Master of Sport Administration (MSA) students from the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) completed a placement programme at last weekend's Formula One Russian Grand Prix in Sochi. 

they also aided the classification commissions, Games judges and representatives of the Russian Anti-Doping

European Athletics (EA) President Svein Arne Hansen says he is keen to strengthen relations in the Baltic countries after a visit to Lithuania.

long distance talentJuly 2015: European Athletics President Hansen test drives "driving licence" anti-doping

Kuwait has been given a deadline of October 27 to change a new law which threatens the independence of sports bodies, or face another ban from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following a meeting here between all stakeholders.

the Gulf nation no longer complies with either the Court of Arbitration for Sport or the World Anti-Doping

There was something rather surreal about sitting in the sun in our idyllic excuse for a press tribune at last weekend’s beach volleyball World Tour Finals in Fort Lauderdale, checking our phones every five minutes to be reminded of the misery unfolding four thousand miles away as England crashed out of their own World Cup with a humiliating and resounding defeat to Australia. “Now I think about it,” chortled one sympathetic American journalist afterwards. “You English really are rather useless at sport.”

When researching for a story on a failed doping test in football this week, I was shocked to discover

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has promised that any athlete denied a medal

athletes.Half of the money has been earmarked to fund social and scientific research pertaining to anti-doping

the rest will go towards tackling match-fixing.A separate fund has also been set aside for new anti-doping

supported.Related storiesOctober 2015: IOC to provide funding for seven research projects tackling doping

cent" despite increased testing in 2014August 2015: Bach "would still support" lifetime bans for doping

Hosts South Korea produced another solid display at the International Military Sports Council (CISM) World Games in Mungyeong as they claimed seven golds to secure fourth place on the overall medal table.

Italian Martina de Memme and Brazil’s Manuella Lyrio.Brazil’s Joao Gomes Jr, who served a six-month doping

Women’s tennis player Çağla Büyükakçay has been appointed President of the Turkish Olympic Committee's (TOC) Athletes' Commission.

commemorate Battle of Gallipoli centenaryJune 2015: Turkish Olympic Committee President hails bilateral anti-doping

The Chicago Marathon, which takes place today for the 38th time since it started in 1977 (they only ran a half marathon in 1987), will be historic. For the first time since Carey Pinkowski took over as race director in 1990, it will no longer be employing pacemakers.

I can only say I have given it my best shot.”All six premier marathons are taking a tough line on doping

Rotating the SportAccord Presidency between three year terms of representatives from the four consituent groups of International Federations is among proposals in new draft statutes of the organisation circulated to members this week.

provided by other Olympic and sports movement stakeholders but are complimentary".This should include the Doping

supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to illustrate its commitment to the fight against doping

open calls by the IOC for worldwide proposals.A repledging of their "zero-tolerance" attitude against doping

the rest will go towards tackling match-fixing.A separate fund has also been set aside for new anti-doping

research in the fight against doping, specifically for researchers involved in athlete-centered projects

©Getty ImagesThe chosen programmes involve two in Britain: studying "doping confrontation efficacy"

intervention app targeting the psychological variables that make an athlete susceptible to doping at

Macedonian midfielder Arijan Ademi failed a doping test following his club side Dinamo Zagreb's Champions

We are surprised because Ademi was selected for doping control six times this year and results were negative

Santi Cazorla during the Champions League group match ©Getty ImagesFootball is less associated with doping

sanctioned for 18 months for taking alkaloid drug ephedrine.Related storiesSeptember 2015: UEFA denies doping

problem in European footballSeptember 2014: Tajikistan footballer registers first positive doping test

Ice sledge hockey is set to take another major step forward in its development when the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) hosts the sport’s first youth camp in Langenhagen, Germany from October 29 to November 1.

covering gym training and stick handling.There will also be education sessions on topics such as anti-doping

Yea verily, we are at the epicentre of significant sporting activity. Even as we speak. ( Even though we are not actually speaking. But you get what I mean.)  

the wily Swiss dangles, provisionally, there is news from another ethics chamber - the World Anti-Doping

Agency - in the form of its 2014 report which shows positive doping tests are down by 10 per cent on

David Howman, Secretary General of the World Anti-Doping Agency, offers as a "guestimate" that, across

least be sure that Blatter will probably be leaving his office, perhaps soon, and that the level of doping

The number of positive results returned by worldwide anti-doping activity in 2014 was 10 per cent down

previous year despite an increase in tests carried out, according to figures released by the World Anti-Doping

estimates of the level of cheating varied between sports.David Howman, Director-General of the World Anti-Doping

are Germany with 9073, France with 7434, the United States with 7,167 and Italy with 6506.UK Anti-Doping

analysed 5610 samples, of which 0.7 per cent returned adverse findings.The Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission

urine sample showing a banned substance does not automatically mean the athlete in question has been doping

for Ethics in SportOctober 2015: International Athlete Forum for 2020 concludes with practical anti-doping

This year’s World Athlete of the Year award will not be open to athletes who have had serious doping

“Please note that athletes who have been previously sanctioned with a serious doping offence shall

not be eligible,” read the announcement.Gatlin, who returned to the sport in 2010 after a four-year doping

Merritt, the world and 2008 Olympic 400m champion who returned to the sport in 2011 after serving a doping

recipients were Carl Lewis and Florence Griffith-Joyner, no athlete who had served a ban for a serious doping