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

  • Inside the Blogs

Agency (WADA) over the years, and indeed my Presidency during the past 12 months, is that doping is

The very fact that this conference was even necessary demonstrates the fact that doping is no longer

By working closely with the pharmaceutical industry, we in anti doping are able to identify trends of

Sport needs Government to be able to push anti-doping to the top of the agenda.

This is something the new anti-doping rules - the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code - highlights the need for.The



Russian Athletics President to resign over doping scandals

  • Athletics

Balakhnichev is to resign as President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) following a string of doping

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

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

athletics accusationJanuary 2015: Another Russian Olympic champion accused of doping - with IAAF verdict

imminentJanuary 2015: Head coach of Russian athletics team resigns amid doping crisisJanuary 2015: New

Russian Government post to be introduced to tackle doping crisis



Australian Olympic Committee seeking general manager of sport post

  • ONOC

By Michael PavittThe Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) have announced that they are hiring for the position of a general manager of sport, based in Sydney.

liaison role with external stakeholders, including the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Anti-Doping


Kasper awaits the Vonn Effect as the Vail Beaver Creek Alpine World Ski Championships prepare for take off

  • The Big Read

By Mike RowbottomAs competitors and spectators gather in Colorado for the Alpine World Ski Championships which are due get underway tomorrow, Gian-Franco Kasper - President of the International Ski Federation (FIS) is looking forward to the Vonn Effect.The presence in Vail/Beaver Creek of Lindsey Vonn, who last month equalled and then broke Annemarie Moser-Proll's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup victories, will intensify the focus on a sporting event which is second only to the winter Olympics in terms of prestige.Not least because the outgoing American has come back this year from a serious knee injury which prevented her competing...

Kasper, who became an IOC member in 2000 and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency three years later


Taekwondo to be added to Tokyo 2020 Paralympic programme as sailing and football seven-a-side miss out

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

By Nick ButlerTaekwondo will make its Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020, it was decided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board today, meaning a total of 22 sports will feature, but sailing and football seven-a-side will miss out.

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


Russian set to be stripped of London 2012 Olympic title after doping ban

  • Athletics

her 3,000 metres steeplechase Olympic title after being handed a backdated two-year suspension for doping

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) confirmed today that both Chernova and Zaripova are serving backdated

Doping is horrible when you are effected by it."

" in Russian athletics accusationJanuary 2015: Another Russian Olympic champion accused of doping - with

2015: New Russian Government post to be introduced to tackle doping crisisJanuary 2015: Tallent calls

for blanket ban on Russians as IAAF expresses "major concern" over doping


Jeptoo to miss Rio 2016 after receiving two-year doping ban

  • Athletics

ButlerMarathon runner Rita Jeptoo has been handed a two-year ban by Athletics Kenya after her failed doping

Jeptoo, the most high profile Kenyan athlete to have been suspended for doping, has been handed a ban

now mandatory four-year one because her violation came before the introduction of the new World Anti Doping

ban handed out to Rita Jeptoo ©Getty ImagesThe suspension also comes at a time of growing fear over doping

National Olympic Committee of Kenya President Kipchoge Keino to call on the Kenyan Government to make doping

story at [email protected] storiesJanuary 2015: Athletics Kenya President claims doping


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

  • Athletics

Athletics Federation (ARAF) against German television channel ARD after a documentary alleging systematic doping

investigations by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the World Anti Doping

Meanwhile, a robust defence of the country's anti-doping body has been launched once again today by Russian

"We have opened the borders for officers of the WADA, adopted a special anti-doping legislation, created

 RUSADA - Russian Anti-Doping Agency, [which] is not controlled by anyone in our country, equipped with

2015: New Russian Government post to be introduced to tackle doping crisisJanuary 2015: Tallent calls



International Cricket Council confirms hosts and dates of major events until 2019

  • Other

By Michael PavittThe International Cricket Council (ICC) have confirmed the hosts and dates of their major tournaments until 2019, with England, India and the West Indies all set the stage Cricket World Cups in various formats.

be provided about its compliance with the ICC's constitution and membership criteria.An annual anti-doping


Georgian powerlifter Iago Gorgodze banned for four years for failing doping test

  • Powerlifting News

By Liam MorganGeorgia's Iago Gorgodze has become the latest powerlifter to become embroiled in doping

Nor-Oxandrolon and stanozolol metabolite stanozolol-N-glucuronide, which are included in the World Anti-Doping

The Georgian follows a number of powerlifters who have been charged with a doping offence after Brazilian

to Doping" campaign at every major competition as the governing body aims to educate athletes and teams

2014: Iranian London 2012 silver medal winner becomes latest powerlifter to fail doping testJuly 2014

: Two powerlifters suspended after doping violations


Former UCI President McQuaid claims Lance Armstrong has been made a "scapegoat" for doping in cycling

  • Cycling

President Pat McQuaid claims disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has been made a "scapegoat" in the sport's doping

Thursday (January 29).The 43-year-old American was banned from sport for life by the United States Doping

Agency (USADA) in October 2012 for his systematic doping before he confessed to cheating his way to

Team, who were a part of, what USADA called, "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping


Park Tae-Hwan to face international hearing and being stripped of Asian Games medals after positive drugs test

  • Aquatics

By Liam MorganSouth Korean Olympic gold medallist Park Tae-Hwan is facing an international doping hearing

positive for Nebido, more commonly known as injectable testosterone, which is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping

Because of FINA's regulations on confidentiality on doping tests until the penalties are determined after

shot contained the prohibited substance, he may still ultimately be held responsible under WADA's Anti-Doping