Having spent six years on the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Board providing insight and experiences to help mould

the development of anti-doping in sport, I want to reflect on my time with UKAD as it draws to an end

someone is cheated out of a medal by another individual using performance enhancing drugs or other doping

time on the UKAD Board I’ve been able to raise more awareness for Para-athletes when it comes to anti-doping

 I haven’t ever personally been directly impacted by another athlete doping but your podium moment

 There’s of course a lot of work still to be done to tackle doping.

will have the opportunity to ensure they are performing at the highest standard when it comes to anti-doping

Angelo Dundee, the fistic guru who helped mould Muhammad Ali into The Greatest was once asked whether the three-times world heavyweight champion had ever used drugs. "No," he replied. "He only ever gets high on himself."

athletics, cycling, both rugby codes, football, weightlifting, even tennis have far more incidents of doping

fighters.As I have written before, rarely does a week goes by without a press release from UK Anti-Doping

, about another positive test in rugby.By comparison, doping infringements in boxing are relatively rare

North Korea has won far more Olympic medals in weightlifting than any other sport but it has not entered the opening qualifying event for Paris 2024 and appears likely to miss the Olympic Games for a second time.

confirmed by the IWF today, comes at a time when the sport's governing body is tightening its anti-doping

Board agreed in principle last week to exclude countries where it is not possible to conduct free anti-doping

controls, it was a historical change of direction in our fight against doping," said Antonio Urso, general

between 2008 and 2016, and its athletes currently hold five world records.The IWF is focusing on anti-doping

Urso said member federations must take more responsibility on anti-doping."

Kenyan marathon runner Philemon Kacheran Lokedi has been banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for testosterone and its metabolites "with exogenous origin".

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.He had faced a four-year ban for his offence under World Athletics' anti-doping

sanction".The sanctions apply from July 8, the date of Kacheran's provisional suspension.The World Anti-Doping

Agency and Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya have a right to appeal against the decision to the Court of Arbitration

December.Lawrence Cherono is one of several Kenyan runners banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit for doping

Athletics-sanctioned event since 2019.Kenya is one of seven Category A nations deemed by the AIU to have the highest doping

The International Testing Agency (ITA) extended its partnership with France's Central Office for the Fight against Environmental and Public Health Damage (OCLAESP), placing a key focus on the Paris 2024 Olympics.

aiming to increase the efficiency of information exchange to assist with the dismantling of potential doping

involving French citizens.This builds on existing ties between the ITA and OCLAESP on a cycling anti-doping

programme since January 2021.Doping offences fall under OCLAESP's remit, with the central judicial police

First, it clearly shows that anti-doping efforts are only effective when they are comprehensive."

The ITA managed independent anti-doping programmes on behalf of the International Olympic Committee at

Martin Gibbs was today named as acting managing director of SportAccord following the departure of Nis Hatt.

successfully managed a period of extensive institutional change, including radical improvements in anti-doping

International Equestrian Federation's Tribunal, responsible for hearing cases involving equine and human anti-doping

Britain's Chijindu Ujah has been banned for 22 months for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)

suspended by the AIU then since Ostarine and S-23 are both substances prohibited by the World Anti-doping

Arbitration for Sport, the London 2017 World Championships gold medallist was found guilty of violating anti-doping

Athletics Integrity Unit marks another sad chapter in this case, and for sport in the UK," UK Anti-Doping

Governing Body, athlete, coach, and member of support staff should take this case as a warning that doping

Getty Images"This case underlines the need for all sports to redouble their commitment to their anti-doping

Auditors working on behalf of World Athletics have begun reviewing the implementation of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) strategic recovery plan.

will seek to assess the cultural change that has taken place in Russian athletics with regards to anti-doping

agency TASS quotes Margarita Pakhnotskaya - the former deputy general director of the Russian Anti-Doping

“The working group wants to make sure that the anti-doping culture has really changed in Russian athletics

was stripped of its membership in the International Federation in November 2015 amid a high-profile doping

Zulfiya Chinshanlo made her best total since setting a world record eight years ago as she won gold on the second day of the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Manama in Bahrain.

showed that Chinshanlo had taken steroids; she forfeited the Olympic gold medal and served a two-year doping

European champion Nell Ariano has insisted he is "really glad" to have made the switch from judo to mixed martial arts (MMA).

Association of International Sports Federations recognition.Last year, it was accepted as a World Anti-Doping

Brazilian Rafaela Silva and Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir of Mongolia ended Japan's monopoly at the World Judo Championships in Tashkent as the pair both had the crowd on their side to secure gold on the third day.

embrace.This was her first time at the World Championships since serving a two-year suspension for an anti-doping

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in what was her first appearance at the World Championships since serving a two-year suspension for doping

The final entries for the Asian Weightlifting Championships may include only one of the continent's 11 Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions but it could still be the strongest competition to date in 2022 in terms of quality.

triple world champion and Tokyo bronze medallist who forfeited a London 2012 gold medal because of a doping

Professor Richard McLaren has confirmed the integrity of the International Boxing Association (IBA)’s Extraordinary Congress, held in Armenia last month, in a letter to the governing body's secretary general George Yerolimpos.

and has been involved in high-profile sporting cases including publishing a report on state-sponsored doping

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has strengthened its commitment to rooting out dopers from the sport.

principle to exclude nations where out-of-competition testing is not possible "to support zero tolerance on doping

the need for widespread reform within the sport in July.The Board also discussed plans to expand the doping

member federations, and "address resources in intelligence and investigation".More than half of the doping

IWF delegate for Paris 2024 ©Matthew Curtain Mohamed Jalood, the IWF President, said: The IWF's anti-doping

Weightlifting’s dreadful record on doping in the past is one of the reasons why it has lost more than