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Suspended prison sentence leaves star Bulgarian weightlifter Nasar clear for Paris 2024 quest

  • Weightlifting

Karlos Nasar, the record-breaking teenaged weightlifter from Bulgaria, is clear to continue on the path to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after being given a suspended sentence for a serious driving offence that could have landed him in prison for three years.

confirm the presence of any drugs in his bloodstream and cannot be charged with any offence by anti-doping

account Nasar's previously clean record - no criminal record, no adverse findings in more than a dozen doping



Birmingham 2022 anti-doping programme praised by WADA as former Commonwealth Games champion enjoys giving

  • Birmingham 2022

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Observer team has praised the drug testing programme

The IO team observed all aspects of Birmingham 2022’s anti-doping programme, including test planning

at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games," Poland’s Michal Rynkowski, director of the Polish Anti-Doping

in protecting the integrity of the Games and congratulate them on successfully delivering the anti-doping

“I would also like to commend UK Anti-Doping for its strong commitment and its role in delivering a robust

anti-doping programme at Birmingham 2022.


Beijing praised for creating sustainable legacy one year after Winter Olympics

  • Beijing 2022

Organisers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have been praised for creating a lasting impact in China and implementing technologies to help make winter sport more sustainable in the future one year after staging the Games.

record in Tibet and Hong Kong coming under scrutiny.The Winter Olympics were also overshadowed by the doping


Shcherbakova not invited to ISU Skating Awards due to "security concerns" even though nominated for top prize

  • Figure Skating

Russian Olympic gold medallist Anna Shcherbakova has not been invited to tomorrow's International Skating Union (ISU) Skating Awards in Zürich because of "security concerns".

Alexandra Trusova to gold in the women's singles at Beijing 2022.The competition was overshadowed by a doping

Shcherbakova won the Olympic gold medal in a women's singles event at Beijing 2022 overshadowed by the doping


Thailand to boycott kickboxing at Southeast Asian Games after row with Cambodia over name of sport

  • Southeast Asian Games

A row over the name of the kickboxing competition at this year's Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Cambodia has erupted after Thailand announced they were boycotting the sport there because local organisers are using the local name Kun Khmer rather than Muay Thai.

But NOCT deputy chairman Warin Tansupasiri claimed that the KKIF is not recognised by the World Anti-Doping


UCI open to allowing Russian athletes to race as neutrals despite "hostility" fears

  • Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has backed the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) plans to consider allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in international events despite fears over "hostile positions" from European nations.

supporting the war in Ukraine" would not be able to participate and must comply with the World Anti-Doping


US figure skaters pose with empty Beijing 2022 medal presentation cases to illustrate frustration over Valieva delay

  • Figure Skating

that the Olympic medals for the team event at Beijing 2022 have still not been awarded because of the doping

Beijing 2022, but could be promoted to the Olympic gold medal if Kamila Valieva is found guilty of a doping

December 25 but the result was not revealed until the day after the team event finished.The Russian Anti-Doping

only punishment should be to 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

WADA and the International Skating Union to appeal against it.If Valieva is ruled to have committed a doping



Norwegian IOC member and Olympic champion Jacobsen under fire for wanting Russian athletes at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) has been pitched into constitutional turmoil and conflict with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 

have equivocal views regarding the Winter Olympics in Beijing last year, where Russia again breached doping

regulations and, under intended neutral representation within their national doping suspension - for

continued doping infringement - replaced the medal presentation national anthem with provocative Pyotr


ITA recruiting for more staff to carry out anti-doping operations at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The International Testing Agency (ITA) has launched a search for candidates to train to run the anti-doping

The Lausanne-based body was also responsible for anti-doping at both Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022, and

Become an anti-doping sampler for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games."

Special anti-doping sampling training for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games."

Anti-doping collectors work on the front lines of testing athletes at the Olympic Games.Participants

ITA is partnering with the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) for the anti-doping operations at the Games.The


ASEAN looking for collective efforts to help stage Para Games later this year

  • Paralympics

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Para Sports Federation (APSF) has called on stakeholders to "strive collectively" to ensure the successful hosting of the 2023 ASEAN Para Games.

OC) with positive outcomes, involving various committees including sports, technical, medical, anti-doping


IOC warn Pozdnyakov that conditions Russian athletes must compete under at Paris 2024 are non-negotiable

  • EOC

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has been swiftly closed down by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today after he complained about the potential conditions that athletes from the country may be forced to compete under if they are allowed to take part at Paris 2024. 

athletes were prevented from competing following the revelations about the country's state-sponsored doping


David Owen: Ukraine is another PR disaster in the making for the IOC

  • Inside the Blogs

The Thomas Bach era has not been kind to the Olympic brand; but things could get a whole lot worse if the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President persists with a course that could see Russian athletes lining up at Paris 2024, yet not Ukrainian ones.

most of my peers about blanket bans being imposed on Russian athletes as a consequence of the Russian doping