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Mohamed Elshorbagy through to Grasshopper Cup semi-finals but top seed dumped out

  • Non-Olympic Sports

World number two Mohamed Elshorbagy breezed through to the semi-finals of the Professional Squash Association Grasshopper Cup in Zurich with a straight games victory over Colombia's Miguel Rodriguez, but world number one Ali Farag was dumped out.

Twenty-eight-year-old Elshorbagy, whose brother Marwan was cleared of wrongdoing today after an anti-doping



China and Russia dominate list of latest sanctions revealed by AIU

  • Athletics

China and Russia dominate the Athletics Integrity Unit’s latest monthly list of sanctions with the countries having had seven and nine athletes, respectively, hit with bans.

pair having both been hit by eight-year sanctions.Lysenko, banned for two years in 2008 for a separate doping

her 2013 IAAF World Championships title following the CAS ruling.Khanafeyeva was served a three-month doping

of Russia's 4x400 metres relay team that finished second at London 2012 to have been found guilty of doping

has been suspended for an additional eight-year period.The 24-year-old, who is serving a four-year doping


Egyptian squash player Marwan Elshorbagy cleared after anti-doping investigation

  • Squash

Egyptian squash player Marwan Elshorbagy has been cleared of breaching anti-doping rules following an

confirms that Marwan Elshorbagy was investigated in relation to a potential breach of the WSF anti-doping

Federation that an investigation into Marwan Elshorbagy in relation to a potential breach of WSF Anti-Doping

The PSA are satisfied that WSF have dealt with the investigation as per their anti-doping rules and now

some of you may know, I have been the subject of an investigation by the WSF in relation to its anti-doping



Kazakhstan Weightlifting Federation to make final plea for increased Tokyo 2020 quota places in meeting with IOC and IWF

  • Weightlifting

Kazakhstan Weightlifting Federation (WFRK) officials are set to meet representatives from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the sport's worldwide governing body in a last-ditch attempt to increase the size of their team for Tokyo 2020.

year's Games.Kazakhstan have only been granted spots for one man and one woman owing to their poor doping

programme for the Games in the French capital, providing it finalises an agreement to cede its entire anti-doping

Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and future editions of the Olympic Games, doping

had more positives since 2008, the date which the IWF used as a start point in assessing its members' doping


Azerbaijan weightlifter facing life ban after caught doping in IOC retests from London 2012

  • London 2012

Azerbaijan's Valentin Hristov is facing being banned for life after he was caught doping for a third

December that a sample taken from 34-year-old Bulgarian-born Azeri, currently serving an eight-year doping

London 2012 bronze medal stripped from Hristov after he was fourth.Hristov has now been found guilty of doping

and jerk and overall titles on his return to action at the 2015 European Championships but was caught doping

stricter qualification rules introduced by the IWF in an effort to ease concerns the IOC has about doping

weightlifting would be granted full inclusion at Paris 2024 once it has handed over the rest of its anti-doping


Exclusive: Virgets thanks Kremlev after offer to clear AIBA debt but claims they did not solicit multi-million dollar proposal

  • Boxing

International Boxing Association (AIBA) executive director Tom Virgets has thanked Umar Kremlev for offering to personally write off the organisation's significant debt and claimed the Russian made the proposal of his own accord.

improvements in governance, the referee and judging program and became 100 per cent compliant with World Anti-Doping

Agency through its anti-doping programme.



IAAF clears five more Russians to compete as neutral athletes

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has cleared five more Russians to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2019.

drug-testing history.The IAAF's ban on Russia, first introduced in the wake of allegations of state-sponsored doping


Bach urges authorities investigating worldwide doping ring to hand out tough sanctions to athletes and

  • Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has urged authorities investigating a major doping

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

Preidler, admitting to their involvement.Austrian skier Johannes Dürr, whose revelations about blood doping

could include other athletes and sports, until today, despite some of those involved admitting to blood doping

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


Late American bobsledder Holcomb officially upgraded to Olympic silver medals from Sochi 2014

  • Sochi 2014

The family of the late Steven Holcomb are set to receive two Olympic silver medals after the results of the two and four-man bobsleigh results from Sochi 2014 were officially amended and the United States moved up a position in both events, it was announced here today. 

confirmed the new medal allocation following the disqualification in 2017 of Russia's Alexandr Zubkov for doping

four-man.Zubkov was disqualified after being implicated by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the World Anti-Doping



Diaz vows to explore alternative funding sources and rebuild WADA reputation in manifesto for President

  • News

has vowed to explore alternative sources of funding and to rebuild the reputation of the World Anti-Doping

increase WADA's current budget and "obtain the resources needed to expand the reach" of the global anti-doping

getting others, aside from the International Olympic Committee and Governments, to contribute to anti-doping

consultation process within sport to help WADA repair its image and reputation following the Russian doping

guaranteeing the meaning of the "W" in WADA, continuous contact with stakeholders of the world anti-doping

I am aware of the needs and realities of the national anti-doping agencies."


Takeda officially no longer an IOC member after resignation accepted

  • Olympics

Tsunekazu Takeda officially ceased to be a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today after the organisation's ruling Executive Board accepted his resignation at a meeting here.

investigation by French authorities into allegations he took payments to help Russian athletes avoid doping