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British Sports Minister to join World Anti-Doping Agency Foundation Board

  • News

Britain's Minister for Sport Tracey Crouch will join the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation Board

Now is the time to take a united, global approach to eliminate doping and I look forward to working together

 Canda's Richard Pound, whose Independent Commission found evidence of state-supported doping in

Richard Pound, the Canadian who led the Independent Commission which found evidence of state-supported doping

the Sports Minister, Tracey Crouch MP to the WADA Foundation Board at this important time for anti-doping

body, claims PoundOctober 2015: New independent anti-doping body to be considered following Olympic


Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation files appeal at CAS against Rio 2016 expulsion

  • Weightlifting

) to ban its athletes from next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, owing to multiple positive doping

been fined $500,000 (£334,000/€460,000) after 11 of its athletes were found to have committed anti-doping

already suspended for doping.Bulgarian weightlifter Ivan Markov is currently serving an 18-month ban for doping

strongest sport at the Games behind wrestling.The BWF was temporarily stripped of its licence due to doping


Bach vows to renew trust in sport in wake of "upsetting" sporting scandals

  • Olympics

President Thomas Bach has vowed to renew the trust in sport in the wake of a series of corruption and doping

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) following the release of an explosive World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) Independent Commission report which alleged state-supported doping in the country.It

meeting which opened here today, claimed he was an advocate for life bans for those found guilty of doping

“This is the very worst ‘side-effect’ of doping.

Russia will clean up its act in time for Rio 2016November 2015: Bach claims fully independent anti-doping


Nick Butler: Wooing of Wu by Thomas Bach shows importance of focusing on the athletes

  • Inside the Blogs

Most medal winners at this weekend’s World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Grand Prix Finals were naturally preoccupied with end of season celebrations following their competitions, or with watching their team-mates while finding somewhere to deposit the large sombreros awarded as part of the podium ceremony.I was somewhat surprised, therefore, to spot China’s under 49 kilograms champion Wu Jingyu handing out a flyer covered with pictures of her alongside the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Thomas Bach, the morning after her victory.

Games” may be one of the most trotted-out clichés in sport - trailing behind only “zero tolerance on doping

these columns in recent weeks as they tread water despairingly to react to the latest tidal wave of doping


David Owen: FIFA - a glimmer of hope while rearranging the deckchairs

  • Inside the Blogs

Working your way through the 240-page “superseding indictment” unveiled last week by United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch by way of a powerful aftershock to the earthquake that laid waste to the FIFA Congress in May, it would be all too easy to form the view that we should disband FIFA and start all over again with governance of the world’s most popular sport.

bit as bleakly compelling as the recent 300-plus page Pound report into allegations of widespread doping


More embarrassment for Russia as revealed 2005 IAAF World Championships bronze medallist tested positive

  • Athletics

Russia's Tatyana Andrianova has been stripped of the 800 metres bronze medal she won at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Helsinki in 2005.

Federation, who are currently suspended by the IAAF following the publication last month of the World Anti-Doping

Agency Independent Commission which found evidence of state-support doping

began a long-term storage and retesting strategy concerning IAAF Championships with the storage of anti-doping

of Helsinki 2005 and Osaka 2007 samples using the latest technology available in the field of anti-doping

and taking advantage of the new World Anti-Doping Code’s provision extending from eight to 10 years


International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation looking for fresh impetus with move to new headquarters

  • The Big Read

If British television show Family Fortunes was to ask 100 people to name a body related to the Paralympic Movement, I am pretty certain the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) would be the top answer.

a net deficit of £21,063 ($31,829/€29,246).It continues to work in cooperation with the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) to educate about anti-doping and to promote clean sport, and last year alone, IWAS conducted

Everybody is quite aware of all the issues going on around anti-doping so we're also WADA compliant


Coe visits Tokyo as IAAF open new bid process for events taken away from Russia

  • Athletics

An accelerated bidding process has been opened by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for the reallocation of next year's World Race Walking Team Championships and World Junior Championships after both events were taken away from Russia.

The decision to redistribute the events follows Russia's suspension after publication of a World Anti-Doping

Agency Independent Commission which found evidence of state-support doping

as defends ability to lead IAAFNovember 2015: IAAF accused of trying to "muddy the waters" by anti-doping

following defence of testing regimeNovember 2015: IAAF claim they are a "pioneer" in fight against blood doping


Weight loss key to Froome transformation into Grand Tour winner as Briton releases physiological data

  • Cycling

Britain’s Chris Froome has released physiological data in an effort to convince doubters he won both his Tour de France titles as a clean rider.

booster Erythropoietin (EPO) during his career, among several critics to question whether Froome was doping

predicts Mont Ventoux as crucial stage as 2016 Tour de France route revealedOctober 2015: Total of 656 doping

surviving Quintana attack on stage 20July 2015: Michael Pavitt: Abuse of Froome shows danger of presuming doping


Restoring athletics' credibility has to be Coe's priority, warns Michael Johnson

  • Athletics

Athletics Fedeations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe needs to start introducing new policies to deal with doping

Athletics is currently reeling from a series of scandals, including allegations of state-supported doping

“Seb Coe certainly has his work cut out for him, not just with doping issues but with credibility and

"The issue is, though, when you move from the conversation being less about who may or may not be doping

“I don’t think anyone in the world thinks we’re going to get down to zero-doping," he said."

Doping is cheating, right?“Are we ever going to get to a point where no one cheats on anything?



Xoagub elected unopposed as Namibia National Olympic Committee President

  • ANOCA

Abner Xoagub has been announced as the President of the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) having been elected unopposed at their General Assembly.

were recent benefices of a training programme which saw the sport administrators participating in a doping

education course in Johannesburg.The event, arranged by the Regional Anti-Doping Organisation, was


Top Italian athletes among 26 facing doping bans

  • Athletics

 Fabrizio Donato is among 26 Italian athletes facing two-year bans for allegedly failing to provide doping

Details of the investigation by Italy's National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO) released by the Italian

that the sport was at "the crossroads" because the public's faith in it had been eroded by so many doping


Athletics is at "the crossroads" Coe tells British Parliament as defends ability to lead IAAF

  • Athletics

Sebastian Coe admitted here today that he faced a long campaign to restore peoples trust in athletics but that the alternative was unthinkable.

appeared before the British Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into blood doping

Sebastian Coe claimed he was angry when The Sunday Times published details of alleged blood doping in

clean athletes like Britain's Paula Radcliffe ©The Sunday TimesCoe, who was accompanied by IAAF anti-doping

manager Thomas Capdevielle, however, refused to back down on his accusation that stories about blood doping

Seb Coe in front of @CommonsCMS right now - recognises we've got a global #doping problem.


Brazilian Rio 2016 boxing hopeful facing Olympic KO after positive drug test

  • Boxing

Brazilian Olympic boxing hopeful Clelia Marques Da Costa has been provisionally suspended for 180 days having tested positive for the banned substance furosemide.

“Clelia Costa, was suspended for 180 days after being caught in anti-doping test carried out at the

end of last September, in São Paulo, at the request of the Brazilian Authority Doping control,” a Brazilian

 "This athlete tested positive in an out of competition test conducted by the Brazilian Doping