North Korea has pulled out of the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou as the country's flag was set to be banned at the event in the Chinese city.

The secretive state has been declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which triggers

North Korea's anti-doping agency was declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code in October

programme.As revealed by insidethegames, the country has agreed to open up to foreign visitors from anti-doping

Korea's flag at the Asian Games ©Getty ImagesPreviously, no testers had been allowed in to carry out doping

The Gambia's Beatrice Allen, Britain's Sir Craig Reedie, North Korea's Chang Ung and Poland's Andrzej Kraśnicki all received the Olympic Order on the final day of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session here.

playing a key role in London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, and was World Anti-Doping

Dear Craig, as the third President of the World Anti-Doping Agency, you had to go through some of the

Kenyan runner Titus Ekiru - who clocked the joint sixth fastest marathon of all time - has been banned for 10 years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after a case which exposed collusion with a high-ranking doctor.

banned substance in July of this year.He also faced two counts of tampering or attempted tampering with doping

The outcome in this case is testimony to the collaboration between the AIU and Anti-Doping Agency of

Government officials are now working alongside ADAK and the AIU to uncover doping in Kenyan athletics

 "For athletes involved in doping and the entourage who assist them, there is one strong message

win the half marathon at the continental event.A number of athletes in Kenya have fallen foul of the doping

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has credited governance reforms under President Mohammed Jalood for salvaging the sport's Olympic berth at Los Angeles 2028 here.

Olympics since Antwerp 1920, but was left off the initial programme for Los Angeles 2028 because of doping

Board yesterday approved its place at the Games in five years' time because the IWF delegated anti-doping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) plans to send the case against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA

Sanctions against RUSADA for the Russian state-sponsored doping scandal, which had required the country's

after the CAS had halved the penalties to two years.RUSADA remained non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping

reinstated until all required conditions are met.North Korea and Gabon are the other National Anti-Doping

Organisations deemed non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code, along with the International Fitness

Panam Sports has been staved off the threat of being declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping

National Olympic Committees, faced the embarrassment of being declared non-complaint by the World Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) last month for failing to make "critical corrective actions" to its anti-doping programme.The

 It leaves the National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) of North Korea, Russia and Gabon, along

the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation, as non-compliant signatories of the World Anti-Doping

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has revealed here the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) questioned the timing of its suspension and why it was not done after recognising a Crimean entity.

ImagesThe ROC was last suspended from December 2017 until February 2018 because of the state-sponsored doping

The leaders of seven National Olympic Committee's (NOC) from across Oceania took part in a recent forum designed to foster knowledge-sharing in the region.

, athletes and national federations with many commissions not to mention equity, education and anti-doping

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has approved the five additional sports proposed by the Organising Committee for the Los Angeles 2028 programme here, but boxing is once again facing an uncertain future.

Weightlifting was left off the initial programme at Los Angeles 2028 following doping and corruption

but was approved for inclusion due to the International Weightlifting Federation's delegation of anti-doping

Double world champion Francisco Mosquera, who competed in this year's International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in September, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the steroid boldenone.

announcement published on Thursday by the International Testing Agency (ITA), which carries out all anti-doping

other parts of Latin America.Colombia has not had any weightlifters suspended for any other specified doping

following a ground-breaking investigation under the newly established United States Rodchenkov Anti-Doping

Grigory Rodchenkov, the Russian scientist who was obliged to become a whistleblower on the state-run doping

women’s 100m semi-finals at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, received an accumulated 11-year ban for doping

2020 Games but reached the 200m semi-finals.Nigerian sprinter Divine Oduduru has received a six-year doping

"therapist" Eric Lira ©Getty ImagesIn addition to the ban – which included four years for two anti-doping

We are grateful for the assistance from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and United States

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) here yesterday.

country had been "trampled upon" since 2015, when it faced growing scrutiny over a state-sponsored doping

until after Pyeongchang 2018, meaning they competed as "Olympic Athletes from Russia".The World Anti-Doping

Canadian International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Tricia Smith has arrived here for the Session, despite an ongoing diplomatic row between her country and India.

Mumbai.Canadian Olympic Committee President Smith has been an IOC member since 2016, while former World Anti-Doping

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) here, following its recognition of regional entities in illegally annexed Ukrainian territories. 

of Ukraine in February last year.It was previously suspended in 2017 because of the state-sponsored doping

still required to compete under the ROC banner at Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 because of World Anti-Doping

World ice dance champion Evan Bates of the United States has described the delay in the doping case involving

an appeal to CAS, sport's highest court, after a Russian investigation found Valieva not guilty of a doping