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IMMAF President meets compatriot at MMA Polska in bid to grow mixed martial arts in Poland

  • Mixed Martial Arts

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) President Kerrith Brown has claimed Poland can possibly host an IMMAF Championship event in the near future following a meeting with MMA Polska President Martin Lewandowski during a trip to Poland.

by Kerrith Brown (@kerrithbrown)Whilst in Poland, Brown had the opportunity to meet with World Anti-Doping



IOC recommends International Federations address minimum age limits in sport

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended International Federations address minimum age limits in their sport.

Kamila Valieva at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.IOC President Thomas Bach had suggested World Anti-Doping

rules may need reviewing, with debate that Valieva’s status as a protected person under the World Anti-Doping


Kazakhstan’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic weightlifting medallist and two world champions test positive

  • Weightlifting

Six weightlifters from Kazakhstan have tested positive for banned substances, including the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games bronze medallist Igor Son and two current world champions.

the Almaty region.They came up positive in out-of-competition testing by Kazakhstan’s National Anti-Doping

at national level rather than by the International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping

, but the news is an embarrassment for the sport and especially for the WFRK, which has a very bad doping

record.The WFRK statement said: "Adhering to the policy of zero tolerance for doping, the WFRK intends

offences at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.Because of its historic doping record Kazakhstan



WADA opens registration for Annual Symposium after three-year absence

  • Latest

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that online registration is now open for its 2022 Annual

Under the theme "Raising the Game", the biggest annual gathering of the anti-doping world is scheduled

 It will focus on advancing anti-doping for the benefit of athletes across the world through a mix

cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic ©Getty Images The Symposium traditionally gathers anti-doping

professionals from International Federations, national and regional anti-doping organisations, major


Russia set to stage Summer University Games in place of FISU event

  • Universiade

Russia is planning to host its own Summer University Games with invites expected to be sent to institutions in countries it enjoys a good relationship with.

after being banned from FISU events ©Getty ImagesHe stepped aside from the role following World Anti-Doping

Agency sanctions imposed on the nation in response to the cover-up of a state-sponsored doping programme.The



Duncan Mackay: It takes a special type of character to succeed as chief executive of an Olympic Organising Committee

  • Inside the Blogs

Chief executive of an Olympic Games Organising Committee (OCOG) sounds like a glamorous job: the opportunity to be involved in the world’s biggest sporting event, VIP tickets to watch some of the most sought-after events on the planet and a healthy six-figure salary.

 Its reputation has suffered with each passing year due to the emergence of a state-sponsored doping


Anti-doping system key to AJP partnership, says JJIF President

  • Ju-jitsu

professional ju-jitsu circuit - but admitted work was still needed to implement a sophisticated anti-doping

One point that is not up for discussion is this: if we support any kind of competition we must have doping

The biggest part of our budget is to control doping."


Official dies after riot at FIFA World Cup qualifier in Abuja

  • World Cup

The death of a Zambian medical official has been announced in the aftermath of rioting at a FIFA World Cup qualifying match between Nigeria and Ghana at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in the Nigerian capital Abuja.

eliminated in front of a crowd of 60,000.Joseph Kabungo, a doctor from Zambia working as part of the doping

Getty Images"Today we mourn the passing of our medical officer Dr Joseph Kabungo who was on duty as a Doping

consequence of the post match violence.Zambia Football Federation has confirmed the passing of Caf’s doping

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


Russian biathlete Glazyrina sanctioned again for doping based on Moscow Laboratory data

  • Biathlon

Ekaterina Glazyrina has received a second sanction for an anti-doping rule violation, with the Russian

BIU) in September 2020.The case followed an investigation into information obtained by the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) into the Moscow Laboratory’s Information Management System (LIMS) database.The Anti-Doping

2013.The substances were found in the "Duchess cocktail" said to be used by Russians involved in the doping


WADA research survey finds supplements and need for rapid physical development biggest factors in doping

  • News

development has been identified by athletes as the leading factor in making individuals vulnerable to doping

This finding is among the results of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Vulnerabilities Research

personnel.Nutritional supplements were considered the most important factor in making an athlete vulnerable to doping

comes to doping.The data provided will aid organisations in the planning and implementation of anti-doping

former 800m world champion Marina Arzamasova is on the long list of athletes to have blamed an anti-doping

Canada on the study - specifically professor David Pavot, the institution's research chair on anti-doping


US teams from Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 to visit White House in May

  • PASO

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has confirmed its Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 delegations will visit the White House in early May after an invitation from United States President Joe Biden.

over integrity issues within sport, including the Valieva case highlighting the need to tighten anti-doping


Krushelnitckii to compete at Russian Championships after doping ban ends

  • Curling

Krushelnitckii will compete at the Russian Curling Championships following the conclusion of his four-year doping

their mixed doubles medals due to the positive test, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping

their place," Krushelnitckii told the Russian Curling Federation.Aleksandr Krushelnitckii's four-year doping