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Russia-free World Junior Figure Skating Championships set to begin in Tallinn

  • Figure Skating

The World Junior Figure Skating Championships are due to begin in Tallinn tomorrow, following a rocky build-up which included a venue change and leading contenders from Russia being banned.

record-holder for total points and provisional Olympic team gold medallist at the centre of a major doping


Mike Rowbottom: How the elements can take the wind out of an athlete's sails

  • Inside the Blogs

Grant Holloway's decision to withdraw from Saturday (April 9) evening's USA Track & Field (USATF) Bermuda Games 110 metres hurdles due to high winds was hardly a surprise given that he had been tweeting about the conditions in the hour before the opening World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season got underway.

Canada's Ben Johnson at the previous year’s Rome World Championships, which was subsequently annulled for doping


Michael Pavitt: Are boycotts back and here to stay?

  • Inside the Blogs

Little over two months ago, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was in a buoyant mood.

Movement has resisted calls for Russia and Belarus to be excluded from events over the state-sponsored doping


World figure skating bronze medallist Liu retires at 16

  • Figure Skating

American figure skater Alysa Liu has announced her retirement from the sport aged just 16, two weeks after winning a bronze medal at the World Championships.

over the ethics of athletes so young competing in elite figure skating, especially in the wake of the doping


Holloway pulls out amid high winds at Bermuda Games but Camacho-Quinn flies

  • Athletics

Gusting winds at the USATF Bermuda Games caused world 110 metres champion Grant Holloway to pull out of what should have been his outdoor season opener after asking organisers in vain for the track to be "flipped".

of Morocco, was not selected for Tokyo as he had not run sufficient top races to establish his anti-doping


WADA publishes study to confirm Schwazer sample was not manipulated

  • Athletics

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published results of additional investigations into the case

Schwazer was banned for eight years in 2016 for a second doping offence, having previously served a three-and-a-half

but a new analysis revealed traces of steroids.A court in Bolzano last February dismissed a criminal doping

Schwazer, with the investigating judge making a series of accusations against World Athletics, the anti-doping

Federal Tribunal last year ©Getty ImagesThe organisation said it sought the opinion of international anti-doping

of a World Race Walking Team Championships title won in Rome in 2016 as a result of the second anti-doping


Kerrith Brown: New year starts with bang as IMMAF competition calendar fills out

  • Inside the Blogs

Fresh off the back of receiving World Anti-Doping Code signatory status at the close of 2021, we were

We were proud too that our anti-doping testing returned no positive results, a true testament to the

This covers rules and regulations, officiating, medical and anti-doping.

first federation to meet the exceptionally high good governance requirements of the new World Anti-Doping



WADA calls on world to "Play True for Peace"

  • News

The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has marked the eighth edition of Play True Day, with President Witold

clean sport and raise awareness among athletes and the wider public of the importance of preventing doping

organisations take part worldwide.Today join us in marking #PlayTrueforPeace in solidarity with the global anti-doping



Bulgaria replace Russia in women's VNL as Sofia and Gdańsk given matches

  • Volleyball

Sofia and Gdańsk have been selected to stage Volleyball National League (VNL) matches moved from Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, while Bulgaria's women's national team have been added to the competition.

claimed it would be "legally and practically impossible" to strip Russia of the event as World Anti-Doping


Russia seeking $80 million compensation over losing Volleyball Men's World Championship

  • Volleyball

The All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) has demanded compensation reportedly amounting to $80 million (£61.1 million/€73.4 million) after being stripped of the right to host the Volleyball Men's World Championship.

been under threat of losing the tournament when the CAS rendered its decision on Russia's long-running doping

scandal in December 2020.Under the terms of the sanctions imposed on Russia by the World Anti-Doping


Guyana

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Guyana can trace its Commonwealth Games history right back to the inaugural edition in Hamilton in 1930.

 In 2009 she became a doping control officer and she is a member country representative for Guyana

at the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization, where she sits on the Executive Committee.After


Nigeria denies claims of stadium ban after crowd trouble at FIFA World Cup playoff

  • Football

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has denied the Abiola National Stadium has been banned from hosting matches, after crowd trouble following the nation’s failure to qualify for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Joseph Kabungo, a doctor from Zambia working as part of the doping control team, died after the match.Local

gasping for breath near the dressing room of the Ghanaian team" as he was waiting to take a player for doping