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Exclusive: Ferriani targets restoring credibility to sport when he becomes IOC member

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) President Ivo Ferriani hopes he can help restore credibility to sport in the wake of a series of corruption and doping scandals when he becomes a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

President Gianni Infantino and International Association of Athletics Federations counterpart Sebastian Coe



Davies and wife among three IAAF officials suspended over alleged breaches of Code of Ethics

  • Athletics

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) chief of staff Nick Davies is one of three officials to be provisionally suspended from the organisation pending investigations into potential breaches of the governing body’s Code of Ethics.

reportedly suggested hiring CSM, the sports marketing firm chaired by current IAAF President Sebastian Coe



members headed by Colombian banker, South African film producer and Indian businesswoman as Infantino and Coe

  • Olympics

Colombia's Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank, South African film producer Anant Singh and Indian business leader Nita Ambani are among eight new names who has been proposed for membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here today.

There are no places, however, for Gianni Infantino and Sebastian Coe, the newly-elected Presidents

the retirements of Sepp Blatter and Lamine Diack, who had both previously been members.Infantino and Coe


Alan Hubbard: The curious air of indifference surrounding Rio 2016

  • Inside the Blogs

I had a call last week on behalf of the Organising Committee of the Rio Olympics as, I imagine, did some of my colleagues.

Olympics.Also, as far as Great Britain is concerned, inevitably there is a sense of anti-climax after the Lord Coe



Nick Butler: Russian athletics ban must remain for Rio 2016 if sport is really serious about ending doping

  • Inside the Blogs

This week’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting in Lausanne promises to be the most significant not just of Thomas Bach’s tenure, but perhaps ever since the fateful 1998 affair at which former International Ski Federation President Marc Hodler first alerted the world to the simmering Salt Lake City corruption scandal.  

clearly have a key role to play and will be heavily involved in “suggesting” a solution to Sebastian Coe

potential athletics ban from Rio 2016 is still the biggest issue for the likes of IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Coe was correct to dispute this claim yesterday by pointing out that if you could re-test samples from



Spanish hurdler Onyia reportedly latest implicated in retested Beijing 2008 doping samples

  • Athletics

Spanish hurdler Josephine Onyia is reportedly the 15th named athlete to have tested positive after re-analysis of Beijing 2008 doping samples as she becomes implicated in the fifth drugs scandal of her career.

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) confirmed in a statement this afternoon that they were notified by

latest actions taken by the International Olympic Committee in favour of a clean sport," added the COE




Nigeria’s double Commonwealth champion says Rabat’s African Diamond League debut can help “connect the world”

  • Athletics

Nigeria’s Commonwealth 100 and 200 metres champion Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor has said that this weekend's International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Rabat - the first to be held on the continent - can have worldwide benefits.

this month, has welcomed the IAAF Diamond League's debut in Africa this weekend ©Getty ImagesSebastian Coe


Exclusive: EOC will be guided by International Olympic Committee over whether Russia should host 2019 European Games

  • Minsk 2019

A decision on whether or not Russia will be awarded the 2019 European Games will be guided by whatever decision the International Olympic Committee (IOC) take following claims that the country were involved in systematic doping at Sochi 2014.

Committee, which includes Britain's International Association of Athletics Federations President Sebastian Coe


Alan Hubbard: What is the world going to do about Russia?

  • Inside the Blogs

Russia’s doping scandals are rather like those traditional wooden dolls tourists bring back home after visiting that country. Open up one and another is revealed. And so on.

But personally I hope that Lord Coe and the IAAF have the cojones to teach Russia a long-overdue lesson