Russia has never positioned the Friendship Games as an alternative to other competitions, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said. Earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent a letter to the National Olympic Committees recommending that they refuse to participate in the Friendship Games. On June 22, IOC head Thomas Bach said that Russia was trying to organize "politicized sports competitions."

Earlier, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Witold Bańka, threatened consequences for participants

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is concerned over the 2024 Friendship Games taking place in Russia

Niggli said: "WADA has significant reservations about this from an anti-doping perspective.

We have no information about what kind of anti-doping program, if any, will be in place during that event

which body will be implementing such a program given RUSADA is still non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping

the Code an international event such as this should not be awarded to a country whose National Anti-Doping

This would raise concerns in terms of the reliability or the robustness of any anti-doping program that

This week, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) and Foundation Board (Board

The ExCo followed the recommendations from the CRC to allege three National Anti-Doping Organizations

(NADOs) and one Major Event Organization (MEO) as non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code

The Venezuelan NADO has not addressed a number of critical requirements to its anti-doping program following

However, the harmonization of the anti-doping system is absolutely crucial – we agree with athletes when

they tell us that all Signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code must be held to the same high standards

Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding the assertion of non-compliance with the Code on the Russian Anti-Doping

Swiss mountain runner Stéphanie Perriard, already suspended for three years for using of prohibited substances, has been given an additional six-year ban for falsification by Swiss Sport Integrity.

process, the athlete had agreed to a proposal by Swiss Sport Integrity, under Article 10.8.1 of the Anti-Doping

in her favour, misled authorities and made false statements, thus violating Article 2.5 of the Anti-Doping

Statute by participating in "falsification of any element of doping control by an athlete or any other

for instance, across all types of sports, and in all countries subject to the regulations of the Anti-Doping

Statute or the World Anti-Doping Code.

The United Kingdom Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) has confirmed that rugby league player Taylor Baddeley has

received a one-month suspension from all sports following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV), which

After serving the suspension for a positive doping test, Rugby player Taylor Baddeley is now cleared

The "Hooker" had tested positive in a doping control after the match between Castleford Tigers Academy

Committee (IPC) has imposed a four-year suspension on para-powerlifting athlete Dawid Lange for an anti-doping

rule violation (ADRV), in breach of the IPC Anti-Doping Code. .

 The athlete was provisionally suspended by the Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA) on 13 June 2019

On 30 December 2019, Dawid Lange was charged with an ADRV in accordance with the POLADA's anti-doping

;On 22 July 2020, a POLADA disciplinary panel decided that the athlete had violated the POLADA anti-doping

the athlete will be ineligible for competition and other sports activities (other than approved anti-doping

They have a responsibility to understand and comply with their obligations under the IPC Anti-Doping

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has reserved judgement in the case of Kamila Valieva, the young Russian figure skater who tested positive in late 2021 and whose case came to light during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

her positive test should have been treated with absolutenfidentiality, as required by the World Anti-Doping

grandfather was taking for a heart problem.In 2023, the Disciplinary Commission of the Russian Anti-Doping

Who was responsible for anti-doping compliance in her team and what measures were taken to prevent this

On November 17 in Montreal, members of the WADA Foundation Board, the World Anti-Doping Agency, will

are the agenda items for the meeting:An update on the non-compliance status of the Russian Anti-Doping

 Updates on the activities of the Anti-Doping Athlete Ombuds and the Human Rights Impact Assessment

 An update on the World Anti-Doping Programme consultation process.

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has claimed that the decision to exclude it from the African Games competition is "difficult to understand".

IMMAF, unlike GAMMA, is a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Agency and claims to be in "advanced talks

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has praised Beijing Sport University (BSU) for upholding the Olympic spirit as they celebrated their 70th anniversary.

degree by BSU.Swiss official Leonz Eder has been the Acting President of FISU since March 2021 due to doping

Picture gallery

of Brazil, left, who was stripped of her gold medal at the last Pan American Games due to a positive doping

Latvia has announced it will host a European Paralympic Committee (EPC) Extraordinary General Assembly next year to discuss the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) recent decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at Paris 2024.

in Manama.Russia was previously banned from Paralympics at Rio 2016 because of the state-sponsored doping

Brazil enjoyed a successful first day of judo competition at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, claiming four of the available five gold medals.

initially won the tournament at Lima 2019 but was stripped of her medal after returning a positive doping

The International Testing Agency (ITA) has launched its global Pre-Games anti-doping programme ahead

International Olympic Committee (IOC), is currently in charge of delivering independently the anti-doping

will lead such testing activities to fill potential testing gaps for all sports and nations through doping

targeted testing recommendations issued to the concerned International Federations and National Anti-Doping

Organisations (NADOs)/Regional Anti-Doping Organisations (RADOs) around the world will then be monitored

silver medals after CJ Ujah, left, tested positive for banned drugs ©Getty Images"When it comes to doping

Nigerian sprinter Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha has been banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for the presence and use of two prohibited substances - ostarine and ligandrol.

at the Athletes Village.This defence was rejected with the CGF Court finding her guilty of an anti-doping

ImagesIn July, Nwokocha agreed to enter a case resolution agreement with the AIU and the World Anti-Doping

Agency.In the agreement Nwokocha acknowledged she had committed anti-doping rule violations and agreed