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Mo Farah cleared of any wrongdoing by UK Athletics over links with coach Salazar

  • Athletics

UK Athletics has received the initial findings of the group it set up to investigate links with the Nike Oregon Project, and has announced that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by Britain's double Olympic and world 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Mo Farah or in the input to his training regime there.

Salazar - head coach at the Project and an unpaid consultant with UK Athletics - had abused anti-doping

insisting that no details will be divulged until the current formal investigation by US and UK anti-doping

“UK Athletics continues to take the issue of doping violations in sport extremely seriously and will

to cooperate with any investigation.Related storiesJuly 2015: Farah questioned by USADA lawyer amid doping

June 2015: UK Anti-Doping decision to investigate BBC Panorama allegations concerning Mo Farah coach


SportAccord and SportAccord Convention to be merged into single body

  • Olympics

SportAccord and SportAccord Convention are to be amalgamated into one organisation, Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) President Francesco Ricci Bitti revealed here today.

staff who worked under Vizer, however, only eight have been retained, of which four are working on anti-doping


Venezuelan weightlifter set to be stripped of Pan American Games gold after becoming 17th doping case

  • Toronto 2015

Venezuelan weightlifter Jesus Gonzalez Barrios has become the 17th athlete implicated in a doping scandal

originally finished in fourth place however, American-born Brazilian, Patrick Mendez has already failed a doping

and Guadalajara 2011.Related storiesJuly 2015: Chilean London 2012 Paralympic gold medallist fails doping

test at Toronto 2015July 2015: Colombian Olympic cycling medallist latest to fail doping test at Toronto

2015July 2015: Wrestling medallist among five more doping cases to emerge at Toronto 2015July 2015: 

Toronto 2015 after failed drug testsJuly 2015: Peruvian swimming silver medallist among five positive doping


Reversed route at Burghley Horse Trials could be used for up to five years, says Mark Philips

  • Equestrian

Burghley Horse Trials course designer Mark Philips has claimed the revised route for this year’s event, which will see riders run in the opposite direction to normal, could be used for the up to five years "if it works".

lifts Paget's provisional suspensionApril 2014: FEI disqualifies Paget from Burghley Horse Trials in doping

caseMarch 2014: International Equestrian Federation clarifies anti-doping cases process


Alan Hubbard: Bolt and Froome paying the price for their sport's doping sins

  • Inside the Blogs

Shortly after Chris Froome had completed his second Tour de France triumph the Sky team boss Sir Dave Brailsford declared: “This is a clean rider. We are a clean team. You can have 100 per cent faith in what we do.”

convicted drug cheat Lance Armstrong, winner of the race seven times before losing them because of doping

Of course the French have long memories, dating back to 1967 and one of the Tour’s first doping sensations

union World Cup could see the event become mired in scandal than celebrated form kits sport.UK Anti-Doping

According to UK Anti-Doping 19 boxers have failed drugs in Britain in recent years, four of them amateurs

to be caught in the drugs net here is a stark warning to all British boxers to confine any rope-a-doping




Nick Butler: Drama of Kanye West microphone drop the icing on the cake for Toronto 2015

  • Inside the Blogs

Much as we were enjoying the sport three days into the Pan American Games, we just felt it needed a story to spark it into life, something really interesting to get our journalistic juices flowing.

assault, the other blemish was the abnormally high number of 15 athletes failing or being notified of doping

failures.It will be argued that the fact so many were being caught shows the war against doping is


Governance Commission to be set up by Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee

  • PASO

The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) set-up a Governance Commission tasked with creating a Sport Governance Code, they have announced. 

and Tobago relay team officially upgraded to London 2012 Olympic silver medals following Tyson Gay doping

banJune 2015: Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee Anti-Doping in Sport Act passed into lawMay 2015


China regain 10m platform synchro crown at World Aquatics Championships

  • Aquatics

China’s Chen Aisen and Lin Yue claimed the men’s 10 metres platform synchronised diving title at the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships in Kazan to re-establish their country’s dominance in the event.

ChampionshipsJune 2015: Olympic gold medallist withdraws from Australian World Aquatics Championships team after doping

offenceApril 2015: Russian Anti-Doping Agency to collect athlete samples during Kazan 2015 World Aquatics


Farah questioned by USADA lawyer amid doping allegations against coach Salazar

  • Athletics

Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah has been questioned by the United States Anti-Doping Agency

(USADA) as part of an investigation into doping allegations surrounding his coach Alberto Salazar.

Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games on Friday (July 25), his first race in Britain since allegations of doping

June 2015: UK Anti-Doping decision to investigate BBC Panorama allegations concerning Mo Farah coach

welcomed by UK AthleticsJune 2015: Farah says he will stay with Salazar after accepting his response to doping

Mo Farah coach Salazar responds to BBC allegations in open letter, and insists "I will never permit doping



Positive doping tests declined in 2014 - but is this good news or bad news?

  • News

last year to 1,440, equivalent to four per day, according to newly-published data from the World Anti-Doping

WADA report on all tests analysed by WADA-accredited laboratories in 2014 and entered on its Anti-Doping

2014 fell by four per cent, or just over 1,000, to 22,849.Cycling is far more active in this sphere of doping

including four non-Olympic International Federations, took any ABP samples at all.Among National Anti-Doping

slumps to little more than 50 per centJune 2015: WADA President calls for improved efficiency in anti-doping

sheds light on still shadowy world of anti-dopingJune 2015: New WADA report exposes tiny number of anti-doping



Brazil win overtime thriller in handball on night of relay drama at Toronto 2015

  • Toronto 2015

Brazil held their nerve to claim a thrilling overtime victory over Argentina here tonight on a frenetic final evening of Pan American Games sporting action otherwise headlined by two incident-packed men's relays on the athletics track.

and second gold in the women's road race before Venezuela's Miguel Ubeto, returning from a two-year doping