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British doubles player Moore provisionally suspended for failing drugs test

  • Tennis

Britain’s top-ranked women’s doubles player Tara Moore has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for failing a drugs test.

tested positive for nandrolone metabolites and boldenone, both banned substances on the World Anti-Doping

Moore is set to miss home Grand Slam Wimbledon.Moore has taken to social media to deny breach of anti-doping


ISU adds qualifying round to expanded World Figure Skating Championships from 2024-2025

  • Figure Skating

The International Skating Union (ISU) has agreed at its Congress in Phuket to expand its World Figure Skating Championships from the 2024-2025 season, facilitated by the introduction of a qualifying round for free skating.

/YouTubeRussian Olympic Committee (ROC) skater Kamila Valieva, then aged 15, was at the centre of a doping

substance trimetazidine in a sample provided on December 25.However, this was only reported by a World Anti-Doping


International Canoe Federation Board endorses inaugural virtual competition

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) Board has backed the staging of an inaugural virtual ICF competition as part of its plan to push the sport forward.

The ICF Board also accepted the decision to outsource the sport’s anti-doping programme to the International

Testing Agency as well as triple anti-doping funding from 2023.It was also agreed that athletes will


WADA President Bańka hails international help for Ukraine

  • Latest

World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Bańka has hailed the "great solidarity" of International Federations

(IFs) and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) in supporting Ukraine since the Russian invasion

the Ukraine is a travesty and a tragedy but I do see it has brought out the best in the global anti-doping

war initiated by Russia against Ukraine.WADA had called for help from other countries to assist with doping

competing internationally and it is important that we continue to support them and include them in the anti-doping

athletes.He also called upon the international sports community to keep contacts with Russian anti-doping

competing at this time but it is important that we keep an open line of communication with the Russian Anti-Doping


ITA to deliver target testing for UCI at Tour de France

  • Cycling

of Tour de France stages - on behalf of the International Cycling Union (UCI) as their fight against doping

a press conference titled "Beyond Testing: An Independent and Intelligence-Led Programme to Tackle Doping

If we're not turning around positive anti-doping rule violation, that doesn't mean doping has gone away

©Getty ImagesUCI President David Lappartient added that this change since the 1998 doping scandal at

They grew up with fighting against doping in their blood."

However we always have to be awake and fight against doping as it is something that can come back if


FEI launches education programme for 2022 Youth Equestrian Games

  • Equestrian

The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) has unveiled an education programme to be delivered at the 2022 FEI Youth Equestrian Games later this month.

sessions that will focus on crucial topics for the equestrian athletes of the future, such as anti-doping

Uniklinikum RWTH Aachen, is to discuss physical fitness.Other topics include concussion, human anti-doping

, social media, equine anti-doping and welfare, careers and athlete role models.


ISU raises age limit for senior figure skating competitions

  • Figure Skating

The International Skating Union (ISU) Congress in Phuket has accepted a proposal to raise the age limit for figure skating competitions to 16 from the 2023-2024 season and 17 from after that.

The minimum age limit had previously been 15, but the high-profile doping case of Russian Olympic Committee

historic decision".Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who was 15 at the time, was at the centre of a doping

trimetazidine in a sample provided on December 25, although this was only reported by a World Anti-Doping

her a medal.The team figure skating golds still has an asterisk alongside it, with the Russian Anti-Doping

may need reviewing, amid concerns that Valieva's status as a protected person under the World Anti-Doping



Prince Edward Island to host Canadian Junior Wheelchair Basketball Championship

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

The Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre on the University of Prince Edward Island campus in Charlottetown is set to host Canada's Junior National Wheelchair Basketball Championship from Friday (June 10) to Sunday (June 12).

have a male and female coach.The Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport has the right to perform random doping


ISU reserves right to receive RUSADA results on Valieva investigation, Congress told

  • Figure Skating

International Skating Union (ISU) has reserved the right to receive the results of the Russian Anti-Doping

The Court of Arbitration for Sport Anti-Doping Commission rejected the appeals of the ISU, as well as

the International Olympic Committee and WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) in the case of applying a provisional

can be closed or should be appealed in the interests of a fair, equitable, consistent and fair anti-doping

One case was referred to the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, because the relevant testing was carried out

As a result of the consideration of the case, it was decided that the athlete violated anti-doping rules


Nigerian Government orders all athletes to undergo drugs tests before Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

The Nigerian Government has ordered that all of the country's athletes be drugs tested before they depart for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which are due to start in Birmingham next month, in a bid to avoid a repeat of the scandal at last year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.  

Okagbare was banned from competition for 10 years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for three anti-doping

President Tonobok Okowa has also spoken of his determination to ensure there is no repeat of previous doping


RusAF Presidium nominates Zhelanov for head coach role

  • Athletics

Moscow 1980 bronze medallist Sergey Zhelanov has been nominated by the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) Presidium for the role as the country's head coach.

National Federation, which has been suspended by World Athletics since November 2015 in relation to doping

after Peter Ivanov was forced to leave the role after less than three months because of World Anti-Doping

October to establish the cultural change that has taken place in Russian athletics with regards to anti-doping


International Taekwon-Do Federation holds second largest instructors course in its history in Argentina

  • Taekwon-Do

The International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) has held its first in-person international instructors course (IIC) in South America since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the event in the Argentinian city of Pilar attended by more than 800 participants.

sport.Two organisations known as the International Taekwon-Do Federation are signatories of the World Anti-Doping