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Russia paid part of 2023 dues to WADA

  • Olympics

of its 2023 contribution from Russia, the global anti-doping organisation told Russian news agency TASS

From January to April 2024, RUSADA tested 59 skaters for doping, TASS reported.


Russia will not send judokas to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Russia will not be sending any competitors to the Paris Olympics after only four of its seventeen judokas were given permission to compete by the International Olympic Committee.

Summer Olympics will not go to Paris, President of the Russian Judo Federation Sergey Soloveichik told TASS


Russian cyclist Alexander Vlasov refuses to take part in the Olympic Games

  • Cycling

The cyclist is one of fourteen athletes approved by the IOC to compete under a neutral flag in Paris 2024. He has decided not to take part because of a "very busy schedule". More than half of the approved athletes are wrestlers, with the rest taking part in trampoline gymnastics and road cycling.

course does not suit him," Russian Cycling Federation president Vyacheslav Ekimov told state news agency TASS


IOC releases first neutrals list with 25 Russian and Belarusian athletes

  • Summer Olympics

With an ample majority of wrestlers and the stellar presence of road cyclist Aleksandr Vlasov and Olympic trampoline champion Ivan Litvinovich among the featured admissions for the Paris 2024 Games, the International Olympic Committee also included taekwondo as whole, albeit with no specific names.

'test'," Vyacheslav Ekimov, the President of the Russian Cycling Federation told Russia's state-run TASS

Ekimov said.The President of the Russian Trampolining Federation, Nikolai Makarov told TASS he was not


Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova granted neutral individual athlete status

  • Paris 2024

Yuliya Efimova on Friday became the first Russian swimmer to be granted neutral status for the Paris Olympics - but said she might struggle to reach the qualifying standard.

7th-placed medley relay.Russian Swimming Federation president Vladimir Salnikov told state news agency TASS


US Senators latest to push for WADA explainer on doping scandal

  • Sports

Like a constant drizzle, criticism and demands for clarification keep pouring over the World Anti-Doping agency s handling of the 23 positive tests from China’s 2021 swimming team. American politicians have now united in their ask for answers from the global watchdog, the Associated Press reports.

Americans always fail to realise that they are privileged", the 33-year-old athlete told TASS in an information


Shubenkov calls US position in the anti-doping system "privileged"

  • Athletics

Just two months before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, the controversy surrounding the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its handling of certain cases, notably that of the 23 Chinese swimmers allowed to compete at Beijing 2020, is growing.

ADAMS (Doping Control System), which is used in the rest of the world," the 33-year-old athlete told TASS


French Interior Ministry fails to respond to banned Russian Olympics volunteers

  • Paris 2024

Russian volunteers who were barred from working at the Olympic Games in Paris, Russian news agency TASS

Previously, TASS reported that French authorities denied accreditation applications for the Olympic Games

which was delivered to the ministry by Russian volunteers living in this country," a volunteer told TASS


Biathlon champion Vasilyev: "Bach would run naked through Paris" to save Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Double Olympic biathlon gold medallist Dmitry Vasilyev has accused International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach of resorting to desperate measures ahead of Paris 2024, claiming that the Games may not even take place.

Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to be cancelled for its "hypocrisy" concerning sanctions against Russia, telling TASS



Russia outboxes Serbia, amasses gold in EUBC Championships

  • Boxing

Just about everything came out golden for Russia in the European Amateur Boxing Championships. Fans did have to sing along the winner’s anthem because of an alleged technical error, but that was it for its boxers in Belgrade, where they took 11 wins from the host country, who totalled only four.

General of the Russian Boxing Federation, Tatyana Kiriyenko had previously explained to the agency TASS


Veronika Loginova: WADA's arguments unfounded

  • Olympics

complex geopolitical conditions is "unfounded", RUSADA Director General Veronika Loginova told the TASS

Veronika Loginova was interviewed by the TASS news agency to explain the situation of the Russian Anti-Doping


Macron calls for ceasefire with Russia during Paris Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Russia will be asked for a ceasefire during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will take place from 26 July to 11 August, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday "the request for a ceasefire during the Olympic Games. They (the Russians) have to do it. That's what has always happened." 

2024Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on France to stop supplying arms to Ukraine, TASS


Athletes who respect IOC conditions 'welcome' in Paris, says Bach

  • Paris 2024

Athletes who respect IOC conditions 'welcome' in Paris, says Bach. Asked about the case of Russian athletes, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Saturday that all athletes "willing to respect the conditions" set by the International Olympic Committee would be "welcome" at the Paris Olympics.

meeting on Wednesday, referring to the upcoming European Summer Olympics, according to state news agency Tass