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Russian backlash at Isinbayeva absence from World Athletics Championships historical features

  • Athletics

The absence of three-time world champion Yelena Isinbayeva from a World Athletics feature covering influential women at the World Championships has sparked a backlash in Russia.

Chicherova, who won Olympic gold at London 2012 but was stripped of her bronze at Beijing 2008 for doping

Federation had also been suspended for most of Coe's Presidency since 2015 because of the state-sponsored doping


Rio ready for second edition of ISF U15 Gymnasiade 2023

  • ISF U15 Gymnasiade 2023

The International School Sport Federation (ISF) U15 Gymnasiade 2023 is set to begin here tomorrow as more than 2,000 athletes aged 13 to 15 will compete in 18 disciplines.

focus on safeguarding in sport.Educational activities will also revolve around topics such as anti-doping


Coe accused by Pozdnyakov of leading Russophobic World Athletics after warning they will miss Paris 2024

  • Athletics

Newly re-elected World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has been accused of being a Russophobe after he admitted there was little chance of them competing at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris.

shortly after Coe was elected to replace Lamine Diack as President, following evidence of state-sponsored doping

Minister between 2016 and 2020, claimed that Russia had fulfilled the criteria to have its suspension for doping


AIU "disappointed" after Amusan cleared of doping whereabouts offence prior to World Championships

  • Budapest 2023

Nigeria’s 100 metres hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan has been cleared to compete at the World Athletics Championships here, although the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) says it is “disappointed” by the decision.

Amusan, the world champion in the 100m hurdles, had been charged with missing three doping tests within

However, a Disciplinary Tribunal panel found by a majority decision Amusan had not committed an anti-doping


Duncan Mackay: Coe's always defied the critics, so don't write off his chances of becoming IOC President

  • Inside the Blogs

Sebastian Coe has pretty much spent most of his life proving people who have written him off wrong, first as an athlete, then as an Olympic organiser and now as head of a sport that can genuinely claim to be the most diverse in the world.

raided by French police investigating allegations that Diack had accepted bribes to cover up Russian doping

managed to rescue the situation ©Getty ImagesThe move to suspend Russia after evidence of state-sponsored doping

will be the formation of the Athletics Integrity Unit in 2017 to combat the sport’s age-old problem of doping

The sport will never be completely clear of doping, but at least it now looks like it is trying to do


World Athletics Russia Task Force chair expresses content with RusAF leadership in final Congress report

  • Athletics

Rune Andersen reported for the final time in his position as chair of World Athletics' Russia Taskforce at the Congress here, where he expressed his content with the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) leadership's ability to meet conditions attached to its reinstatement.

reinstated by World Athletics in March, having been suspended since 2015 because of the state-sponsored doping

Ukraine.Petr Ivanov returned as RusAF President in December last year after the expiration of World Anti-Doping

requirements that RusAF would have to meet as a category A member federation under the World Athletics anti-doping


Son of Georgia's national weightlifting coach latest to test positive for SARMS

  • Weightlifting

Kakhi Asanidze, whose father Giorgi is Georgia's national head coach, is the latest weightlifter to test positive for a banned substance that can help to grow muscle mass and bone.

is the second lifter from Georgia since the Tokyo Olympic Games to be provisionally suspended for a doping

analytical findings announced by the International Testing Agency (ITA), which now handles all anti-doping

from Kazakhstan tested positive for SARMS when samples taken out of competition by their national anti-doping

testing positive for SARMS.Tokyo Olympian Rejepbay Rejepov has been suspended for three years for a doping

of the maximum six quota places for Paris may be withdrawn by the independent panel.The IWF's Anti-Doping


Russia name 300-strong "preliminary" delegation for Paris 2024 Paralympics

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) has revealed it has a 300-strong "preliminary" delegation for next year’s Paralympics in Paris - despite not knowing whether they will be allowed to participate.

Tokyo 2020, athletes from Russia competed under the RPC flag due to sanctions imposed by the World Anti-Doping

Agency in response to the state-sponsored doping scandal.The RPC placed fourth in the standings with


Sambists invited to webinar on doping whereabouts

  • Sambo

Federation (FIAS) has invited sambists to join a webinar at the end of August to help them abide by doping

Athletes are required to advise the doping authorities of their location, so that tests may be carried

FIAS has joined forces with the International Testing Agency to provide webinars offering guidance on doping

ImagesSerbian kayaker Kristina Bedocs, a three-time European champion is to share her experiences of the doping

It is set to be the sixth webinar in a series which has already covered other aspects of doping control


Former British Cycling doctor Freeman banned for four years for anti-doping rule violations

  • Cycling

Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman has been banned form all sport for four years for anti-doping

As such, we have made every effort to support both UK Anti-Doping and the General Medical Council in

An investigation by the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) found that 30 sachets of testogel was delivered to Freeman

 "The decision of the independent tribunal of the National Anti-Doping Panel confirms that Richard

Freeman broke the UK Anti-Doping Rules," Jane Rumble, UKAD's chief executive said."


Brazilian Olympic Committee launches new ombudsman and ethics channel

  • PASO

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has launched a new ombudsman and ethics channel to address complaints from athletes and others involved in the Olympic Movement.

Complaints related to moral harassment, physical aggression, harassment or sexual abuse, doping, corruption


Exclusive: Britain, Germany and Turkey join European Para Championships observer programme

  • European Para Championships 2023

Officials from countries including Britain, Germany and Turkey are here to gain a better understanding of the staging of the European Para Championships (EPC) as they weigh up whether to bid for the 2027 edition.

insights into the running of a number of other areas, including transportation, accreditation, anti-doping



London 2012 gold medallist Joshua says boxing has doping problem after Whyte's positive test

  • Boxing

British Olympic champion Anthony Joshua claims that boxing "clearly has a problem" with doping following

weekend in London but 39-year-old Finn Robert Helenius has taken the match instead.The Voluntary Anti-Doping

two-time world heavyweight champion Whyte previously served a two-year ban from 2012 to 2014 for a doping

has been replaced after failing a drugs test ©Getty ImagesHowever, in 2019 he was cleared by UK Anti-Doping

It is the third time in 12 months that boxing has faced questions on its anti-doping protocols.In October