A letter reiterating the aims of next week's crunch SportAccord Extraordinary General Meeting has been sent out by Council chairman Gian-Franco Kasper following more suggestions there is no longer any need for the body.

which does "not involve duplication of those provided by other stakeholders".This could include the Doping

SportAccord were present on a far greater basis than non-Olympic ones.The proposal for a new independent anti-doping

activities across all IFs proposed at last month's Olympic Summit also appears to lessen the need for the Doping

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has had several offers from countries willing to house its headquarters - should the current political crisis force them out of Kuwait, they have claimed. 

claimed that Kuwait would no longer comply with the Court of Arbitration for Sport or the World Anti-Doping

Eliud Kipchoge and Mare Dibaba are the two stars to be nominated for the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athlete of the Year award in the road running category.

the Year AwardOctober 2015: IAAF avoids repeat of 2014 Gatlin award controversy by ruling out serious doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Commission Report into alleged systematic doping within Russian athletics

chaired by Canada's founding WADA President Richard Pound, will present their report entitled "Top secret doping

January following allegations published on German television and in the Sunday Times alleging systematic doping

cover up, having been accused of taking money from Russia to hide positive doping tests.This is expected

2015: WADA Commission to complete investigation of athletics doping allegations by end of yearDecember

2014: Pound to spearhead investigation of athletics doping allegations

The first International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Sledge Hockey Youth Development Camp has been hailed as a success.

There were also classroom sessions on the Paralympic Movement and presentations on anti-doping and classification

Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack has been placed under investigation in France over an alleged doping

The 82-year-old Senegalese is accused of taking money from Russia to hide positive doping tests and is

investigation by French authorities while Gabriel Dolle, the former director of the IAAF's anti-doping

The IAAF confirms that, emanating from separate ongoing investigations by the World Anti-Doping Association's

commission and the IAAF’s own independent Ethics Commission into allegations surrounding its anti-doping

visit to Russia as President, where he said: "I expressed my uncompromising position on the issue of doping

FIFA Reform Committee chair François Carrard has claimed solving problems within football's world governing body will be harder than addressing similar issues within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the late 1990s due to the need to pacify 209 contrasting National Associations.

Movement's recovery from the Salt Lake City scandal, as well as the founding President of the World Anti-Doping

Directly carrying out drug-testing would be a "natural extension" of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (

An independent anti-doping body was proposed at last month's Olympic Summit in Lausanne ©IOC/Christophe

accredit laboratories which are then used for testing, and provide guidelines through the World Anti-Doping

2015: Coe to set-up IAAF integrity unit to help sport fight doping crisisAugust 2015: Bach "would still

support" lifetime bans for doping but admits they are not legally realisticAugust 2015: New doping allegations

Commission investigationJune 2015: Nick Butler: FIFA and SportAccord high on agenda but what about doping

Sebastian Coe has stressed the need for athletics "to build trust and defend clean athletes at all times" during his first official visit to Russia as the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

medallist revealed he is in the process of creating a new integrity unit to help athletics fight the doping

implicated Russia and in February, ARAF President Valentin Balakhnichev resigned after a number of doping

This included a German television programme in December accusing him of being involved in a systematic doping

I expressed my uncompromising position on the issue of doping in athletics and the importance for the

Related storiesOctober 2015: Coe to set-up IAAF integrity unit to help sport fight doping crisisSeptember

Mo Farah and Genzebe Dibaba are the latest two athletes to make the longlist for the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athlete of the Year Award.

Gala in Monaco on November 28.This year’s awards will not be open to athletes who have had serious doping

the Year AwardOctober 2015: IAAF avoids repeat of 2014 Gatlin award controversy by ruling out serious doping

Kuwait's Government has reportedly decided to withdraw the country from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) during a cabinet meeting at Bayan Palace, casting doubt on the future of the new OCA headquarters in the Gulf nation's capital.

meaning the country would no longer comply with the Court of Arbitration for Sport or the World Anti-Doping

Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica has been announced as the first name on the longlist for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) men’s Athlete of the Year award following the closure of the opening round of voting.

regarded as the best athlete in history, came into the event in the Chinese capital with convicted doping

Gala in Monaco on November 28.This year’s awards will not be open to athletes who have had serious doping

award.Related storiesOctober 2015: IAAF avoids repeat of 2014 Gatlin award controversy by ruling out serious doping

Problems within football's world governing body FIFA will be a major part of discussions at the Securing Sport 2015 Conference starting here tomorrow, with speakers including Presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale, Reform Committee chair François Carrard and US Soccer President Sunil Gulati.

Another speaker will be former World Anti-Doping Agency head Richard Pound, with the Canadian IOC member

To me, the July 2005 vote to decide the host of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics conjures memories of a school trip to the Tower of London, fittingly enough, with a friend suddenly interrupting a lecture about the illustrious history of the city to bring tidings of a latest triumph.

He has since served on three IOC Commissions as well as the World Anti-Doping Agency Foundation Board

of the most overly used clichés in sport politics, trailing only Agenda 2020 and “zero tolerance on doping

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has become the latest body to suspend Kuwait due to "political interference" by the country's Government.  

meaning the country would no longer comply with the Court of Arbitration for Sport or the World Anti-Doping