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Renaud Lavillenie’s Paris 2024 bid not to be

  • Athletics

The star pole vaulter who smashed the 21-year-old record by the great Sergey Bubka will miss out on the 2024 Olympics on his home turf after failing to achieve the qualifying height in his final chance at the French championships on Sunday.

After being suspended for doping, appealing the decision and having been granted permission by the Court


Thiago Braz, Olympic pole vault record holder, fails to qualify for Paris 2024

  • Athlete's Websites

The Brazilian, who has been suspended for doping but is appealing the decision, had been granted permission

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the anti-doping body that suspended pole vaulter Thiago Braz, announced

 The suspension of the Rio 2016 Olympic champion was for 16 months, until November 2024, for doping


WADA announces Athlete Engagement program teams for Paris 2024

  • Olympics

The World Anti-Doping Agency made public its plan to promote clean sport directly with the athletes competing

Village of Paris 2024 to deliver the ‘One Play True Team’ campaign, which aims to raise awareness about doping-free

“WADA’s Athlete Engagement program, which raises awareness about doping-free sport, has proved beneficial

“Nearly a decade ago, I was an athlete being exposed to the anti-doping process for the first time and

can make a marked impact on an athlete’s experience at the Games and also as they navigate their anti-doping

view, speaking to athletes directly is the best way for them to share their experiences with the anti-doping


No cooperation expected from CHINADA on swimmers’ case

  • Swimming

The Chinese Anti-Doping Agency warned that it would “never” share its information regarding the athletes

After news of the doping scandal broke in April, the World Anti-Doping Agency and Chinese authorities

Such request, without any legal basis, is in violation of the World Anti-Doping Code and the legitimate

It was another example of the World Anti-Doping Agency being dragged into a much broader struggle between

Facilitated by WADA’s Africa office, this collaboration aims to improve Morocco's anti-doping capacity

Schmitt said athletes' trust in WADA had been damaged by the scandal, while the United States Anti-Doping


Amusan cleared to compete in Olympics, CAS rejects doping charges

  • Paris 2024

of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping

17 August 2023 regarding Nigerian hurdler Tobi Amusan, who was found not to have committed an anti-doping

The Nigerian athlete was initially charged with an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) under Rule 2.4 following

three alleged whereabouts violations within a 12-month period.World Athletics' anti-doping rules state

that any athlete who fails to report his or her whereabouts for doping control on three occasions within

month period will be banned from competition for two years.However, World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping

Accordingly, the CAS panel concluded that Amusan had not committed an anti-doping rule violation and



WADA reprehends US Congress for "politicised" hearing

  • Sports

icons like Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt took the stand on Tuesday and called out the World Anti-Doping

United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce after it held a hearing titled 'Examining Anti-Doping

the international agency pointed out that "relevant organizations with responsibility for the anti-doping

It was another example of the World Anti-Doping Agency being dragged into a much broader struggle between

As athletes, our faith can no longer be blindly placed in the World Anti-Doping Agency, an organization

The Chinese Anti-Doping Agency alleged that the trio of swimmers, which included two 2021 Olympic gold


ITA intelligence-led anti-doping programme for 2024 Tour de France

  • Cycling

Cycliste Internationale (UCI), will protect fair play at the Tour de France with a comprehensive anti-doping

will independently manage the clean sport programme for the Tour de France as part of cycling's anti-doping

 All doping controls at the Tour de France are targeted and can be carried out at any time during

All samples will be sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited anti-doping laboratory in

 Cycling is always fighting against doping.

anti-doping programme.


TAS overturns doping sanction against Norah Jeruto

  • Olympics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS), based in Lausanne, Switzerland, has overturned the decision of the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal regarding the Kenyan-born athlete representing Kazakhstan, Norah Jeruto.

abnormal values in two blood tests in 2020 and 2021, which the authorities considered to be evidence of doping

upholds the appealed decision, which found that Norah Jeruto did not violate World Athletics' anti-doping


Add Phelps, Schmitt to growing list of WADA critics

  • Swimming

In a US Congress hearing on Tuesday in which they questioned the World Anti-Doping Agency’s handling

US Congressional oversight and investigations subcommittee hearing in Washington.Along with US Anti-Doping

to 2017, when he last called for WADA reforms in a hearing before US lawmakers over the 2014 Russia doping

"As athletes, our faith can no longer be blindly placed in the World Anti-Doping Agency, an organization

GETTY IMAGESThe 34-year-old four-time gold medallist said while she had heard "whispers of doping by

I plead, on behalf of US athletes: hold WADA and the global anti-doping system accountable.


World Rowing stands out among its peers in latest ASOIF review

  • Rowing

World Rowing has earned a leading position amongst peer International Sports Federations in the 2023-24 review of International Federation Governance conducted by the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF). 

All its critical anti-doping functions are outsourced to an independent third-party, the International


Global Athlete's open letter to WADA on Chinese swimmers' case

  • Olympics

after testing positive for trimetazidine, Global Athlete has sent out an open letter to the World Anti-Doping

allegations made against the organisation, and instead deflecting responsibility to the Chinese Anti-Doping

restore athletes' trust & to answer the questions that have been evaded since the allegations of doping

asked the organisation to learn from the Chinese swimmers’ case to strengthen procedures in the anti-doping

Should this fail under WADA, lobbying for an alternative anti-doping system will mount.As athletes’ trust

and confidence in the anti-doping system continuously erode, the groups request that WADA address the


Paris 2024: Promising much, delivering little

  • Paris 2024

Since Paris launched its bid for the 2024 Olympics and secured it in 2017, the project has undergone numerous changes by its organisers and public administrations. From ticket prices to environmental concerns, saying is one thing, doing is quite another.

administration have already invested more than €2.4 billion in infrastructure, urban works and even the anti-doping


Sport Integrity Australia on the AFL's Illicit Drugs Policy

  • Latest

Football League (AFL) conducted 'secret' and 'off the books' drug testing of players to undermine the anti-doping

illegal drug testing regime that was detrimental to players and potentially in breach of the World Anti-Doping

number of important recommendations, but concluded that there had been no breaches of the World Anti-Doping

Code through Anti-Doping Rule Violation by AFL players or support staff, or through the feigning of

 - SIA noted that the AFL's Illicit Drugs Policy operates independently of the National Anti-Doping

 -Raising awareness of the Illicit Drugs Policy and Anti-Doping Policy.


Repeat offender Gil Roberts handed eight-year suspension by USADA

  • Athletics

eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a second time, said the US Anti-Doping

Anti-Doping Agency on Friday. pic.twitter.com/TO2ZGtKMP4— Alkass Digital (@alkass_digital) June 22, 2024Ostarine

Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, the United States Olympic Committee National Anti-Doping

Policies, and the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules, all of which have adopted the World Anti-Doping

Code (the Code) and the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List."

“Strategic testing helps to both deter doping and hold accountable those who intentionally violate the