Double Olympic gold medallist Conor Dwyer has announced his retirement from swimming after he was given a 20-month doping ban for having testosterone pellets inserted into his body.
All three of Australia's reigning Paralympic champions have been named on the country's team for November's World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai.
Olympic judo gold medallist Rafaela Silva of Brazil has admitted testing positive for a banned substance during last month's Pan American Games in Lima.
A host of Olympic gold medallists will return to the scene of their triumphs at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro at the upcoming International Shooting Sport Federation Rifle and Pistol World Cup.
New Zealand's Chef de Mission for Tokyo 2020 Rob Waddell believes organisers in Japan are "several steps ahead" of where Rio 2016 were with a little under a year until the Games.
Olympic gold medal-winning volleyball player Yang Fangxu has been banned for four years by the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) after she tested positive for erythropoietin.
Amidst the euphoria of this summer’s cricket World Cup and Ashes series, a FIFA Women's World Cup, an epic Wimbledon finals weekend and Shane Lowry winning The Open on home territory you had perhaps have been forgiven for having blinked and missed the "One Year to Go" celebrations ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
American star Dana Vollmer, five times an Olympic champion, is to retire from competitive swimming following this week’s US National Championships.
Dutch Olympian Madiea Ghafoor has been arrested in Germany after police allegedly found 50 kilograms of methamphetamine and ecstasy worth around €2 million (£1.8 million/€2.2 million) in the boot of her car.
Moala Takelo, a gold medallist for Tonga at the 2019 Pacific Games, has paid tribute to the country’s most well-known taekwondo athlete, Pita Taufatofua, for his role in the nation’s success in Samoa.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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