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Russian doping tests at Sochi 2014 Paralympics "suspicious" compared with those from other countries,

  • Sochi 2014 Paralympics

Russians at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics undertook doping tests in different rooms to athletes from

and distracted by the priority of preparing for competition.He is not accusing Russian athletes of doping

the entire anti-doping programme, and raised zero concerns.

“The IPC’s anti-doping procedures from Sochi 2014 were widely praised by WADA."

Their Independent Observers report said: 'The anti-doping programme implemented by the IPC at the Sochi

 They claimed there is "no reason" to question the credibility of the anti-doping testing regime


Athletics Kenya agree to increase athletes' representation as two-day protest ends

  • Athletics

Kenyan athletes have been urged to respect the "rule of law rather than the jungle" by the country's Sports Commissioner as their two-day occupation of the Athletics Kenya headquarters in Nairobi came to an end.

it had been investigating Kenya since March, which came after Richard Pound, who led the World Anti-Doping

Diack remaining under investigation by Interpol after, it is was alleged he accepted bribes to cover up doping

 Kenyan athletes storm headquarters in protest at alleged corruptionNovember 2015: Kenyan doping

athletes competing in endurance athletics events, claims PoundNovember 2015: Future of Russian Anti-Doping


Three world records broken on final day of ISU World Cup event in Salt Lake City

  • Skating

American Brittany Bowe rounded off the second International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Speed Skating event in style as she broke the women’s 1,000 metres world record on home ice in Salt Lake City.

medal of the weekend by winning the men’s 500m event in 34.13sec.The Russian, who served a two-year doping


Nick Butler: Baseball provides a traditional twist on all-action nature of modern sport

  • Inside the Blogs

I felt a little out of my depth on arrival in Tokyo last week for the finale of the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) inaugural Premier12 tournament.

consisting of comebacks, rivalries and moments of genius and error rather than the sordid mass of doping

, Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez - now a commentator for FoxSports - have all been implicated in doping


Kenyan athletes storm headquarters in protest at alleged corruption

  • Athletics

A group of athletes have stormed the headquarters of Athletics Kenya in protest at the leadership of current chairman Isaiah Kiplagat, following allegations of deep-rooted corruption within the governing body.

Nairobi and locked themselves in, calling for the removal of Kiplagat, currently accused of covering up doping

it had been investigating Kenya since March, which came after Richard Pound, who led the World Anti-Doping

of Athletics Kenya chairman Isaiah Kiplagat ©Getty ImagesKenya has a turbulent past when it comes to doping

period of four years.Jeptoo, one of the most high profile Kenyan athletes to have been hit with a doping

ban, insists an unknown doctor injected her with prohibited substance EPO, causing her to fail a doping


British Rowing "incredibly disappointed" after duo are given two-year bans for doping violations

  • Rowing

said it is "incredibly disappointed" after two of its athletes were handed two-year suspensions for doping

people more alert.The pair were tested during the competition with both cases then passed to UK Anti-Doping

British Rowing takes a very clear stance on anti-doping and we are incredibly disappointed with both

our sport clean through on-going and extensive education programmes related to doping.  

"Both these athletes and Oxford Brookes University Boat Club had received formal anti-doping education

Andy Parkinson said both rowers had received anti-doping training ©Getty ImagesIn the case of Hoogland


Chinese player provisionally suspended by Badminton World Federation for failed drugs test

  • Badminton

player Yu Xiaohan has been provisionally suspended by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for an anti-doping

in-competition test for banned diuretic furosemide.The 21-year-old now faces a hearing in front of the BWF Doping

Rule Violation.”Yu Xiaohan (left) is due to face a BWF Doping Hearing Panel in January 2016 ©Badminton

’s ban comes amid a turbulent time for sport following the publication of the explosive World Anti-Doping

were one of the countries cited by the report as having problems with doping, with the country having

violationOctober 2014: Chinese hammer throw champion stripped of Asian Games gold after failing doping


UCI World Tour reforms unanimously rejected by International Association of Cycling Race Organizers

  • Cycling

The International Cycling Union’s (UCI) World Tour reforms have been unanimously rejected by the International Association of Cycling Race Organizers (AIOCC), with 77 voting against the process at a meeting in Hamburg.

to apply on an annual basis as well as having to meet 10 operational requirements ranging from anti-doping

rebranding of governing body's imageMay 2015: Exclusive: Cycling chief Cookson supports calls for doping


Two world records fall on dramatic day at ISU World Cup

  • Skating

Ted-Jan Bloemen of Canada and Heather Richardson of the United States both set world records on their way to gold on a thrilling day of action at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Speed Skating event in Salt Lake City.

the men’s 1000m to seal his second gold medal of the competition.Kulizhnikov, who served a two-year doping


Donna de Varona: A message to FIFA leadership

  • Inside the Blogs

Leading up to the US hosted 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup I served as the chairman of the organising committee. As one who had spent decades in the Olympic World it was both a daunting challenge and a privilege to take part in what would become the most successful Women’s World Cup in history. 

   Corruption and failure to deal with doping were two issues that forced change within the



Diack's role in awarding of 2021 IAAF World Championships to Eugene questioned by former Interpol chief

  • Athletics

A police investigation must be held into the International Associations of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) awarding of the 2021 World Championships to Eugene, a former head of Interpol has claimed following the release of letters sent to Lamine Diack, then head of the governing body. 

of Diack last month, however, following allegations he accepted bribes in order to cover up failed doping

corruption scandalNovember 2015: Diack son among group facing disciplinary action over Russian doping


Kulizhnikov continues return from drugs ban by breaking own world speed skating record

  • Skating

Russia’s Pavel Kulizhnikov became the first man to dip below the 34 second mark in the men's 500 metres as he broke his own world record on the opening day of the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup Speed Skating event in Salt Lake City.

Kulizhnikov, who served a two-year doping ban between 2012 and 2014, took advantage of the fast ice


Russian whistleblowers face legal action from athletes named in World Anti-Doping Agency Independent

  • Athletics

led to Russia being suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for doping

Myazina and Kristina Ugarova, who were among five athletes recommended for life bans in the World Anti-Doping

The 29-year-old Stepanova, a former world-class 800 metres runner who was herself suspended for doping

describing how they used performance-enhancing drugs.She and her husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping

agency official, were the key witnesses in the ARD documentary Top-secret Doping: How Russia makes its

-page report, which included transcripts of conversations with her coach Vladimir Kazarin about the doping


Chinese badminton player stripped of two medals after failing drugs test during Gwangju 2015

  • Badminton

Chinese badminton player Yu Xiaohan has been stripped of two silver medals won at the Gwangju 2015 Summer Universiade after failing an in-competition test for banned diuretic furosemide, it has been reported.

A woman shuttler named Yu Xiaohan has been tested positive in the routine doping check during the Gwangju

Three days before our departure for Gwangju, FUSC had carried out a complete doping test for all the

within China, a country which has been cited as one with problems following the World Anti-Doping Agency

Independent Commission verdict of "systemic" doping within the Russian athletics team last week. 

violationOctober 2014: Chinese hammer throw champion stripped of Asian Games gold after failing doping