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International Golf Federation latest to lift ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes

  • Golf

The International Golf Federation (IGF) has become the latest governing body to lift a ban on Russian and Belarusian players from its competitions after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) eased its stance in March.

to the Russian or Belarusian military or national security agencies".They must "must meet all anti-doping



Amos issued with three-year ban by AIU for doping offence

  • Athletics

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Botswana's men's 800 metres Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos for three years after testing positive for a banned metabolite, with Kenya's Esther Macharia handed a four-year ban following a positive testosterone test.

consumed before the adverse analytical finding, but no traces were found of GW1516.Amos admitted an anti-doping

collision with the United States' Isaiah Jewett in the semi-final.GW1516 was added to the World Anti-Doping

year.Macharia failed to request a hearing within the AIU's deadline, and failed to return an Admission of Anti-Doping

become rife in Kenya, with more than 60 of the country's athletes on the AIU banned list, and an Anti-Doping

offences.The Kenyan Government has committed $25 million (£19.9 million/€22.6 million) to the fight against doping


Canada's weightlifting pathfinder Lassen leads way again with Paris 2024 role

  • Weightlifting

The woman who was the driving force behind one of the most significant changes in modern weightlifting is returning to the sport after a six-year absence to become technical delegate for next year's Olympic Games in Paris. 

elections in Thailand that year in the Antonio Urso camp.The Italian, who tried for years to highlight anti-doping


Big year for Thailand weightlifting as it tries to restore "destroyed" reputation

  • Weightlifting

The next 12 months will offer the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) plenty of chances to show the world that they are making progress on and off the platform in their attempt to move away from a troubled past into a clean, successful future.

, some of them newcomers and others who have been involved for years, are all aware of the problems doping

as young as 13 for national competitions and that doping was widespread in gyms and clubs around Thailand

agency (DCAT) and a new attitude to doping, especially regarding education of athletes and coaches.Next

month Limsuknirun will meet an official from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Thailand to discuss

After the doping problems we investigated what happened in our family, not just in TAWA (the national


Turkish Sports Minister Kasapoğlu meets with IOC President Bach in Lausanne

  • Olympic Games 2036

Turkey's Minister of Youth and Sports Mehmet Kasapoğlu has met with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach during a visit to Lausanne, underlining the country's desire to play a leading role in "influencing the decision-making processes in the international sports community".

Cabinet position since 2018 under Erdoğan, discussed issues including the Paris 2024 Olympics and anti-doping

medals at Tokyo 2020, Turkey's highest Olympic tally to date.The Minister is a member of the World Anti-Doping



Exclusive: Ukraine faces Olympic weightlifting ban after world champion’s doping violation

  • Weightlifting

Ukraine has had a third weightlifting doping violation since the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

month, has been announced today by the International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping

Ukraine will be out of the Olympic Games.Under the IWF Paris qualifying rules, if three or more anti-doping

quota places - three for men and three for women.Ukrainian Oleksiy Torokhtiy was disqualified for a doping

of ineligibility of four years or more, all quota places shall be withdrawn.Ukraine has had multiple doping

and ITA databases.It had a reduced athlete quota at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of its past doping


Nine Russian wrestlers given two-year doping bans based on 2012 Moscow data

  • Wrestling

A group of nine Russian wrestlers, including eight female competitors, have incurred two-year doping

bans from the International Testing Agency (ITA), leading an independent anti-doping programme for United

System (LIMS) relating to 2012 provided by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia's national anti-doping

Championships, officially completed her ban on March 1 earlier this year having admitted to the anti-doping

 The cases have been part of an investigation conducted by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Intelligence


Alan Hubbard: How on earth did rope-a-doped Amir Khan end up cleaning toilets?

  • Inside the Blogs

Amir Khan is currently in the jungle. No, not to rumble like Ali and Foreman back in the 1970s but as a contestant in the hit TV reality show "I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!"

Nonetheless he was banned for two years by The British Boxing Board of Control as the World Anti-Doping

fellow fighter, Conor Benn, son of former world champion Nigel has finally been suspended by UK Anti-Doping

Let’s hope he really is innocent.British boxer Conor Benn has been suspended by UK Anti-Doping for twice


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  • Budapest 2023 Sponsored Section

2023Information included how to deal with the expected 3,500 media representatives, as well as an anti-doping



Timetable

  • Budapest 2023 Sponsored Section

The 19th World Athletics Championships is due to take place in Budapest over nine days of competition, from August 19 to 27, in the 35,000-capacity National Athletics Centre that has been newly built on the banks of the River Danube. 

Koch's performance will have an eternal question mark given the doping regime that existed in her country

Naser missed the Olympics and 2022 World Championships after serving a two-year ban for anti-doping whereabouts

last year, Kenyan-born Norah Jeruto, representing Kazakhstan, has been provisionally suspended for doping


More than 200 attend NOCRB Athletes' Forum to discuss Russia and Belarus in international sport

  • EOC

More than 200 individuals took part in the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus' (NOCRB) Athletes' Forum, which also featured Russian representation and provided views on both countries' status in international sport.

suspension.Russian athletes were allowed to compete under their own flag despite revelations of the state-sponsored doping

suspension of the ROC, and under the ROC flag at Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 because of World Anti-Doping