Britain’s Farah defends reputation after Salazar suspension
British Olympic champion Mo Farah defended his reputation at a news conference ahead of the Chicago Marathon on Friday after being bombarded with questions about...
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WADA claims breakthrough in doping crisis
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) experts will return to the Moscow laboratory at the centre of the Russian doping scandal on Wednesday to extract testing data...
WADA urged to ban Russia over missed deadlines
The leaders of 16 national anti-doping agencies have called on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to immediately suspend Russia once again for failing to comply...
WADA denied Moscow lab data access
Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is again on the verge of suspension after a World Anti-Doping Agency inspection team visiting a Moscow laboratory was denied access...
IOC Athletes’ Commission supports WADA’s lifting of ban on RUSADA
Kirsty Coventry, chair of the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission, said on Saturday that she supported the lifting of the ban on Russia’s anti-doping agency...
IOC says Rio anti-doping programme a success despite problems
The Rio Olympics anti-doping programme was successful despite a lack of trained staff and resources, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday following a World...
Doping-‘Serious failings’ in Rio anti-doping programme: WADA
The anti-doping programme at the 2016 Rio Olympics included “some impressive advances” but was also marred by “a number of serious failings”, according to a...
Cyber hackers publish medical data for Farah, Nadal and Rose
Olympic champions Mo Farah, Rafael Nadal and Justin Rose were among athletes targeted on Monday in the latest leak of confidential medical documents that the...
Putin says WADA leaks raise a lot of questions
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) records leaked by hackers raised a lot of questions with healthy athletes seemingly taking...
WADA says hackers released another batch of athlete data
By Frank Pingue The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Wednesday that another batch of athlete data has been leaked by the same Russian cyber...
Russian hackers leak Olympic stars’ data
Confidential athlete medical data relating to last month’s Rio Olympics has been hacked and published by a Russian cyber espionage group with the threat of...
IOC ‘reluctant’ to ban Russian team from Olympics – Pound
The IOC seems reluctant to ban the entire Russian team from next month’s Olympic Games, despite mounting concern over doping violations, the co-author of the...
FIFA promises ‘appropriate steps’ over alleged Russian doping cover-up
FOOTBALL’S world ruling body FIFA has promised “appropriate steps” after a report on Monday said a dozen positive doping cases in Russian football were among...
German official wants Russian competitors excluded from Rio Olympics
The head of the German Olympic Sports Confederation on Tuesday said Russian competitors should be banned from the Rio Olympics if the findings of a...
Moscow lab protected doped Russian athletes at Sochi
With the Rio Olympics less than three weeks away, the IOC on Monday promised “the toughest sanctions available” after a report found Moscow had concealed...
Sharapova banned for two years after failed drug test
The career of Russian former world number one Maria Sharapova was in tatters on Wednesday after she was given a two-year ban by the International...
Russia anti-doping body unlikely to be cleared before Rio – WADA chief
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said on Saturday that Russia’s anti-doping authority was unlikely to be declared compliant with world sports rules before...
Doping bombshells rock WADA meeting as drug crisis deepens
WORLD sport is facing an unprecedented drug crisis as yet another in a string of doping bombshells dropped at the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) foundation...
Russia ‘running out of time for Rio’
Athletics superpower Russia is running out of time to eradicate doping and may not be able to send a track and field team to this...
Former IAAF president ‘organised conspiracy and corruption’
By Karolos Grohmann The former head of international athletics, Lamine Diack, organised “conspiracy and corruption” at the heart of the federation and sanctioned fraud and...