Olympic silver medallist Yana Romanova of Russia has claimed she is not guilty of doping after being provisionally suspended by the International Biathlon Union (IBU).

I am sure that all my doping samples are clean and I have nothing to hide,” Romanova told TASS.

Russian cross-country skiers Alexander Legkov and Yevgeny Belov are reportedly among those to have appealed an International Ski Federation (FIS) suspension introduced due to their apparent implication in the McLaren Report.

national ski team coach Oleg Perevozchikov has now revealed four of those supposedly involved to the TASS

Tour de Ski, but still have the chance of taking part in the World Championship," Perevozchikov told TASS

A first match should be held in April at the new Krestovsky Stadium in St Petersburg - which is due to host matches in the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup.

requirements for hosting the Confederations Cup and the World Cup," the world governing body told the TASS

Yuliya Stepanova’s former coach Vladimir Mokhnev has said he will challenge the 10 year suspension given to him by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday.

an athlete of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method.However, speaking to Russian news agency TASS

A sample given by Russian heavyweight boxer Alexander Povetkin has tested negative and “no doping has been detected”, his promoter Andrei Ryabinsky has claimed.

training periods.Povetkin remained defiant, claiming in an interview with Russia's official news agency TASS

Contrition and acceptance are in short supply in the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin at this usually high-spirited time of year.

Fasel, a former member of the IOC Executive Board and one of Russia’s closest allies, told news agency TASS

Former Winter Olympic speed skating champion Svetlana Zhurova has said she was “surprised” by the International Skating Union’s (ISU) decision to take a World Cup event away from Russia.

event at Turin in 2006 and is now deputy chairman of the Russian Duma’s International Committee, told Tass

Vladimir Putin has said state-sponsored doping never happened in Russia on the same day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened disciplinary proceedings against 28 athletes from the country whose urine samples at Sochi 2014 contained evidence of being tampered with.

When asked by Russian news agency TASS to name the 28 athletes involved, the IOC refused to do so.IOC

Russia will not be stripped of the hosting rights for the 2018 World Cup in the wake of the findings in the second part of the McLaren report, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has stated while claiming the governing body is not the "world doping police".

football," Mutko, the President of the Russian Football Union and a member of FIFA’s ruling Council, told TASS

Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin has denied deliberately doping after a world title fight was abandoned following a failed drugs test for banned muscle booster ostarine.

Povetkin told Russia's official news agency TASS after knocking-out his opponent in the sixth round."

Double Olympic champion Martin Fourcade claims calls he made for athletes to boycott International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup events if the world governing body fails to take tough action against Russian doping have been misinterpreted. 

IBU President Anders Besseberg told Russia's official news agency TASS earlier this week that it

Russia will not be stripped of the Under-18 World Championship in 2018, despite the McLaren Report, International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has promised. 

Fasel, currently visiting Moscow to attend the World Hockey Fourm, told Russia's official news agency TASS

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission chair Angela Ruggiero has said she applauds the decision of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) to strip its 2017 World Championships from Sochi.

Skeleton Federation (RBSF) President Alexander Zubkov has quelled such fears, however, by confirming to TASS

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has received the names of 31 Russian athletes implicated in the second part of the McLaren Report and a decision on possible sanctions could be made before the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen in February, according to the President of the worldwide governing body.

IBU head Anders Besseberg told Russia's official news agency TASS that he hoped the expert group

Russian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (RBSF) President Alexander Zubkov has given a "100 per cent guarantee" that the country will not boycott the 2017 World Championships after Sochi was stripped of the event by the sport’s worldwide governing body.

who clinched two and four-man bobsleigh titles at his home Games, told Russia's official news agency TASS