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WADA sign agreement with Innovative Medicines Initiative to increase collaboration between organisations

  • News

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) have signed a Memorandum

director general David Howman believes the partnership could help his organisation in the fight against doping

dopingMarch 2015:  WADA hopes revised Code will contribute to "more accurate" reflection of prevalence of doping

February 2015: Sir Craig Reedie: Combating doping in sport is now as important to society as it is to

sportFebruary 2015: Doping in  elite sport "likely" to be between 14 and 39 per cent, claims new study


Leading Kenyan athletes protest at "unprofessional" agent suspensions

  • Athletics

Leading runners from Rosa Associati and Gerrard van der Veen’s Volare Sports stables, including double world 1500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop and world marathon record holder Dennis Kimetto, have taken part in a joint press conference in Eldoret to protest against Athletics Kenya’s suspension of their managers.

undertaking any activities in the country for six months while investigations were conducted into doping

The actions follow a spate of doping cases involving Kenyan athletes in recent months.Kenya’s CapitalFM

of Kenya (PAAK), read in a statement: “The suspension of Rosa and Volare Sports, accusing them for doping

in the past, added: “Doping is an individual case and we never wanted all of us to be sucked into it

claims doping scandals "as bad as AIDS"



Athletics Kenya suspends Italian and Dutch agencies pending investigations into doping cases

  • Athletics

agencies - Rosa Associati and Volare Sports - for six months pending investigations into a spate of doping

manages world 800 metres champion Eunice Sum and world 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop, a vocal opponent of doping

the latest turn of events.Investigations are being carried out by the Athletics Kenya  Medical and Doping

Commission, the newly established Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya and the Kenya Police.Volare Sports,

Dutch agent Gerard Van der Veen, who has now been suspended by Athletics Kenya following a series of doping

“The wind of low athletes that are doping has now affected even those of us at the top that are clean


Australian duo O'Hanlon and Reardon set to defend titles at IPC Athletics World Championships

  • Athletics News

Australia’s Evan O’Hanlon and Scott Reardon will have the opportunity to defend their world titles after being confirmed as automatic selections for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Doha.

recordJanuary 2012: O'Hanlon world record at Brisbane Track Classic not ratified by IPC due to lack of doping



Mike Rowbottom: Bubka and Coe on common territory in quest for IAAF Presidency. But who will travel better?

  • Inside the Blogs

Sergey Bubka’s manifesto, launched this week ahead of his challenge for the Presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations, features key policies including greater funding for National Federations, particularly the needier of them. 

And making the athletics calendar more coherent and relevant.Anti-doping is, of course, another major

revealed back in December that he was all for road running events, street athletics, a crackdown on doping


Joe Rafferty: How doping stole my innocence

  • Inside the Blogs

Drugs and athletics, athletics and drugs. Like death and taxes, or so it has seemed over the last few weeks.

Joe Rafferty first became aware of the doping problems in athletics when Paula Radcliffe held up an "

This "clean" 32-year-old is running faster than he ever did when he was doping.



Team Ireland updated on Baku 2015 by Chef de Mission

  • EOC

By Duncan MackayA seminar for managers, coaches and performance support staff attending the first-ever European Games in Baku has been held by the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI). 

important issues.These included  medical issues and Games support services, information on the Baku anti-doping


IWF releases Lift the World weightlifting documentary online

  • Weightlifting

By Liam MorganThe International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has released its Lift the World documentary across its social media platforms, as well as on YouTube and its official website.

video may also go some way in changing the perception of weightlifting following a string of recent doping


Decision on fate of Astana's World Tour Licence delayed until April 24, it is claimed

  • Cycling

By Liam MorganThe fate of the Astana cycling team will not be decided until April 24 after International Cycling Union (UCI) Licence Commission President Pierre Zappelli chose to give the Kazakh-based outfit more time to prepare evidence, it has been reported. 

Sciences of the University of Lausanne (ISSUL), who conducted an independent audit on Astana's anti-doping

French by the cyclist's lawyer, and said that the 30-year-old was a "global symbol of the fight against doping

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



Pechstein case compromises international arbitration, warns CAS

  • Skating

against the legal challenge in Germany over five-time Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein's doping

Sports Commission of the German Parliament in connection to the discussion related to the draft anti-doping

[email protected] storiesFebruary 2015: Nick Butler: To what extent should we forgive doping

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


Latvian ice hockey player belatedly handed two-year ban following Sochi 2014 doping failure

  • Ice Hockey

a backdated two-year suspension by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) after he failed a doping

public until April when the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Disciplinary Committee decided a doping

Regulation Article 5.7.Another Latvian, Vitalijs Pavlovs, has already been handed a ban after also failing a doping

teams only face disqualification from the Olympics if more than one player in a team commits an anti-doping

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesJanuary 2015: Swedish ice hockey star avoids ban following failed doping