Shot putter Nadezhda Ostapchuk has encouraged dissidents to return to Belarus following President Alexander Lukashenko's latest decree to allow protestors to come home - distancing herself from the 2020 and 2021 democracy demonstrations.

around," Ostapchuk, stripped of two Olympic, including gold at London 2012, and three world medals for doping

There are calls on the Government in Italy to improve the safety of cyclists following the death last year of former classics star Davide Rebellin after he was struck in a hit-and-collision involving a lorry driver.

there, particularly in one-day classics and week-long stage races, were somewhat overshadowed by a doping

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has warned the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOCU) that it will violate the Olympic Charter if it boycotts next year’s Olympics in Paris over the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus.

throw champion Gerd Kanter, also believe that there was "no trust" in Russian athletes due to previous doping

Divine Oduduru has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for possession and use of a banned substance after being named as the second athlete connected to disgraced therapist Brian Lira, after compatriot Blessing Okagbare.

United States - which allows criminal charges to be brought against those found to have committed anti-doping

encrypted messaging, supplying them with performance-enhancing drugs.Divine Oduduru was linked to the doping

hormone.In February 2022, the now 34-year-old was handed a 11-year suspension for "multiple breaches of anti-doping

rules".The Rodchenkov Act was named after Grigory Rodchenkov, who led Russia's state-sponsored doping

There has been renewed criticism from figure skaters still waiting to receive the Olympic medals they won in the team event at Beijing 2022 on the first anniversary of insidethegames exclusively revealing that Russia’s Kamila Valieva had tested positive for banned drugs.

Beijing 2022 has been compromised by the Kamila Valieva scandal ©Getty ImagesLast month, the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency Disciplinary Committee effectively cleared Valieva of a doping offence after they accepted her

To read Duncan Mackay: A year to the day since insidethegames exposed Kamila Valieva doping case at Beijing

Gudaf Tsegay failed to break the women's indoor mile record at the ORLEN Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, the third of this season's World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings, but her time of 4min 16.16sec was the second fastest ever.

the Czech Republic’s Jolanda Ceplak, who ran 1:55.82 in 2002, five years before she served a two-year doping

A year ago today, insidethegames broke the biggest doping story in the Olympic Games since Ben Johnson

russia @Olympic_Russia @ISU_Figure— insidethegames (@insidethegames) February 9, 2022I had broken big doping

favourites for gold medals in their home Games, and their coach Christos Tzekos, were implicated in a doping

A team official assured them it was not a joke, and that it involved an unspecified doping case.

with the case almost certainly heading to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the Russian Anti-Doping

Doping very rarely happens alone, there is always an entourage."

coach who has successfully challenged a lifetime ban says he was "offered up as a scapegoat" for a doping

an independent IWF panel for turning his life into "a nightmare" and making him a scapegoat for the doping

the Championships, and five of the athletes were minors, including two 14-year-old girls.The IWF anti-doping

with the International Testing Agency (ITA) in 2019 and has since put the administration of all anti-doping

internal conflicts and problems that existed in the past, as well as working seriously in combating doping

Seven Russian boxers have moved within one victory of gold at the International Boxing Association's (IBA) World Boxing Tour Golden Belt Series in Moroccan city Marrakesh.

to compete under the national flag since the nation was sanctioned in 2019 over the state-sponsored doping

Winter Paralympics ice hockey silver medallist Konstantin Shikhov has been handed an 18-month ban for a doping

and masking agents, forbidden without a therapeutic use exemption.In January 2022, the Russian Anti Doping

Agency (RUSADA) found Shikhov had committed an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) but concluded that

 The IPC warned that it will continue to monitor decisions made by national doping agencies.It will

on from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics being rocked by insidethegames exclusive revelation of the doping

controversy for her treatment of the-then 15-year-old Valieva at the Games.Valieva was at the centre of a doping

Executive Committee member Sergey Sviridov.Teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva is at the centre of a doping

tested positive for a banned substance at the Russian Championships on December 25.The Russian Anti-Doping

only punishment should be disqualification from the Russian Championships.RUSADA and the World Anti-Doping

not to appeal.WADA has already admitted it is "concerned" by the finding and the United States Anti-Doping

Khaled Korany, who was banned from weightlifting for life after being held responsible for a doping scandal

later and Korany did not hear of his lifetime ban until January 2022 - more than five years after the doping

Khaled Korany/FacebookEgypt was banned from competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of its doping

World Athletics has approved the applications of six Russian athletes to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA), adding to the existing list of neutral athletes.

The World Athletics Doping Review Board found they met the eligibility criteria to participate at international

events while the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) remains suspended due to historic doping offences

disqualification of results and bans for testing positive for banned substances from the state-sponsored doping

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar has been handed a backdated 21-month suspension for a failed doping test running

International Gymnastics Federation on October 11 in 2021.A case resolution agreement outlined in the FIG Anti-Doping

with Karmakar.This allows for a reduction in the suspension period where an athlete admits an anti-doping

2023Karmakar joins a growing list of athletes in a number of Indian sports to have become caught up in doping

Karmakar insisted that she had not intentionally committed an anti-doping rule violation."

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Mohammed Jalood was part of a delegation that visited Havana, Cuba, last month before the Grand Prix event set to be held in the country.

the June Grand Prix, set to act as a qualifier for Paris 2024.Jalood and Quinones visited the anti-doping