Never come back, they say. And in general - as we have very recently seen - they are right. But not every comeback has to end in a protagonist departing with his shirt-tail between his legs.

the age of 41 and volunteered for a new enhanced drug-testing programme run by the United States Anti-Doping

German swimmer, Petra Scheider, who later admitted that she had been part of her country’s institutional doping

winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France.That proud record would be entirely undone by subsequent doping

Ilia Malinin propelled himself from outside the podium positions to top of the standings with an unmatched free skating segment at Skate America, claiming the men's title in Massachusetts after opening with the quadruple axel.

68.42.The women's event coincides with the ongoing controversy over Russian skater Kamila Valieva's doping

verdict, which the Russian Anti-Doping Agency wishes to keep confidential, against the expectations

of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has disputed International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's "delusional" speech on Russia and Belarus at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly here.

"Russia has violated the Olympic Truce three times".Heraskevych also referenced the state-sponsored doping

programme in Russia, for which it is still under World Anti-Doping Agency sanctions that led to its

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has encouraged the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) to make its

she failed a drugs test before Beijing 2022 and therefore a "protected person" under the World Anti-Doping

Under the terms of the World Anti-Doping Code, there is no obligation of the results management authority

(in this case the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, RUSADA) to make public details of an anti-doping case

the whole process and there is no wonder athletes and the public do not trust the global WADA anti-doping

Because Valieva is a protected person, any punishment for an anti-doping rule violation may be less severe

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) says its verdict in the Kamila Valieva doping case will not be

at the time she failed a pre-Beijing 2022 drugs test, is a "protected person" under the World Anti-Doping

hearing dates, any charges it brings against Valieva and the final resolution.The United States Anti-Doping

Valieva, the International Skating Union (ISU), International Olympic Committee (IOC) or World Anti-Doping

the whole process and there is no wonder athletes and the public do not trust the global WADA anti-doping

filed a request to the CAS for provisional measures.The written judgement went on to criticise anti-doping

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after testing positive for roxadustat.

roxadustat, a hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) activating agent banned at all times under World Anti-Doping

Polish 400 metres runner Jakub Krzewina has been banned for 15 months for violating whereabouts rules three times in a year.

The Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA) announced the sanction, which was imposed by the Court of Arbitration

for Sport (CAS).Whereabouts information is required by anti-doping authorities so they can locate athletes

without notice to test them, and three missed tests in 12 months amounts to an anti-doping rule violation

home address because he was undergoing a rescheduled operation for an inguinal hernia, it is claimed.A doping

pacemaker who was part of Eliud Kipchoge’s team in running the marathon below two hours has been banned for doping

Justus Kimutai are the other two pacemakers who were banned earlier.According to AIU, Kipserem denied doping

performances.It is a man-made version of erythropoietin.Kenyan athletics has been severely impacted by doping

cases this year.A total of 16 athletes from the nation have been suspended for doping so far while eight

been disqualified for using the banned substance furosemide in 2012, after data from the Moscow Anti-Doping

the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, although it is also on the World Anti-Doping

decisions rendered against wrestlers Elena Vostrikova, Darya Leksina and Aleksey Shchekov for an anti-doping

Dmitry Kurbatov has been appointed as the new director general of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (RHF) and as a result leaves his post as the organisation's executive director.

International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) annual and biannual Congresses.Kurbatov has been involved with a doping

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the contribution to the Olympic Movement title to Sir Craig Reedie, the former head of the World Anti-Doping

Honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Sir Craig Reedie has encouraged the sporting world to "pick up pace" towards the next two Olympic Games after securing a prestigious prize at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Awards here.

of the International Badminton Federation between 1981 and 1984.He was President of the World Anti-Doping

Agency from 2014 until 2019, a period that coincided with the Russian doping scandal, a period he admits

The Hellenic Olympic Committee hosted the first transnational meeting for the European Olympic Committees for Dual Career (OCDC) project in Athens this month.

combining elite sport, education, and work as well as their needs and aspirations.Representatives of anti-doping

Anti-doping bodies from around the world took part in the first in-person meeting of the Sport Human

Intelligence Network (SHIN) in Warsaw as covert strategies in the fight against doping were discussed

At an event opened by the World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka, the agency’s Intelligence

Collaboration is key to any doping investigation."

SHIN originated from discussions held during a WADA Anti-Doping I&I Network meeting in 2019 and was

Agency, Japan Sports Council, National Anti-Doping Agency Austria, UK Anti-Doping and the U.S.

meeting - Anti-Doping Denmark, French Anti-Doping Agency, Korea Anti-Doping Agency, Polish Anti-Doping

player Valeri Nichushkin, who faced a four-year ban last November after news emerged of a positive doping

International Ice Hockey Federation will not initiate a disqualification of Valery Nichushkin for an anti-doping

This became possible after the results of additional studies by the Swiss Doping Laboratory."