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Putin suggests SCO could organise "major sporting events"

  • Olympics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) should create "an association of sports organisations" and stage "major sporting events" under its auspices, amid the country's ongoing exile from international sport.

Olympics by the Chinese head of state.He would otherwise have been unable to attend the Games due to doping-related



Dahlin re-elected International Biathlon Union President

  • Biathlon

Sweden's Olle Dahlin is set to lead the International Biathlon Union (IBU) for another four-year term after being re-elected as President during the governing body's Congress in Salzburg.

Scandinavian was first elected IBU President in 2018, replacing Norwegian Anders Besseberg who resigned amid a doping


Philip Barker: Seventy years of highs and lows in sport

  • Inside the Blogs

It was somehow fitting that England's cricketers should win the decisive match in the Test series against South Africa at the Oval in London earlier this week.

The claims were often repeated although it now seems they were incorrect.Yet doping did indeed become

problem in sport in the years that followed, to the extent in the new millennium, a worldwide anti-doping

transcended sport as he became one of the best-known faces in the world ©Getty Images.That such an anti-doping


Norway NOC and ADNO reach "temporary solution" on young athlete doping consent rules

  • EOC

The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) and Anti-Doping Norway

ADNO had feared it would be declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), following

outcome reached that young elite athletes must have received consent from their guardians to undergo doping

From now on, minor top athletes must have the consent of their guardians for doping testing before they

The temporary solution will ensure that our national anti-doping agency continues to act in accordance

with WADA's anti-doping regulations," she said."



IFAF Board meets online for first time since July elections

  • American Football

Continental representatives from Argentina, Austria, Kenya, South Korea and New Zealand were welcomed at the International Federation of American Football's (IFAF) first Board meeting following the election of new members at its Congress in July.

excellence across each area of our day-to-day work: development, commercial, athlete welfare, anti-doping

meeting by paying tribute to Alessia Di Gianfrancesco, who has played a key role in shaping IFAF's anti-doping

programmes and is now stepping down to focus on her role as director general of the Italian National Anti-Doping


Georgian shot put record-holder Abramyan given seven-year doping ban

  • Athletics

Georgian shot putter Benik Abramyan has been banned for seven years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after failing a drugs test at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

his provisional suspension.Abramyan faced an eight-year period of ineligibility as this is his second doping

seven because of early admission and acceptance of the sanction.Benik Abramyan admitted a second anti-doping

in a sample given by Abramyan on August 11 2011 which resulted in a ban of two years.The World Anti-Doping

Agency and the Georgia Anti-Doping Agency have the right to appeal against the AIU decision at the Court


Vimal Sankar: TikTok on the clock with role to play in IOC youth drive

  • Inside the Blogs

Horniness inside the Olympic Village has been an open secret for many years. From the hundreds of right-swipes on Tinder at the infamous Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics to the record-breaking 450,000 condoms distributed at the Rio 2016 Summer Games, there have been plenty of stories to support the rumours of debauchery.

answer.How long until pressing issues such as the war in Ukraine, carbon footprints, mental health, doping


Pakistan Olympic Association backs weightlifting leaders in dispute over "biased" ban

  • Weightlifting

which found "serious irregularities in its functioning, corrupt practices and violation of the anti-doping

Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has said that the PWLF faces a loss of funding and is aware of the doping-related

procedures for the IWF, was acting on intelligence jointly with the World Anti-Doping Agency when it

to be the last major weightlifting title for the nation for some time.Any nation with three or more doping

Hafeez Imran Butt, centre in white, previously claimed weightlifters had only refused to give anti-doping

it was "allegedly involved in serious irregularities in its functioning, corrupt practices and anti-doping


Flückiger protests innocence amid provisional suspension and doping investigation

  • Cycling

Olympic silver medallist Mathias Flückiger has protested his innocence three weeks after being provisionally suspended over testing positive for zeranol.

Integrity Foundation confirmed last month that Flückiger was being investigated "for a potential anti-doping

sample was 0.3 nanograms per millilitre, a figure that is below the 5ng/mL threshold the World Anti-Doping

Foundation, denied Flückiger's allegations, speaking to SRF.Flückiger has also said he returned two negative doping

used as a veterinary drug as it can promote livestock growth, is banned at all times by the World Anti-Doping



UK Anti-Doping publishes second-quarter testing figures in build-up to major events

  • Latest

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has published its second-quarter report, detailing testing figures prior to a summer

tests were conducted by UKAD, compared to 2,541 from the previous three months; from its team of 180 doping

 "It's thanks to our hard-working doping control personnel across the UK that we've been able to

followed with 199, rugby league with 159, cricket with 148 and swimming with 123.There were four anti-doping


IMMAF holds online discussion on transgender policy

  • Mixed Martial Arts

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) held an online event to discuss transgender athletes in the sport.

compete in male categories, although this would require a therapeutic use exemption from the World Anti-Doping