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Russian athletes excluded from Oregon22 World Athletics Championships

  • Athletics

Russian athletes have been banned from competing at the upcoming Oregon22 World Athletics Championships.

remains suspended.The suspension has been in place since 2015 due to widespread and state-sponsored doping

In approving these 18 applications, the [World Athletics] Doping Review Board noted that, according to

In addition, the Doping Review Board understands that individual organisers of the Continental Tour are


First outdoor World Athletics Championships in the United States on its blocks - but how far will it run?

  • The Big Read

Among the innovations at the Hayward Field venue that has been re-built to host the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships that start on Friday (July 15) is a 10-storey tower which pays tribute to five track and field legends from the neighbouring University of Oregon.

Times article alleging that Salazar, always one to push the envelope, had infringed United States Anti-Doping

he had "trafficked testosterone, infused a prohibited amount of L-carnitine and tried to tamper with doping


Standing ovation for Ukraine as World Games open in Birmingham

  • Birmingham 2022

Competitors from Ukraine have been given a standing ovation at the World Games Opening Ceremony in Alabama as host city Mayor Randall Woodfin opened the event by insisting that his city was ready to "Change the Globe".

oath included the declaration, "Together we stand in solidarity and commit ourselves to sport without doping



Alan Hubbard: Is mix and match of the sexes the future of sport?

  • Inside the Blogs

Recently I watched the televised charity match between England and the Rest of the World, featuring celebrities, sports personalities and footballers old and present day.

Come to think of it perhaps this is also a way to eradicate the lingering scourge of doping.



IJF to stage anti-doping webinars as new Olympic qualification begins

  • Judo

The International Judo Federation (IJF) is staging webinars on current anti-doping rules as the Paris

plan, in the future every active judoka, coach or team official will be required to complete an anti-doping

educational course in order to attend IJF World Judo Tour events.The IJF is running a five-week anti-doping

although dates have not been confirmed yet.The first session in the series is an introduction to anti-doping

and will give an overview of the system, rights and responsibilities, and anti-doping rule violations.Doping

talk on out-of-competition testing including requirements of testing pools and the use of the anti-doping


A look back at 41 years of The World Games

  • The Big Read

When the last World Games opened in the Polish city of Wrocław five years ago, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was present to make the official declaration.

Taiwan" and "Taiwan is not China".The event was hailed by IWGA President Froelich as the "best ever" but doping



Houdet handed doping ban at Wimbledon for whereabouts failure

  • Wheelchair Tennis

player and three-time Paralympic champion Stéphane Houdet has been handed a 15-month ban for an anti-doping

made a violation related to a whereabouts failure by the independent tribunal under the Tennis Anti-Doping

Paralympic gold with Nicolas Peifer, left, in Tokyo ©Getty ImagesHoudet was charged with missing three anti-doping


Olympic medallists Muir and Kerr lead Scottish athletics team for Birmingham 2022

  • Athletics

Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir and Olympic bronze medallist Josh Kerr lead a 33-strong athletics squad set to represent Scotland at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, starting next month.

Games hammer bronze medallist Mark Dry returns for his fourth appearance on the team, after an anti-doping


Denmark must think "smart" to push for major success, Danish cycling chief says

  • Cycling

Danish Cycling Union (DCU) President Henrik Jess Jensen admits Denmark needs to think "smart" and widen its support network to challenge big-spending nations for medals on the biggest stage.

winner in its history, although Bjarne Riis’ victory in 1996 has been tainted after he confessed to doping



Bahrain Victorious hit by another police raid on eve of Tour de France

  • Cycling

Uncertainty has been cast over Bahrain Victorious on the eve of this year’s Tour de France here after riders and staff were raided by police for the second time in a week.

linked to a preliminary investigation launched by French prosecutors at last year’s Tour de France into doping


Weightlifting drama as Italy’s Urso wins key IWF role by one vote

  • Weightlifting

Antonio Urso has defeated José Quinones by one vote in the controversial head-to-head contest for one of the most senior roles at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

Those events - centred around doping corruption and poor governance - led to a lifetime ban from the