Global attention when an International Federation (IF) holds its World Championships is supposed to focus on the sporting action.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) and was a clear-as-day violation of the WADA Code.IBU President Anders Besseberg

Kontiolahti in Finland has been announced as host of the eighth leg of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in March after the event was moved-out of Tyumen in Russia.

doping outlined in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-commissioned McLaren Report.IBU President Anders Besseberg

Osrblie in Slovakia has been announced as the replacement host of next month’s International Biathlon Union (IBU) Junior World Championships after the Russian city of Ostrov withdrew from staging the event following the damning evidence of state-sponsored doping in the McLaren Report.

World Cup leg in Tyumen in March, after an emergency Executive Committee meeting.IBU President Anders Besseberg

Russia has withdrawn from hosting the World Junior Biathlon Championships as well as a World Cup event next year while also being stripped of a speed skating competition following the "alarming" doping revelations contained in the McLaren Report.

IBU President Anders Besseberg has welcomed the decision to strip Russia of major events ©Getty ImagesNames

to the world of sport that the current situation is taken very seriously," said IBU President Anders Besseberg

Double Olympic champion Martin Fourcade claims calls he made for athletes to boycott International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup events if the world governing body fails to take tough action against Russian doping have been misinterpreted. 

IBU President Anders Besseberg told Russia's official news agency TASS earlier this week that it

Besseberg said an IBU working group will decide on further action before putting recommendations to the

As the old British saying goes, you wait ages for a London bus and then two come along at once.

is in stark contrast to the likes of the International Biathlon Union (IBU), whose President Anders Besseberg

Besseberg told Norwegian newspaper VG there was "nothing to clarify" regarding the 2021 World Championships

After all, even Besseberg admitted it is not difficult to switch venues of competitions such as the World

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has received the names of 31 Russian athletes implicated in the second part of the McLaren Report and a decision on possible sanctions could be made before the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen in February, according to the President of the worldwide governing body.

IBU head Anders Besseberg told Russia's official news agency TASS that he hoped the expert group

all to get an assessment of the biathletes who now participate in our international competitions," Besseberg

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has been given a deadline of January 14 by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to explain the reasons why they defied the Code and awarded the 2021 World Championships to Russia.

or to events that had already been awarded to the country as their main defence.IBU President Anders Besseberg

as early as March, four months before the release of the McLaren Report in July.IBU President Anders Besseberg

 Besseberg himself sought clarification on the issue during yesterday’s meeting as he asked specifically

International Ski Federation (FIS) President Gian-Franco Kasper believes the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) should stop making political decisions and focus on playing a direct drug testing role.

criticised the decision and claimed it risks the IBU being declared non-compliant.IBU President Anders Besseberg

International Biathlon Union (IBU) President Anders Besseberg awarded the governing body’s Golden Medal

committee members to draft the governing body’s rules.Geistlinger had initially advised IBU President Besseberg

Another week has gone by, and, as is invariably the way these days, it has brought with it another set of fresh difficulties for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). More questions have been raised by Brazilian police over what exact role the organisation played in the process to award Irish ticketing contracts, while its President, Thomas Bach, has also been criticised for his, probably connected, decision to skip the Paralympics.

Remarkably, one of this latter group is Anders Besseberg, the President of the International Biathlon

On July 19 of this year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told the Winter International Federations (IFs) in no uncertain terms that events should not be held in Russia following the publication of the damning McLaren Report.

years from now - they had been given the green light to do so by the IOC and thus, according to Anders Besseberg

World Championships to Russia had undermined the credibility of the organisation.IBU President Anders Besseberg

Besseberg, who also holds a key role within WADA - whose anti-Russian stance has been obvious yet justified

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) are at risk of being declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code after they awarded their 2021 World Championships to Russia, a spokesperson for the organisation has told insidethegames.

Olympics and Paralympics as well as other major events, did not make this clear.IBU President Anders Besseberg

claiming they were just following the recommendations of the IOC Executive Board.IBU President Anders Besseberg

Newly-elected International Biathlon Union (IBU) vice-president of sport Max Cobb has accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of going back on the recommendations they made to Winter Federations concerning staging major events in Russia in the wake of the McLaren Report after Tyumen won the right to host the 2021 World Championships.

Biathlon Federation President Erlend Slokvik describing it as a "scandal" on his Facebook page.Anders Besseberg

I was hoping there might be a new issue on the agenda to tackle other than Russian doping when returning to work over the weekend following a post-Olympic break. Alas, this proved not to be the case as we were hit by a double whammy of convoluted buck-passing between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world governing bodies for two major sports.

It therefore came as a surprise to us when Norway's IBU President Anders Besseberg claimed that they