just ask the England cricket team.It was also refreshing to attend a cycling event where the words doping

By Michael Pavitt at Palácio Foz in LisbonPortugal's first female Olympic gold medallist and marathon running great Rosa Mota has been appointed as a Save the Dream ambassador, during the inaugural Inter-Regional Sports Policy Summit here. 

It's very important to promote and defend the values of fair play, ethics and the fight against doping

By Mike RowbottomThis year's Virgin London Marathon field lost and gained today as it was announced that world 5,000 and 10,000 metres record holder Kenenisa Bekele has pulled out, but that the Kenyan who once held the unofficial world best time over 26.2 miles, Geoffrey Mutai, had been signed up.

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expertly ghostwritten by David Walsh, the Sunday Times journalist credited with a key role in exposing the doping

By Liam Morgan at the Lemigo Hotel in KigaliThe Japan Sport Council (JSC) have outlined their ambitions here to help aid the development of some of the world's poorest countries as part of their Sport For Tomorrow programme.

developing countries, particularly Africa ©Tokyo 2020Sport for Tomorrow also includes a commitment to anti-doping

comprises several different strategies, such as social science research and developing a larger anti-doping

publicise Tokyo 2020 Sport For Tomorrow projectJuly 2013: Japan announces new international sports and anti-doping

and prevented from competing for 15 days from the date of a test.Explains CIRC: "It was not an anti-doping

and safety measure" ©Getty ImagesWith the development of the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP), anti-doping

I'm not at all proud of not doping."Rather, I'm ashamed for being lucky in a way others weren't."

A typical narrative from that period was of a gifted non-doping amateur, who had previously competed

Those few who rejected doping and left the sport appear to share a common factor in that they had an

By Liam Morgan at the Lemigo Hotel in KigaliA lack of suitable venues is costing the United States the chance to host major athletics events, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack warned at the Africa International Sports Convention (CISA) here today.

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By Liam Morgan at the Lemigo Hotel in KigaliEvery African country should set-up their own anti-doping

after 16 years at the helm later this year, had warned last month that athletics was embroiled in a doping

The most recent doping storm involves Russia as the country has been accused of being at the heart of

"I think one of the solutions would be for each African country to have their own anti-doping agency,

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crisis, promises CoeJanuary 2015: Jeptoo to miss Rio 2016 after receiving two-year doping ban

By Michael PavittA series of new anti-doping measures have been announced today by the International

critical of the previous UCI leadership and outlined what it considers to be key challenges facing anti-doping

the use of new designer drugs and the micro-dosing of banned substances to avoid detection by anti-doping

the recommendations of the report, the UCI have announced they intend to strengthen the Cycling Anti-Doping

effect on January 1, placing responsibility on riders and teams to report potential violations of anti-doping

measures in cycling are, whilst they will actively pursue agreements with National Anti-Doping Agencies

By Liam MorganA record 12 Ghanaian athletes from five sports have been awarded scholarships for Rio 2016, it has been announced. 

this year until August 2016, although this is dependent on the athlete complying with the World Anti-Doping

By Nick ButlerEkaterina Yurlova enjoyed a shock victory in the women's 15 kilometres individual race today at the Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti.

second Russian winner after Ekaterina Iourieva in 2008.Iourieva was subsequently awarded a two-year doping

Duncan MackayFrance has suspended European judo champion Loic Korval for 10 months after he missed three doping

Under the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Korval could have been banned for two years.Loic Korval

By Duncan MackayJane Fernandez, tournament director of the 2015 Asian Cup, has been appointed by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) as the new general manager of sport, it was announced today.

liaison role with external stakeholders, including the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Anti-Doping

confession to Oprah had, but the Cycling Independent Reform Commission's (CIRC) 227-page report into doping

fellow dopers and International Cycling Union (UCI) officials, who are also culpable in allowing the doping

does well to provide balance to the debate.Instead, there is an acknowledgement that the problem of doping

tag.Double Olympic champion Geriant Thomas labelled the estimate that 90 per cent of cyclists were doping

with night time testing, although positive ideas, seem unlikely bring about a dramatic decrease in doping

By Mike RowbottomTwo United States runners have been added to the field for this year's Boston Marathon on April 20 - double Olympian Matthew Tegenkamp and former Chicago Marathon runner-up Adriana Nelson.

Both will join the John Hancock Elite Athlete Team, which will be subject to rigorous anti-doping monitoring

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