By Daniel EtchellsThe Qatar Olympic Academy (QOA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with both the Hungarian Olympic Academy (HOA) and the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in order to strengthen international sporting relations and share best practices.

educational programme that utilises outstanding experts, including coaches, judges, doctors and anti-doping

By Michael PavittThe French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) hosted their first ever French Athletes' Forum, with the event in Paris being co-chaired by three-time Olympic canoe champion Tony Estanguet and gymnast Isabelle Severino.

the athletes' statutes and dual careers.Additionally, the Forum discussed medical information on anti-doping

By Mike RowbottomEddy Merckx, five-times winner of the Tour de France and acknowledged by many of cycling's cognoscenti as the most accomplished rider the world has ever known, described it as "the hardest ride I have ever done."A fortnight ago Australia's professional rider and double gold medallist at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Jack Bobridge, described it as "a bit like dying."What are these two champions talking about? Challenging for the world hour cycling record, that's what.

credibility of Sosenka's achievement was seriously undermined given that he suffered a second, career-ending doping

By Liam MorganGeneral Fernando Azevedo e Silva, head of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for Rio 2016, has quit his post just 18 months before the start of the Games.

2012 by providing "Olympic experience"January 2015: Rio in "final stretch" of constructing new anti-doping

By Nick ButlerA new website has been launched by World ParaVolley as the organisation continues its ongoing marketing and modernisation drive.

documents regarding getting started in the sport, relating to issues such as classifications and anti-doping

By Michael PavittThe 2015 World Rugby Under-20 Championships have been launched at Rome's iconic Stadio Olimpico, with Italy set to host the tournament in June.

and, crucially, they will also receive education on issues facing the game as a whole, such as anti-doping

By Michael Pavitt Prosecutors have charged the doctor accused of administering a banned substance into South Korea's Olympic gold medallist Park Tae-Hwan for negligence.

The swimmer is facing a two-year doping ban after testing positive for Nebido, an injectable testosterone

risks associated with the drug administered, and believe, that by altering his hormone level through doping

latest development in the case could have wide ranging ramifications as Article 10 of the new World Anti-Doping

If suspended for doping for for any length of time Park Tae-Hwan will be unable to compete in Rio 2016

By Michael PavittThe International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has extended a partnership agreement with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), with the collaboration now set to go beyond the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

identify how we can both work together to advance in such areas as medical, sports science and anti-doping

We are science, anti-doping, classification, and more."

Agency (WADA) over the years, and indeed my Presidency during the past 12 months, is that doping is

The very fact that this conference was even necessary demonstrates the fact that doping is no longer

By working closely with the pharmaceutical industry, we in anti doping are able to identify trends of

Sport needs Government to be able to push anti-doping to the top of the agenda.

This is something the new anti-doping rules - the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code - highlights the need for.The

news again following an interview with the BBC in which he showed a distinct lack of remorse for his doping

When asked a question about doping by Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, the American, subsequently stripped

name that since been tarnished so severely.There are some who say tennis is the next sport in which a doping

Balakhnichev is to resign as President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) following a string of doping

Sergei Kirdyapkin, Valery Borchin and Olga Kaniskina - all being banned banned by the Russian Anti-Doping

banJanuary 2015: Lawsuits to be filed against German TV station after "systematic doping" in Russian

athletics accusationJanuary 2015: Another Russian Olympic champion accused of doping - with IAAF verdict

imminentJanuary 2015: Head coach of Russian athletics team resigns amid doping crisisJanuary 2015: New

Russian Government post to be introduced to tackle doping crisis

a strategy to try to help the country's top swimmer, Olympic gold medallist Park Tae-Hwan, avoid a doping

investigation into the claim and Park is threatening legal action.Under Article 10 of the new World Anti-Doping

By Michael PavittThe Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) have announced that they are hiring for the position of a general manager of sport, based in Sydney.

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

By Mike RowbottomAs competitors and spectators gather in Colorado for the Alpine World Ski Championships which are due get underway tomorrow, Gian-Franco Kasper - President of the International Ski Federation (FIS) is looking forward to the Vonn Effect.The presence in Vail/Beaver Creek of Lindsey Vonn, who last month equalled and then broke Annemarie Moser-Proll's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup victories, will intensify the focus on a sporting event which is second only to the winter Olympics in terms of prestige.Not least because the outgoing American has come back this year from a serious knee injury which prevented her competing...

Kasper, who became an IOC member in 2000 and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency three years later

By Nick ButlerTaekwondo will make its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020, it was decided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board today, meaning a total of 22 sports will feature, but sailing and football seven-a-side will miss out.

where the sport is regularly practiced, quadrennial competition programme, athlete classification, anti-doping