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Weightlifting to be granted full inclusion at Paris 2024 once full deal signed with ITA

  • Weightlifting

Games in Paris once the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has handed over its entire anti-doping

 The IWF has not yet transferred its entire anti-doping programme over to the ITA and still needs

programme for Paris 2024 has been hanging in the balance owing to continued concerns with the sport's doping

With elements of our anti-doping programme already having been successfully transferred, I have no doubt


RUSADA to take own Disciplinary Committee to CAS as coach escapes punishment for bribery

  • Athletics

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is taking its own Disciplinary Committee to the Court of Arbitration

for Sport (CAS) after it decided not to punish an athletics coach for trying to bribe an anti-doping

the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after being implicated in the Russian doping

violations last year ©Getty ImagesThe Senegalese official has been accused of receiving bribes to cover up doping

according to Russian official state news agency TASS, 16 Russian biathletes were guilty of anti-doping

last year.In total 17 biathlon cases were initially launched in 2018 based on "possible avoidance of doping

eventually dismissed, while across Russian sport 145 cases were reported.TASS reported a total of 14,693 doping


Kazakhstan drops legal challenge against International Weightlifting Federation Olympic qualification system

  • Weightlifting

A legal challenge filed by the Kazakhstan Weightlifting Federation (WFRK) against the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) Olympic qualification system for Tokyo 2020 has been dropped, it was announced today.

Kazakhstan, a country with one of the worst doping records in the sport, was attempting to challenge

in recent years by the WFRK, as part of very significant work throughout the entire sport to tackle doping

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

of awarding quota places for Tokyo 2020.Ilya Ilyin, who was stripped of two Olympic gold medals for doping

update on weightlifting, whose place on the Paris 2024 Olympic programme remains provisional owing to doping



Ukhov among five Russian athletes to appeal doping bans following CAS ruling

  • Athletics

Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov is among five Russian athletes to have launched an appeal against a doping

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

Tatyana Lysenko, who was given an eight-year ban.Lysenko, banned for two years in 2008 for a separate doping

years.The CAS ruled that the athletes implicated "participated in and/or benefited from anabolic steroid doping

became the main whistleblower for authorities investigating allegations of Russian state-sponsored doping


Liam Morgan: International Testing Agency must do more to prove it is the answer to anti-doping issues

  • Inside the Blogs

The International Testing Agency (ITA) was billed as a "major player in the global fight against anti-doping

arrive, it seems they cannot quite grab the attention for long enough.For the ITA, the recent World Anti-Doping

"We have built, are still building and will continue to build a true centre of anti-doping expertise,

All of the people that are working for the ITA are true anti-doping experts. This is all we do."

programmes.In theory, the ITA should be able to remove the clear conflict of interest in anti-doping

When I was at FIBA (International Basketball Federation), I was dealing with anti-doping, commercial


New Russian Bobsleigh Federation President promises zero-tolerance towards doping

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

A zero-tolerance approach towards doping will be adopted by the Russian Bobsleigh Federation, newly-elected

won in the two and four-man events at Sochi 2014 after being implicated in Russia's state-sponsored doping

 "Alas, our Federation is associated with doping scandals," Anikina told Russia's official state

 "I signed an agreement with RUSADA (Russian Anti-Doping Agency) on a great deal of anti-doping

with the anti-doping direction.

 "Let us make it so that the whole world understands that we have zero-tolerance for doping."


Investigation into AIBA to reach key milestone as IOC Executive Board prepares for interim report from Inquiry Committee

  • Olympics

An ongoing inquiry into the International Boxing Association (AIBA) reaches a key milestone this week as the first findings are set to be presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board when it holds its latest meeting here.

week as weightlifting's place at Paris 2024, which remains conditional owing to concerns over anti-doping

2020 and Beijing 2022, will also be presented to the IOC Executive Board.Other topics include anti-doping


Rugby list of shame grows as another player in Britain banned for anabolic steroids

  • Rugby Sevens

Another rugby player in Britain has been suspended after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Club (RFC) in Wales has been suspended from all sport for a period of four months following an anti-doping

October 2017 and tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol.The independent National Anti-Doping

There are steps athletes can take to reduce the anti-doping risks when using nutritional supplements,


Officer arrested for allegedly sharing video of police raid at World Nordic Ski Championships

  • Cross-Country

An Austrian police officer has been charged with breaking the country’s secrecy laws after a video emerged online of cross-country skier Max Hauke allegedly caught in the middle of a blood transfusion at the World Nordic Ski Championships in Seefeld.

across Austria and Germany, which was sparked after another Austrian skier Johannes Dürr confessed to doping

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

were seized during the raids in Germany.Additionally, Dürr, whose revelations about doping to German

broadcaster ARD sparked the whole operation, has also since been arrested in Innsbruck on doping-related

have been provisionally suspended by the International Ski Federation.An investigation was launched as doping


Klæbo and Østberg seal FIS Cross-Country World Cup titles for Norway as season ends

  • Cross-Country

Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg sealed the overall International Ski Federation Cross-Country World Cup titles today with first and third place finishes respectively in the final races of the season in Québec City. 

Nilsson won her third race in a row in 23:55.1 and Johaug, a seven-time world champion returning from a doping


Østberg and Klæbo a step closer to Cross Country crystal globes with one race to go

  • Cross-Country

A third-place finish for Ingvild Flugstad Østberg and a victory for Johannes Høsflot Klæbo in today’s mass start races in Quebec put them both on the brink of winning the overall Cross Country World Cup titles with one race to go.

champion, won today’s event in 25min, 51.6sec.Johaug, a seven-time world champion on her return from a doping


Duncan Mackay: All roads lead to Senegal in IOC corruption scandals

  • Inside the Blogs

News earlier this week that authorities in France had issued an arrest warrant for two Russian officials in connection with their investigation into former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President and leading International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Lamine Diack seemed to indicate we are entering the end game of a case that started more than three-and-a-half years ago. 

the period since his father was arrested in Paris in November 2015, linked to a scheme to cover up doping


Russian race walker Ivanov to lose 2013 world title after being hit with three-year doping ban

  • Athletics

Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Moscow after he was found guilty of doping

hearing.He was one of the last remaining members of Russia's race walking team to have not received a doping

ban before his suspension was confirmed.Race walking coach Viktor Chegin, linked to more than 30 doping

training centre in Saransk named in his honour.Athletes coached by Chegin implicated in at least one doping


American weightlifter Roberts issues lawsuit over rape claim against team-mate

  • Weightlifting

A member of the United States weightlifting team who claims she was raped by a team-mate who, at the time, was an athletes’ representative on the board of the sport’s national governing body, has issued a lawsuit against the alleged perpetrator, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and USA Weightlifting.

improve the funding of the Center similar to the successful and best-practice model of the US Anti-Doping