FIFA's Ethics Committee has recommended current President Sepp Blatter be suspended for 90 days, according to a long-term adviser of the Swiss Klaus Stöhlker.

comments come after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped the Swiss from the World Anti-Doping

Sebastian Coe, in India as part of his first official visit to a member country since assuming the Presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) last month, has backed the idea of an athletics league in the style of cricket's Indian Premier League (IPL) where athletes such as Usain Bolt and David Rudisha could represent some of the world's major cities.

staffSeptember 2015: IAAF President Coe set to be called to speak at British Parliamentary Committee hearing on doping

Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has held a two-day conference alongside the World Anti-Doping

Agency aimed at improving education and developing further initiatives to help combat doping in sport

The event in Ottawa was attended by representatives from 61 National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs

of resolutions were proposed following the conference, including that all NADOs and Regional Anti-Doping

All parties involved must look at dedicating more human and financial resources to values-based anti-doping

programmes, with more co-operation between researchers and Anti-Doping Organisations required in future

“Effective education has the power to prevent doping and, in so doing, effect positive change on society

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) will submit a bid to have Para-bobsleigh and Para-skeleton included on the Winter Paralympic Games Programme at Beijing 2022, insidethegames has been told.

that they must have a quadrennial competition programme, as well as athlete classification, an anti-doping

President Svein Arne Hansen’s new vision for European Athletics (EA) has been sharpened by the creation of the EA Strategic Communications Commission, which has had its first meeting in Velenje, Slovenia.

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

figure skating medallist Carolina Kostner has had her 16-month suspension for being complicit in the doping

January 1 after settling a dispute with the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) and World Anti-Doping

, the bronze medallist in the singles at Sochi 2014, had agreed to a request from the National Anti-Doping

former boyfriend and Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer but denied any involvement in his doping

©Getty ImagesAnti-doping prosecutors had originally called for a four-year ban which would have ruled

have her ban annulled to CAS at the same time CONI launched a conflicting appeal.After the failed doping

Merging SportAccord with the SportAccord Convention will be the leading item on the agenda at the body's Extraordinary General Assembly in Lausanne next month, insidethegames has learned.

speculated how the new body could still play other limited roles, including some sort of anti-doping

China’s Liao Hui enthralled his home crowd at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Grand Prix event in the city of Fuzhou as the Beijing 2008 Olympic champion attempted to break the men’s under 77 kilogram total world record, as well as setting a new clean and jerk mark.

comfortable victory.The 27-year-old, who missed the London 2012 Olympics due to receiving a one-year doping

Meseret Mengistu Biru, the winner of the Paris Marathon in April, will head a strong Ethiopian women’s quartet at this month’s Frankfurt Marathon.

Festhalle" or Festival Hall.Related storiesOctober 2012: Makau wins Frankfurt Marathon after dismissing doping

Since the 1970s with the introduction of the first reliable drug test and full-scale testing of athletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich, identifying dopers and imposing sanctions has evolved from traditional urine and blood tests to include proactive investigative techniques.

anti-doping organisations to apply sanctions in cases where there is no positive doping sample, yet

where there is still evidence that a doping violation has occurred.

Code is a clean athlete’s weapon against doping, providing clear information on how to adhere to anti-doping

– showing that the net is closing in on doping cheats.

The revised World Anti-Doping Code rules require Anti-Doping Organisations around the world to work

A total of 656 doping controls were carried out during this year’s Tour de France, of which 482 were

Dr Francesca Rossi, Director of the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation, said: “In addition, we strengthened

“Once again, the collaboration with the French Anti-Doping Agency (Agence Française de Lutte contre

highlight once again the excellent climate in which all the stakeholders involved in the fight against doping

“Thanks to the sharing of information between all anti-doping actors and a strategy focused on ever more

investigation – third.The UCI, the CADF and the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) have agreed to keep

Members of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee have participated in a number of discussions

co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Anti-Doping

“The values in sport are very important, playing true, saying no to doping is a major part of it.

“Anti-doping education is best to start when athletes are young, so that they are aware of threats in

©Tokyo 2020Play True 2020, which is now under the management of JADA, aims to build stronger anti-doping

in SportAugust 2015: WADA concedes it has no power to ban nations from competitions for doping

Athletics Kenya has suspended Josephine Jepkoech Jepkorir and Agatha Jeruto Kimaswai for two and four years respectively after they tested positive for the banned anabolic agent norandrosterone.

Championships in Beijing for similar offences.Road runner Jepkorir has been sanctioned for failing a doping

Kimaswai, an 800m athlete, has been sanctioned for failing a doping test during an out of competition

The Sunday Times.Related storiesAugust 2015: Two female Kenyans suspended in Beijing after positive doping

casesMarch 2015: Every African country should have own anti-doping agency, claims DiackFebruary 2015

: IAAF's Kenya laboratory ready soon as new World Marathon Majors deal to boost anti-doping efforts launched

Uruguayan endurance rider Fernanda Villar has been hit with a provisional suspension by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) after horse LG Muneerah tested positive for a banned substance during a CEI2* event in August.

champion Steve Guerdat and teammate Alessandra Bichsel being cleared of any wrongdoing by the FEI after doping

punishment.Related storiesSeptember 2015: Reigning Olympic champion Guerdat cleared of wrongdoing after horses fail doping

Tribunal provisionally lifts Swiss showjumpers' suspensions after preliminary hearings over failed doping

testsJuly 2015: Olympic showjumping champion provisionally banned after two horses return failed doping

Sportswear giants Nike have been forced to hand over communications with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong by United States District Judge Marco Hernandez as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit against the former Tour de France winner.

Federal Government profited from it and that the U.S Postal Service should have had knowledge of his doping

Postal Service should have known that he was doping because of allegations, because of publicly available

communications between Nike and Armstrong in order to decipher whether the cyclist might have discussed doping

financial information, which would show how they benefitted from sponsoring Armstrong despite his doping

Postal Service was like “comparing an apple to a kumquat”.Armstrong repeatedly denied accusations of doping