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Cookson warns UCI independent report on doping will make "uncomfortable reading"

  • Cycling

By Duncan MackayA report into doping during the Lance Armstrong-era will make "uncomfortable reading"

Prosecutor Dick Marty, is investigating includes not only Armstrong but also the Festina affair, a series of doping

scandals, doping investigations and confessions by riders to doping that occurred during and after the

encompasses a period which included Operación Puerto, code name of a Spanish Police operation against the doping

report will centre on what Armstrong, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after he admitting doping

President Verbruggen "must have known" about his dopingSeptember 2014: Cycling is now leading sport in anti-doping



"Integrity" key as World Marathon Majors announces unprecedented anti-doping and prize money format

  • Athletics

announced a radical new format under its first title sponsor, Abbott, including unprecedented anti-doping

athlete's continuing clean status.Under the series rules, no athlete who has been found guilty of any anti-doping

rules enforced by the IAAF, World Anti-Doping Association or National Federations is eligible to win

championship title.The new measures comes in the wake of unwelcome publicity for the marathon over doping

With a new title sponsor, a new series format and an increase in our anti-doping efforts, the Abbott

Tough ew anti-doping measures have been added in the wake of Kenya's three-time Boston Marathon winner


Exclusive: Vinokourov resigns as Bid Ambassador for Almaty 2022

  • Beijing 2022

ButlerAlexander Vinokourov, Kazakhstan's Olympic gold medal winning cyclist whose career has been dogged by doping

an era of illegal drug use in the sport, having been handed a two-year ban after being caught blood doping

team which produced 2014 Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali, but also had five riders banned for doping

and make required changes.But their reluctance to publicly admit the problems of hiring a renowned doping

cheat are troubling considering the impact doping had on the 2020 Summer race, where Japan's virtually

promoted Almaty 2022 in the last week ©Getty ImagesChina is a country that has also struggled with doping


IAAF's Kenya laboratory ready soon as new World Marathon Majors deal to boost anti-doping efforts launched

  • Athletics

By Mike RowbottomThe world's elite marathon runners will soon be subject to an enhanced anti-doping programme

at the long-awaited blood testing laboratory in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, which the IAAF's anti-doping

Boston Marathon winner Rita Jeptoo is among several high-profile Kenyan athletes to have been banned for doping

Russia's Liliya Shobukhova, the second fastest female marathon runner in history, is now serving a doping

introduced the ABP in 2009 we have sanctioned 42 athletes, which is more than any other international anti-doping

banJanuary 2015: Athletics Kenya President claims doping scandals "as bad as AIDS"December 2014: Jeptoo


IAAF will not "dance on grave" of Russia despite doping crisis, promises Coe

  • Athletics

EtchellsBanning Russia from international competition after it was accused of being involved in a systematic doping

99 per cent of Russian athletes used banned drugs and accused him of being involved in a systematic doping

Sergei Kirdyapkin, Valery Borchin and Olga Kaniskina - all being banned banned by the Russian Anti-Doping

Agency (WADA) finds that Russian officials were involved in any sort of doping programme. 

2015: Lawsuits to be filed against German TV station after "systematic doping" in Russian athletics

accusationJanuary 2015: Head coach of Russian athletics team resigns amid doping crisis


Almaty 2022 abandon plans to use iconic skiing venue as several changes to bid made

  • Beijing 2022

By Nick Butler at The Ritz-Carlton in AlmatyScrapping plans to hold Alpine skiing events at Shymbolak Resort are among several changes to Almaty's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics revealed here today as the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Evaluation Commission came to an end. 

have showcased an impressive bid but much work remainsFebruary 2015: Almaty 2022 defends use of former doping



Having Prime Minister leading Almaty 2022 campaign outlines "100 per cent" Governmental support, Kazakh officials claim

  • Beijing 2022

By Nick Butler at the InterContinental in Almaty Overriding Governmental support for Almaty's 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic campaign has been demonstrated by the appointment of Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov as bid leader, officials claimed here today.

champion Alexander Vinokourov, who remains a Bid Ambassador for Almaty 2022, she served a two year doping

Sydney 2000 champion Olga Shishigina, who, like Bid Ambassador Alexander Vinokourov, has a chequered doping

have showcased an impressive bid but much work remainsFebruary 2015: Almaty 2022 defends use of former doping


Dahlan Al Hamad wants Asia centre stage as he seeks re-election as IAAF vice-president

  • Athletics

By Mike RowbottomPutting Asia "at the centre stage" of world athletics is the ambition driving Dahlan Al Hamad, who has announced in Doha that he would seek re-election later this year as a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and President of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA).

youngsters in sportsmanlike principles, to teach them the virtues of fair play and to fight against doping

Education is our main weapon in our war against doping.

"We must focus on prevention, to raise awareness of the complications and symptoms doping use may cause


Armstrong ordered to pay record $10 million damages to insurance firm he sued over Tour de France bonuses

  • Cycling

By Michael PavittLance Armstrong must pay $10 million (£6.5 million/€9 million) worth of damages to insurance firm SCA Promotions after an arbitration panel ruled in the companies favour, following a lawsuit dating back over ten years.

withheld bonus payments relating to his Tour de France victories, due to suspicions that the cyclist was doping

forced to pay the cyclist $7.5 million (£4.9 million/€6.6 million).Following the United States Anti-Doping


IAAF "confident" Russian race walk head coach Chegin will receive sanction as part of investigation

  • Athletics

Chegin, head coach of the Russian Olympic training centre for race walkers which has suffered a spate of doping

his post despite the fact that at least 20 walkers at the centre in Saransk have been implicated in doping

kilometres champion Olga Kaniskina, resigned earlier this year.But Thomas Capdevielle, the IAAF's anti-doping

would be sanctioned as part of the current investigation by the IAAF into allegations of systematic doping

In Turkey in 2013 and 2014 we had 45-50 cases of doping," said Capdevielle."

2015: Head coach of Russian athletics team resigns amid doping crisis


World Taekwondo Federation President visits Olympic capital to discuss sport's development after Paralympic inclusion

  • Para-Taekwondo News

By Daniel EtchellsWorld Taekwondo Federation (WTF) President Chungwon Choue has visited the governing body's headquarters in Lausanne to discuss the future development of the sport following its historic inclusion on the Paralympic programme for Tokyo 2020. 

where the sport is regularly practiced, quadrennial competition programme, athlete classification, anti-doping


Armstrong finally awarded Olympic bronze medal seven years after Beijing 2008

  • Athletics

Kamloops after he was awarded it retroactively following Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich's lifetime ban for doping

Beijing, but after Mikhnevich was stripped of all the medals he has won since 2005 following the second doping

medal Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich was banned for life stripped of all results post 2005 for a second doping

It was also the second time the Canadian had been given a medal following Mikhnevich's doping misdemeanours