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United States Muaythai becomes latest USOPC member

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Muaythai has been officially approved by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and recognised by the body's Board as the newest member.

Movement and will continue to work in good governance making the athletes the center and focusing on anti-doping


Russian hammer thrower set to be stripped of medals after confessing to doping

  • Athletics

stripped of the bronze medal he won at the 2014 European Athletics Championships after he admitted doping

Federation (RusAF) for pressurising him to take banned drugs.Following his admission, the Russian Anti-Doping

Before using them, I threw 79 metres, doping helped me improve my results by 2 metres."

To improve without improvement in these things, but with doping, does not make any sense."

When the Russian doping scandal started, I tried my best to improve the situation in my country, created

doping investigative in Russian sports]."


Indian Olympic Association President warns country they need to tackle doping problem

  • OCA

drugs testing as it struggles to shake off its reputation for being one of the worst in the world for doping

President last month, has vowed to tackle the problem.Yesterday, she held talks with India's National Anti-Doping

Athletics Federation of India, wrote for The Economic Times.India will need to clean up its record on doping

launch a bid for the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games.That could be hampered if India’s record on doping


Valieva voted Russia's most popular sports personality in annual poll

  • Figure Skating

Figure skater Kamila Valieva, currently facing a four-year drugs ban after testing positive before the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, has been voted Russia’s most popular athlete.

’s singles at Beijing 2022, an event where Valieva finished fourth as controversy over her positive doping

age of 15 when the test was conducted, she was considered a minor under the rules of the World Anti-Doping

Code.The sample in question was taken on December 25 in 2021, but only reported by the World Anti-Doping

skating.Last November, WADA registered an appeal to the CAS seeking a ruling that Valieva committed an anti-doping


London 2012 high jump champion and dope cheat Chicherova announces retirement

  • Athletics

London 2012 Olympic high jump champion and drugs cheat Anna Chicherova of Russia has announced her retirement.

An official application was submitted to the federation and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency at the end

of her Olympic bronze from Beijing 2008 and her silver medal from the 2009 World Championships for doping


Court rules in favour of World Aquatics in ISL anti-trust lawsuit

  • Swimming

The United States District Court in San Francisco has sided with World Aquatics over two anti-trust lawsuits filed against the organisation by the International Swimming League (ISL) and two swimmers.

WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) and FINA’s Anti-Doping Code must be adhered to at all times."


Athletics doping in Russia is on the decline, says RUSADA

  • Athletics

Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Veronika Loginova has claimed domestic doping in

Loginova has pointed to the independent audit into anti-doping changes in the Russian Athletics Federation

preparations were underway for the audit of the RusAF, the question arose about the number of anti-doping

 "This applies to both planning and the process of doping sampling.

nbsp;"We have very strict rules, everything happens in accordance with the standards of the World Anti-Doping

RUSADA is still working on becoming compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (WADA), which would further


Michael Houston: Kenya doping scandal is a red face, but incomparable to Russia

  • Inside the Blogs

Heartbreaks and "what ifs?" continue to dominate athletics, robbing athletes of the greatest moments of their careers, before they are awarded with a small consolation years later.

in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), now known as World Athletics, with doping

but the IAAF caught none of them.Later, it was proven that Diack was involved in bribery related to doping

was found in the Moscow World Anti-Doping-accredited laboratory.

 Marathon winners, Olympic champions and world-record holders have fallen to doping scandals in

programme.Asbel Kiprop is one of the most notable Kenyans to face a doping ban ©Getty ImagesIt's the


Indian weightlifter who was "suicidal" over doping mix-up in US tests positive again

  • Weightlifting

A double Commonwealth Games weightlifting champion has been charged with a doping violation two and a

Sanjita Chanu, 29, has been provisionally suspended after the National Anti-Doping Agency of India found

in dealing with her sample, taken before the 2017 IWF World Championships by the United States Anti-Doping

Agency (USADA) and analysed in Salt Lake City, the World Anti-Doping Agency said.It advised the IWF,

which unlike now was responsible for its anti-doping procedures, to drop the charge against Chanu.Chanu

Commonwealth Games gold medals in April 2018 when she should have been suspended, but she was unaware of her doping


Brian Oliver: Dopers doing their damnedest to damage IWF’s "save weightlifting" effort

  • Inside the Blogs

Eight days ago Mohamed Jalood, President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), sent out a message to the governing body’s 194 members in which he reflected on what had happened in 2022, a year that "can and must mark the start of a new future for weightlifting."

made in the IWF’s troubled past, to relocate to the "Olympic city" of Lausanne.In the realm of anti-doping

had tested positive for EPO.Lu was the second Tokyo Olympic medallist provisionally suspended for a doping

very good job of catching the cheats by using intelligence, working more closely with national anti-doping

clear for all to see this week when the ITA published a list of athletes who had been suspended for doping

featured 44 times, and many of these offences were already in the public domain.But 23 of those 109 doping


Kenya confirm plans to bid for 2029 World Athletics Championships

  • Athletics

Kenya has revealed plans to bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships after missing out on the 2025 hosting rights last year.

William Ruto and Sports Minister Abadu Namwamba as well as representatives from Athletics Kenya and anti-doping

athletes.There were fears that Athletics Kenya would be banned by World Athletics following a spate of positive doping

and India with 65.Kenya is one of seven "Category A" nations deemed by the AIU to have the highest doping


"No suggestion" of state-sponsored doping in Kenya, says World Athletics chief

  • Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed that there is "no suggestion" of state-sponsored doping

worldwide governing body after Coe was impressed by the Kenyan Government's swift action to tackle the doping

programme that was revealed in 2016.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) sanctions, watered down by the

Court of Arbitration for Sport, ended last month, but the Russian Anti-Doping Agency continues to be

amongst our athletes," said the CS, "I assure you that doping is not state sponsored and we welcome

President Coe lauded the government's efforts to fight the doping menace, thanking H.E.




Western nations considering Paris 2024 boycott if Russia is allowed to compete

  • Paris 2024

The renewed aspiration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for maintaining "universality" with ideological integration at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - embracing drug-free athletes from Russia and Belarus uninvolved in Ukraine atrocities - could be spectacularly counter-productive.

Craig Reedie, director of the London 2012 Organising Committee and former President of the World Anti-Doping