The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has extended its partnership with the International Federation of Sport Medicine (FIMS) for a further five-and-a-half-years.

years FIMS has worked closely with the IPC, assisting in areas such as medical, sports science, anti-doping

There was a mad idea at insidethegames at the weekend to set our alarms for 4am and find somewhere to watch the Floyd Mayweather Jnr-Manny Pacquiao fight before travelling on to the office for a day of work. Considering a distinct lack of sleep the night before, I’m not sure how this would have ended and, with the plan eventually abandoned due to a total lack of places in the area showing the fight, I don’t feel I missed too much.

calculating the most efficient way to maximise energy and talent, particularly in an era in which decreased doping

The second instalment of the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Proud Paralympian programme has been staged in Mexico City during the 2015 IPC Powerlifting Open Americas Championships.

to Doping initiative, held in collaboration with the World Anti-Doping Agency.The programme, supported

Usain Bolt suffered the unfamiliar feeling of defeat at the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) World Relays in Nassau as a United States 4x100 metres team boosted by an inspired second leg from the controversial figure of Justin Gatlin won the event in 37.38 seconds, beating the Championship record set by Jamaica in last year’s inaugural running.

Gatlin, whose recent award of a new contract from Nike despite having incurred two doping suspensions

himself and the rest of the field.Tyson Gay - also a controversial figure having had his two-year doping

ban of 2013 reduced by half following “significant assistance” to US anti-doping authorities - consolidated

International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson believes criminalising doping is a "good idea

Independent Reform Commission Report in March, including the targeting of "entourages facilitating doping

s almost worse than other forms of crime in a way, which sounds crazy, but if people think there’s doping

If Cookson's idea was realised, doping cheats like Lance Armstrong could be subject to jail terms ©Getty

admitting that cycling has faced mammoth doping problems in recent years, Cookson also differentiated

measures following CIRC reportMarch 2015: Michael Pavitt: Report on doping in cycling lacks drama of

Jamaican world 100 and 200m record holder ends up running head-to-head with the man who has served two doping

In a year where Bolt was absent in 2014, the former Olympic champion, who returned from a second doping

believes teams need to be stricter in their sanctions against drug cheats in order to tackle the blood doping

Women’s Tour, the Barcelona 1992 Olympic individual pursuit winner said the risks associated with doping

nothing to stop teams putting clauses in their contracts categorically stating that anyone who is caught doping

year ©Getty ImagesLast month, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced a series of new anti-doping

the use of new designer drugs and the micro-dosing of banned substances to avoid detection by anti-doping

measures following CIRC reportMarch 2015: Michael Pavitt: Report on doping in cycling lacks drama of

The athletics world is limbering up for an event which brought a new dimension to the sport last year, and which promises to create another colourful splash of entertainment and excitement over the weekend.We are talking, clearly, about the World Relays, the format which so amply rewarded the International Association of Athletics Federations for creating it as a main season-opener to their calendar last year.

the 200m.Nine years later that silver turned to gold following Jones’s belated disqualification for doping

Nine years later the Bahamian athlete was awarded the gold in the wake of the American's doping punishment

Fiji hosted a series of Oceania National Olympic Committee (ONOC) workshops and meetings ahead of the regional sporting governing body’s General Assembly.

We talked a lot about the medical side of things, especially doping control and testing of athletes

British sprinting star Adam Gemili admits he is “saddened” when people associate athletics with doping

sadden me that when people think about athletics, one of the first words that comes into their minds is doping

storesApril 2015: Athletics Kenya suspends Italian and Dutch agencies pending investigations into doping

casesMay 2014: Exclusive: Kenyan Olympic champions say Tyson Gay's doping ban reduction sends "

Last month, the global anti-doping community congregated in Lausanne, Switzerland - a city seen by many

sporting world - for the largest annual gathering of clean sport representatives: the World Anti-Doping

Agency’s (WADA’s) Anti-Doping Organisation (ADO) Symposium.

the doping substance itself - points to a more intelligent anti-doping direction in which the trends

problems with the establishment of a Task Force comprising Anti-Doping Norway, the Chinese Anti-Doping

Anti-Doping Commission.

anti-doping organisations that WADA is forming.

The lengths the doping athlete will go to to achieve success keep WADA, and its partners in anti-doping

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) will collect samples from athletes at the 2015 World Aquatics

Under the supervision of FINA’s Doping Control Commission, appointed for the Championship, samples

will be analysed in the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) accredited laboratory of Moscow.The decision

was agreed upon at a meeting attended by Professor Andrew Pipe, chairman of the FINA Doping Control

implicated in scandals, with a German TV documentary last year alleging RUSADA complicity in a "systematic" doping

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced Astana Pro Team will retain its World Tour licence but also warned proceedings will be reopened if new issues arise.

independent Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne (ISSUL) audit of the team’s anti-doping

Licence Commission in December and the reality on the ground”.Several Astana riders were also involved in doping

licenceNovember 2014: Feeder squad of Tour de France winner's team provisionally suspended after third doping

SportAccord President Marius Vizer has taken a stab at Lamine Diack, his International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) counterpart, in the wake of his sport's decision to resign from the organisation earlier this week.

an IAAF marketing consultant in December, pending investigations into an alleged institutionalised doping

France have been stripped of their 2016 Olympic Games qualification spot in eventing by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Tribunal after Maxime Livio’s horse Qalao des Mers tested positive for a banned substance at last year's World Equestrian Games.

next year through other avenues ©Getty ImagesThey were found to be in breach of the FEI’s Equine Anti-Doping