol was aimed at ensuring the recognition of doping

Australian Nick Kyrgios and Indian Ravichandran Ashwin might play different sports but recent incidents involving the pair have provoked a similar reaction.

He was found to have covered 11 of the 26.2-mile course in a car.More recently, the omnipresent doping

Italy's Mirco Scarantino claimed his third European title in the minimum weight class, while Romanian Elena Andries moved up the Olympic qualifying list by winning gold for the second successive year on day one of the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia.

lightest men’s and women’s classes and because the only European to make the podium was disqualified for doping

Weightlifters from across Europe feel they are victims of an “outdated” data system at the World Anti-Doping

than 70 lifters were barred for failing to log their whereabouts on WADA’s database, which is used by doping

body launched ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration and Management System) in 2005 and many athletes complain

“In those cases, the relevant International Federation or National Anti-Doping Agency would notify WADA

, starting with the athletes’ whereabouts app, which is undergoing user testing.”Meanwhile, two new doping

violation announced in the past 15 weeks.Because of the doping scandal, Thailand has voluntarily withdrawn

For the first time since the start of the new Olympic qualifying programme last November, the focus of the weightlifting world is on Europe.

and third at Rio 2016, all in the old 75kg class.But because so many athletes were disqualified for doping

lifted the threat of removing the sport from the Olympic Games, on condition the IWF hands over its anti-doping

them.Last year, Albania had to withdraw from hosting the European Championships at short notice after a doping

Russian basketball player Roman Balandin has been hit with a four-year doping ban after he tested positive

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) confirmed the sanction against the 21-year-old, who plays for

sportsperson to have failed for meldonium, which is prohibited in and out of competition by the World Anti-Doping

 But it was placed on WADA's banned list after the global anti-doping watchdog concluded it could

Versapak Doping Control has won an award for the design of its urine sample bottles, the company has

The British manufacturer of doping collection sample kits was among the companies to receive the Red

B urine sample kit.The announcement comes as Versapak continues its further involvement in the anti-doping

following customer feedback which showed they cracked when frozen.The previous January, the World Anti-Doping

the bottles were not tamper-proof and could be opened.Berlinger is the main company involved in the doping

collection.The company claimed in a statement that it had received "strong global demand" for its BEREG-KIT anti-doping