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Former Olympic champion Popov believes Russian sports sanctions will not last long

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Alexander Popov, a four-time Olympic and six-time world swimming champion, has said he could see the Russian sports sanctions dropped soon, claiming the loss of athletes from the country - and Belarus - will hurt organisers of events.

Russian Hockey Federation banner due to sanctions by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and World Anti-Doping

Agency due to systemic anti-doping breaches - and Belarus from the ice hockey tournament had devalued


Yekaterinburg 2023 lays off all 300 staff after Games suspended

  • Yekaterinburg 2023

More than 300 people who had jobs with the 2023 Summer World University Games in Yekaterinburg have had their employment terminated after the event was suspended.

All 100 per cent of employees - my deputies, IT specialists and specialists in transport, doping, sports



Exclusive: IOC suffers sharp run-up in medical and anti-doping spend following "full reassessment" of

  • Olympics

A reassessment of the likely cost of past Olympic Games anti-doping efforts has triggered a substantial

increase in the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) reported expenditure on medical and doping control

increase.In 2013-2016, the relevant line in the accounts was labelled simply "contribution to anti-doping

2018 includes not only the specific provision for the PyeongChang 2018 doping control programme, but

Olympic Games edition aligned with the World Anti-Doping Code."

Management judgements are used to estimate the doping control programme costs."

operation has been at the heart of the long-running and deeply-damaging Russian doping crisis.


Polak stripped of Paralympic medal and banned for four years after doping breach

  • Cycling News

been stripped of his Tokyo 2020 bronze medal after being suspended for four years for breaching anti-doping

in three samples collected on May 19, July 31 and August 2 in 2021.In accordance to the World Anti-Doping

Code and the UCI Anti-Doping Regulations, the 39-year-old’s four-year suspension started on August 27


Paris 2024 boss Estanguet expresses regret over Champions League final on Sports Minister's first visit to Organising Committee

  • Paris 2024

Tony Estanguet has said Paris 2024 must learn lessons from the events of Saturday's (May 28) UEFA Champions League final as new French Minister of Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Amélie Oudéa-Castéra visited the Organising Committee headquarters for the first time.

Oudéa-Castéra is also planning a visit to the French Anti-Doping Agency, once it has completed its move


Bol shatters 300m hurdles world best at Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava

  • Athletics

Olympic 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist Femke Bol of The Netherlands shattered the world best time for the rarely-run 300m hurdles by more than a second as she clocked 36.86 seconds at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.

under home fire recently after voicing support for his fellow British sprinter C J Ujah, whose positive doping


World Skate extends partnership with ITA until 2025

  • Skateboarding

expanded its partnership with the International Testing Agency (ITA) until 2025, with the independent anti-doping

The majority of World Skate's anti-doping activities are now to be managed by the ITA, which President

Under the agreement, the ITA will implement all doping control measures during and outside of competitions

Exemptions (TUEs) in collaboration with its International TUE Committee.Results management of anti-doping

programme complies with the World Anti-Doping Code.Moreover, the creation of an education plan in line

with the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) International Standard for Education, including a webinar


UEFA commissions independent report into police violence at Paris 2024 venue

  • Football

UEFA has announced the commissioning of an independent report on "decision-making, responsibility and behaviours of all entities involved" at key Paris 2024 venue the Stade de France in the build-up to the UEFA Champions League final. 

Minister of Education, Youth and Sports from 2015 until earlier this year and a member of the World Anti-Doping


Owen Lloyd: FISE - reinventing sporting events for the people

  • Inside the Blogs

With music bouncing through the streets, artists roaming, and world class athletes at the forefront, Montpellier has come to life with the International Extreme Sports Festival (FISE) in town.

The challenges that we are facing is the new rules such as anti-doping and athlete quotas but this is


Russia and Belarus barred from 2023 IIHF World Championship

  • Ice Hockey

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation (RIHF) and Belarusian Ice Hockey Association (FHB) have criticised decisions taken at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Annual Congress in Tampere, where both countries had their participation at World Championship "frozen", meaning they will not play in the 2023 edition.

2022, the Russian Olympic Committee - the "neutral" banner under which Russia's team competed due to doping


World Rowing coaching director Postiglione ends association with Russia

  • Rowing

World Rowing coaching director Gianni Postiglione has severed ties with the Russian national team following a ban on the country's athletes from international competitions due to the war in Ukraine.

coaching director.Competing under the "neutral" Russian Olympic Committee banner at Tokyo 2020 due to anti-doping



Egypt hope for Paris 2024 all-clear after six weightlifters accept doping bans

  • Weightlifting

Egypt’s weightlifters will be hoping for leniency when a sanctions panel decides whether or not to ban their federation for a second time.

the Tokyo Olympic Games.Six Egyptians have agreed to accept retrospective two-year suspensions for doping

processing and closing the cases.The International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping

Ahmed, is among the six weightlifters who have agreed to accept retrospective two-year suspensions for doping

Under Article 12 of the IWF Anti-Doping Rules when three or more ADRVs sanctioned by the IWF are committed


IOC member Barteková among six members appointed to FIBA Safeguarding Council

  • Basketball

Six officials have been added to the International Basketball Federation's (FIBA) Safeguarding Council, including International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Danka Barteková.

appointed officials.She was also vice-chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission and a member of the World Anti-Doping