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RUSADA director general disputes claims it was slow to resolve Valieva case

  • Figure Skating

Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Veronika Loginova has disputed claims from the World

Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that it failed "to resolve the Kamila Valieva case promptly."

in November seeking a four-year ban for the Russian figure skater after she was at the centre of a doping

verdict in the Valieva case confidential by arguing she is a "protected person" under the World Anti-Doping

error-strewn performance in the free skating.Two-year sanctions against Russia for a state-sponsored doping

reduced to two years by the CAS.However, WADA has said RUSADA remains non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping


RUSADA given authorisation over anti-doping rules to comply with WADA regulation

  • Latest

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) will be given authority to approve anti-doping rules in the country

away from the Ministry of Sports, as the country looks to make reforms to comply with the World Anti-Doping

Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, according to which RUSADA will be able to approve anti-doping

The approval of the all-Russian anti-doping rules was previously the prerogative of the Ministry of Sports

 "The new powers will help the agency build a more effective anti-doping system in sports."

RUSADA continues to do its best to restore the status of compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code."

To ensure the right of athletes to doping-free competitions, RUSADA implements a national anti-doping


Russia claim Ukraine should not oppose Shcherbakova nomination for ISU award

  • Figure Skating

State Duma deputy and Turin 2006 Olympic speed skating gold medallist Svetlana Zhurova, has said Ukraine should not be lobbying the removal of Russian figure skater and Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova from the International Skating Union (ISU) award shortlist.

Shcherbakova's win at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was overshadowed by the scandal surrounding the doping


Exclusive: Pound calls for toughening of anti-doping "whereabouts" rules

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Richard Pound, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) doyen, has urged reform of the "whereabouts requirement" used for out-of-competition drug testing, claiming that a "game" is currently being played with respect to missed tests.

The Canadian, a former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), thinks that in some circumstances

official) should be able - where such conduct may reasonably be suspected as deliberate (for example the doping

key to establishing and cementing the body's credibility.This and his subsequent work on the Russian doping


The most important IOC member in history not to have been made President prepares to move upstairs

  • The Big Read

December 31 will bring a seismic moment for the International Olympic Committee (IOC): after 44 years, Richard William Duncan Pound will cease to be a full IOC member, having passed the applicable age-limit of 80.

Reedie, who would go on to follow one of the trails blazed by Pound as President of the World Anti-Doping

has to choose in which ditches one is prepared to die.The IOC ignoring the McLaren Report on Russian doping

 Given your long experience in the anti-doping field, are there any further reforms you would advocate

) should be able to - where such conduct may reasonably be suspected as deliberate (for example the Doping

had major reservations about an independent organisation overseeing matters and conduct relating to doping


Triple Olympic weightlifting champion Lu wants to "prove innocence" after doping suspension

  • Weightlifting

24-year weightlifting career and will "prove my innocence" after being provisionally suspended for doping

Since my return from retirement in August 2022, I have received a total of eight doping control tests

in strict accordance with related regulations of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and IWF as well as

China's anti-doping laws and regulations."

have undergone doping control tests with the highest frequency in the world."

The CWA is fully aware of the difficulty, complexity and permanency of anti-doping."


Laporte refuses to permanently step down as FFR President following Sports Minister meeting

  • Rugby Sevens

Despite a meeting with Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, French Rugby Federation (FFR) President Bernard Laporte has held firm to only step down temporarily regardless of her demands for him to vacate the role completely as the criminal investigation into his corruption charges takes place.

the French National Olympic and Sports Committee since 2017 and heads the Recovery Plan, Ethics and Doping


China's triple Olympic weightlifting champion Lu Xiaojun tests positive for EPO

  • Weightlifting

Lu Xiaojun, one of the biggest names in weightlifting and one of only five athletes to have won three Olympic gold medals in the sport, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO).

out-of-competition on October 30, according to the International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping

Pursuant to the IWF's delegation of its anti-doping program to the ITA, the prosecution of the case is

Lu is the third weightlifting medallist from Tokyo to have been provisionally suspended for doping this

this year ©Getty ImagesSix athletes came up positive in tests conducted by Kazakhstan's anti-doping

We spent $3million on anti-doping in the past year."




World Anti-Doping Agency praises European Union law enforcement for assistance during Operation Shield

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has thanked its law enforcement partners in the European Union (EU

successfully seized more than €40 million (£35.3 million/$42.5 million) worth of counterfeit medicine and doping

involved, it also resulted in a number of targeted testing campaigns being launched by several anti-doping

vindicates the Memorandum of Understanding between WADA and Europol signed in February 2021 regarding sports doping

, similar to one signed in 2009 with Interpol.There were 3,526 anti-doping controls in-competition conducted



Russian Antyukh officially loses London 2012 gold after not appealing doping sanctions

  • Athletics

Russia's Natalya Antyukh has had her results from the 2012 Olympic Games in London officially disqualified, allowing a reallocation of medals from the women's 400 metres hurdles final, more than 10 years later.

Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) charged the hurdler based on historical data at the former World Anti-Doping

if a decade later".Antyukh is one of a record 46 Russian competitors at London 2012 disqualified for doping

but this medal was already stripped six years ago when her team-mate Antonina Krivoshapka was given a doping



Three Olympic weightlifting champions and 700,000 Instagram followers - the new IWF Athletes Commission

  • Weightlifting

Three Olympic champions, a silver medallist and four others who lifted in Tokyo last year, including a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee team, are among the 10 elected members of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes Commission.

: "The main combat these days is to stay in the Olympic programme and to continue the fight against doping