Kenyan athlete Lilian Mariita has been banned for eight years after her second anti-doping violation

, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has announced.

International Fencing Federation (FIE) President Alisher Usmanov says that Russian fencers set to compete at Rio 2016 should be drugs-tested ahead of the Olympics - to remove any speculation about possible cheating. 

Russian sport has been rocked after claims by the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Independent Commission

, which alleged widespread state-sponsored doping in athletics, and the findings mean other sports in

that athletes had a possibility of resorting to banned substances while the activities of the anti-doping

A total of 11 countries were mentioned in the doping scandal besides Russia," he said.

"Definitely not the whole Russian athletic team must be subjected to the ban, as most of the proved doping

Italian cyclist Luca Paolini has admitted cocaine use caused him to produce a positive drug test at this year’s Tour de France, and has also revealed an addiction to sleeping pills.

resolved.Ahead of his case being heard by the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) independent Anti-Doping

of the substance following his positive test, is still set to have his case heard by the UCI Anti-Doping

Tribunal.While the stimulant cocaine is banned in competition under the World Anti-Doping Agency Code

notification of his positive test.The Italian has been the only cyclist to date to be implicated in a doping

scandal at this year’s Tour de France, where a total of 656 doping controls were carried out, including

surprised if its weightlifters are banned from competing at Rio 2016 following a string of recent doping

announcement marked another dark day for Russian sport after the country was accused of a “state-supported” doping

and bite as hard as possible, including up to full disqualification.”The announcement of 17 failed doping

Asian Games boxing silver medallist Manpreet Singh of India remains hopeful he will be not be hit with a ban from the sport despite a positive test which forced him to withdraw from the World Military Games.

The move by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) to occasionally rebrand themselves as World Taekwondo has garnered interest from outside the sporting world, judging by a brief search on the internet this morning.

was claimed to have modernised the governing body's image which had been dented by its handling of doping

to me yesterday as I trawled through the latest 17 athletes who had been provisionally suspended for doping

bans earlier this year, suggesting lessons have yet to be learnt or that education of the risks of doping

The Federation have already pointed to the cases as “clear proof how effective the anti-doping fight

in the sport instead of leading the battle.While both the IWF and IAAF have doping problems to tackle

The former head of the scandal-hit Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has claimed that 40 per cent of

clean up its act following a stream of damaging allegations, particularly those of state sponsored doping

which were revealed by the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Independent Commission report.If he is

job on its hands than was initially feared with a whole new generation of athletes perhaps used to a doping

The problem of doping in Russia, of course, is acute and this cannot be denied," Khabriev told R-Sport

The results of our activity show that we have the most violations in anti-doping rules in comparison

made significant steps to boost its integrity and credibility in 2015, citing progress made in anti-doping

those including the establishment of a storage and re-testing strategy, working with the World Anti-Doping

that the other failed to honour its terms.Cookson has also expressed his view that cycling’s anti-doping

procedures have been strengthened by the introduction of new Anti-Doping Rules to reflect the 2015

sanctions on teams whose riders have doped are now in place.Brian Cookson believes cycling's anti-doping

improving and making the sport more credible ©Getty ImagesAdditionally the establishment of an Anti-Doping

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) named supreme Serbian Novak Djokovic as the male World Champion of 2015 this week to further cement the 28-year-old’s position as the best player on the planet.

Beijing in August.The Somalian-born Briton has been forced to fend off accusation after accusation about doping

You cannot win a race or a tennis match without someone, somewhere accusing you of doping, and what

share of run-ins with the tennis authorities after he launched a scathing attack on the sport’s anti-doping

never put anything illegal into his body while offering strong views on those who have been caught doping

Russia’s world champion Aleksei Lovchev is among 17 athletes who have been suspended for positive drug tests by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) following last month's World Championships in Houston, United States.

Weightlifting has been plagued by doping scandals and the latest raft of names to be released includes

the IWF Executive Board decided to ban Bulgaria from competing at Rio 2016 due to multiple positive doping

Championships the IWF has stated that “the new findings are clear proof how accurate the IWF Anti-Doping

wheelchair basketball player has been banned for two years after failing to provide a sample for anti-doping

who played for the United States under-23 team in 2013, failed to provide a sample as requested by an doping

which began on October 27, 2015, the day he accepted a provisional sanction, the United States Anti-Doping

Australia's Olympic gold medallist Kylie Palmer has praised a decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency

(WADA) to not appeal against the International Swimming Federation (FINA) doping panel’s decision into

I am grateful that WADA have confirmed that it will not appeal the FINA Doping Panel's decision and

The 2014 financial statements of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) have now been posted on the body’s website, revealing a $3.5 million (£2.4 million/€3.2 million) loss and a sizeable hike in remuneration for President Marisol Casado.

by competitions and events, with over $1 million (£672,000/€915,000) earmarked for development.Anti-doping-related

Former International Cycling Union (UCI) President Hein Verbruggen has alleged Brian Cookson and the the world governing body breached their agreement to pay his legal costs after he threatened to take them to court over the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report.

Ethics Commission earlier this year following the CIRC report which investigated historic cases of doping

fully in place, it is for Cookson/UCI to live up to their signature.”The CIRC report investigated how doping

March.Complied by Swiss politician and state prosecutor Dr Dick Marty, with the support of German anti-doping

officer who specialises in criminal investigations, the report was aimed at investigating how doping

Sebastian Coe's chief aide Nick Davies tonight temporarily stood down from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) while the Ethics Commission investigated allegations he suggested delaying naming Russian athletes who had tested positive for banned-performance enhancing drugs.

Davies claimed in the emails they needed to "sit down" with anti-doping officials to discuss "Russian

promoted to Coe's chief of staff following his election in August, added that any Russian already caught doping

with ongoing criminal investigations by the French police, the IAAF’s Ethics Board or WADA (World Anti-Doping

since the publication of the WADA Independent Commission report which found evidence of state-supported doping