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IJRC has a busy agenda during FEI Sport Forum

  • Equestrian

The International Jumping Riders Club is actively participating in the FEI Sport Forum in Lausanne from 29-30 April. Their objective is to seize every chance to engage with key stakeholders and ensure that the perspectives of their members are fully represented across the diverse range of topics under discussion.

championships in jumping, eventing, and para-dressage according to the FEI's bid platform.The Equine Anti-Doping


Swiss Sport Integrity Foundation reports budget overrun in "intensive" 2023

  • News

The year also saw record numbers of drug tests with Swiss Sport Integrity stepping up preventive anti-doping

X' / SWISS SPORT INTEGRITYAs part of its domestic control strategy, more doping tests were carried out

In 25 cases, the importers were subject to anti-doping rules under private law and prosecuted accordingly

Last year, the DC also issued five decisions on doping offences, resulting in five sanctions with bans

More than 6,300 people in competitive sport were reached and made aware of anti-doping issues through

For the first time, the athlete survey also prioritised doping prevention over increased testing and



USADA face WADA: Call for Chinese swimmers doping revision and investigation

  • Swimming

On Tuesday, the US Anti-Doping Agency issued a call for significant reforms within the World Anti-Doping

On Sunday, the World Anti-Doping Agency slammed United States Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart for

, WADA has acted with due diligence and according to the agreed process and rules of the World Anti-Doping

Athletes’ Commission (@TeamUSA_AC) April 22, 2024USADA made accusations to WADA regarding a "failure" anti-doping

action to ensure that real independence, oversight and accountability are created in the global anti-doping


Drug Free Sport New Zealand seeks more information on Chinese positives

  • Olympics

Drug Free Sport New Zealand (DFSNZ) notes the recent media reports and statements regarding positive tests of Chinese swimmers in the lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

"At a time when confidence in the anti-doping system is being restored, it is of great concern that these

allegations have now arisen and that they involve both a national anti-doping organisation and the World

Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) itself.

 There are questions about the actions of the Chinese National Anti-Doping Authority that need to

 New Zealand's athletes have a right to expect a strong and transparent anti-doping system that


The basic facts of the WADA - Chinese swimmers scandal

  • Swimming

The World Anti-Doping Agency has faced fierce backlash over its handling of positive test results from

broadcast last weekend, reporting that WADA had failed to police Chinese athletes, as well as their anti-doping

 What we know of the alleged doping revelations so far might seem a bit murky, but some basic facts

substance just months before Tokyo 2021, but the athletes were still allowed to compete; China's Anti-Doping

million above its annual requirements to WADA programmes both years prior to what the United States Anti-Doping

In 2014, China's three-time Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang served the first of his two doping bans after


WADA denies double standard in Chinese doping scandal, hits back at USADA

  • Swimming

wrongdoing” in the handling of the positive tests of 23 swimmers from China before Tokyo 2021, World Anti-Doping

prosecutor Ross Wenzel told reporters during the online presser.Travis Tygart, the United States Anti-Doping

Agency president, had accused WADA and the Chinese anti-doping body of having "secretly, until now,

back of clean athletes".After threatening USADA with legal action, and China’s own dismissal of the doping

also agued that an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging the Chinese anti-doping

did not after being suspended for refusing to give a blood sample to officials and tampering with a doping


The message the Olympic world needs to hear: Pay the athletes. Especially on the podium

  • Olympics

For those who don’t follow American television, one of the best shows in recent years is called Yellowstone. A spinoff, also hugely popular, is called 1923 – it features Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and purports to trace the backstory of the Dutton family in Montana roughly 100 years ago.

It’s now widely acknowledged as arguably the world’s best anti-doping entity At WA now, a five-person


Athleten Deutschland piles on Chinese doping scandal, as WADA feels the heat

  • Swimming

The NY Times and ARD were the first to report on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s alleged mishandling of

positive doping tests from Chinese swimmers before Tokyo 2021.

escape public scrutiny and continue to participate in international competition after being cleared of doping

China, who has a checkered past regarding doping allegations, stepped in by dismissing its latest scandal

They accept strict liability as a cornerstone of the anti-doping fight and they naturally accept the

“WADA's handling of the Russian state doping scandal has already led to a massive loss of trust among

is intensifying once again.”The global fight against doping is set up in a way that each country’s anti-doping


China dismisses alleged swimming doping scandal as 'fake news'

  • Olympics

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin called reports surrounding positive tests for 23 Chinese swimmers ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics "fake news and not factual" on Monday, according to AFP.

Last week, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed reports that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested

swimmers were allowed to compete in Tokyo after WADA accepted an explanation from the Chinese Anti-Doping

 I believe you will also have noted that the World Anti-Doping Agency has put out a very clear response

swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) in 2021 but did not face any punishment, the World Anti-Doping

pic.twitter.com/qOhfR73uZD— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) April 21, 2024However, the United States Anti-Doping


Global Athlete demands answers from WADA over Chinese doping case

  • News

Global Athlete, the international athlete-led pressure group, claims the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA

On Sunday, Global Athlete released a joint statement with independent anti-doping charity FairSport which

 -WADA claims that there were "no doping patterns with several athletes."

Strict liability is the backbone of the World Anti-Doping Code.

 Witold Banka, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Athletes can no longer accept band-aid solutions to a haemorrhaging anti-doping system.


WADA threatens USADA with legal action over Chinese swimmers' doping case

  • Swimming

The World Anti-Doping Agency slammed United States Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart for making "very

WADA released a statement saying, "The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is astonished by the outrageous

, completely false and defamatory statements made by the CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency

 Busy weekend for the World Anti-Doping AgencyIt continued, "In the absence of any other evidence

She was initially cleared by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) after food contamination was blamed

WADA's decision to reinstate RUSADA after a three-year ban following allegations of state-sponsored doping


Congress of the European Taekwon-Do Federation: Constitutional amendment presented

  • Taekwon-Do

The annual congress of the All Europe Taekwondo Federation AETF) was held in the prestigious Lublin Conference Centre as part of the European Taekwon-Do event in Lublin. Issues of constitutional change were discussed, as well as the selection of the next host of the 2025 European Championships.

the past 20 years, said: "The idea is to standardise the rules, especially those related to WADA and doping


Tainted gold? Report reveals China kept positive 2021 tests from surfacing

  • Swimming

Nearly half the Chinese Swimming Team was able to compete in the Tokyo Games despite previously testing positive for a banned substance, the NY Times reported on Saturday. Athletes allegedly benefited from a cover-up by local officials and lack of intervention from the international governing body.

escape public scrutiny and continue to participate in international competition after being cleared of doping

Zhang would be among them.The Asian superpower, who has a checkered past regarding doping allegations

, were allowed to compete in 2021, despite China’s acknowledgment of the positive tests by its anti-doping

2020 and early 2021 for a prescription heart drug that can enhance performance, but that local anti-doping

regulations, including the World Anti-Doping Code," it said.However, the United States Anti-Doping Agency


WADA: Official statement on the case of 23 Chinese swimmers

  • Swimming

Following some media reports this week, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has provided further information

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was quick to respond with a public note.

 "WADA was notified in June 2021 of the decision by the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) to accept

further supported by the combination of the consistently low concentrations of TMZ and the absence of a doping

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) then contacted WADA by email in April 2023 regarding the

WADA in 2020 (prior to the TMZ positives) regarding allegations (again from an unspecified source) of doping