By Liam MorganSheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum was awarded the Local Creative Sportsperson award at the prestigious Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Creative Sports Awards ceremony in Dubai tonight.

her continued contribution to enrich women's sport.Elwani is a member of the International Agency for Doping

By Michael PavittNorway's Fanny Welle-Strand Horn claimed the first International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup victory of her career, taking advantage of perfect conditions in Ruhpolding to win the women's 7.5 kilometres race ahead of Belarus' Darya Domracheva.

again at IBU Biathlon World CupJanuary 2015: World Championship biathlon medallist Sergei Sednev fails doping

By Michael PavittHamza Al Dardour became only the fourth player in Asian Cup history to score four goals in a match as Palestine's historic debut came to an end, while Japan are on the verge of the quarter-finals after a 1-0 victory over Iraq in an extraordinary match for Keisuke Honda.

seals United Arab Emirates progressJanuary 2015: Jordanian FA lodge official complaint after claiming doping

By Michael PavittNorway claimed a narrow victory over Germany in the men's biathlon World Cup relay event in Ruhpolding after Emil Hegle Svendsen caught and passed Simon Schempp in the closing stages.

again at IBU Biathlon World CupJanuary 2015: World Champion biathlon medallist Sergei Sednev fails doping

against the International Olympic Committee's (IOC), following their claim he violated the World Anti-Doping

and the silver medal on August 28, 2014 in a ceremony in Gävle, Sweden.Nicklas Bäckström's positive doping

Bäckström appealed against the IOC Disciplinary Commission decision to CAS, challenging that an anti-doping

agreed to drop his appeal against the original ruling which determined that he had committed an anti-doping

the product would not give rise to a positive sample, and that he openly disclosed the product on the doping

control form at the time of the doping control."

By Michael PavittThe fastest goal in Asian Cup history helped the United Arab Emirates advance to the quarter finals today, while a moment of magic from Sardar Azmoun enabled Iran to join them.

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesJanuary 2015: Jordanian FA lodge official complaint after claiming doping

By Paul OsborneA German court has today ruled that the case of five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein can be heard as she seeks damages against the International Skating Union (ISU).

Pechstein has been in a long-term struggle with the ISU after being issued with a two year doping ban

for an inherited condition in the expert testimony provided by Pechstein.This was the first case of doping

Claudia Pechstein has won three bronze medals at World Championships since returning from her two year doping

We were pleased to see that much in the planned anti-doping law, the arbitration will be strengthened

WADA chief voices reservations about proposed new German lawNovember 2014: Germany set to make sports doping

By Michael PavittMTN-Qhubeka will become the first African team to compete in the Tour de France, after being one of five teams awarded a wildcard for the 2015 Tour.

dopingNovember 2014: Feeder team of Tour de France winner's team provisionally suspended after third doping

By Liam MorganCzech Republic earned their second successive relay win on the opening day of the fifth round of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany.

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesJanuary 2015: World Championship biathlon medallist Sergei Sednev fails doping

Elena Lashmanova competed in an event in Russia despite the fact she is currently serving a two-year doping

Our anti-doping department is investigating but Russia was celebrating the Orthodox Christmas last week

prohibited hormones and modulators of metabolism which began in February 2014.Lashmanova was given a doping

last year's European Championships but was allowed to continue to coach athletes, despite continued doping

test - with more positives imminentJanuary 2015: Figures indicate athletics was sport with most doping

rules"July 2014: Russia to investigate race walkers' coach after doping claims by Australian Olympic

official complaint to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after they claimed a poorly conducted doping

Ahmad Hayel arrived at the hotel after the doping test [in a] semi-coma, and with hypothermia," said

The doping control room was too cold.

test was "conducted as per the AFC Anti-Doping Regulations"."

As per the procedure, the AFC Medical Officer always recommends players selected for doping control to

The assistant team doctor of Jordan national team was present during the entire doping procedure."

in Puerto VallartaToronto 2015 is to see a massive upsurge in the number of out-of-competition anti-doping

in Guadalajara - an eight-fold increase.The move is in keeping with the updated philosophy of anti-doping

cheats out.US sprinter Tyson Gay is one prominent Pan American athlete to have been implicated in a doping

scandal in recent years ©Getty ImagesDe Rose indicated that the Toronto 2015 anti-doping programme would

erythropoietin (EPO), 258 blood controls and 167 biological passport readings.The Games will use the World Anti-Doping

Montreal.Toronto 2015 is set to be the first Pan American Games to be staged under the new World Anti-Doping

International Cycling Union (UCI) and its President, Brian Cookson, for failing to do enough to combat doping

to become UCI President in 2013 promised a zero tolerance approach, with stronger measures to combat doping

in the sport.The UCI had called in their Licence Commission to review Astana's management and anti-doping

worked under at British Cycling ©Getty ImagesFollowing the decision the UCI maintained that if further doping

the Tour de France winners in 2012 and 2013, told the BBC that he wanted the UCI to be stricter on doping

caseNovember 2014: Cyclists need to be educated about doping at a younger age, claims head of CADFOctober

By Liam MorganFormer World Championship medallist Sergei Sednev has failed a doping test in another blow

Russia's Ekaterina Iourieva could have her doping ban extended as a result of the new measures ©Getty

ImagesRecently, biathlon has been rocked by a number of doping scandals, and under the new measures

Olympics in Sochi.Earlier in December, IBU vice-president Gottlieb Taschler was at the centre of a doping

scandal by vice-president November 2014: German biathlete's doping ban cut to six months after it's

found she's not to blameJuly 2014: Russian biathlete handed eight-year doping ban despite retiring in

By Liam MorganAthletics Kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat has suggested the recent doping crisis to sweep

This doping issue is just as bad as AIDS, this will be a serious elaborate exercise," he told Agence

We plan to have our own doping control officers to nab the athletes locally."

President Sir Craig Reedie, who is against jail terms for implicated athletes.The most notable recent doping

set to change and the new measures coincide with Jeptoo having to go in front of a Athletics Kenya Doping

scandal deepensNovember 2014: Exclusive: Loroupe blames foreign coaches for increase in failed doping