Reasoned decisions by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) have provided weight to the reliability of McLaren Report evidence in establishing rule violations against Russian athletes implicated in the country's doping scandal.
A group of 12 Russian athletes, including the 2012 Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov, have been suspended for periods ranging from two to eight years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled against them.
Kenya's Lucy Kabuu Wangui, a former Commonwealth 10,000 metres champion, has been handed a two-year ban after testing positive for prohibited substance morphine.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has confirmed that it has provisionally suspended Bahrain athlete Kemi Adekoya for a failed drugs test.
Kenyan world 800 metres bronze medallist Kipyegon Bett has been hit with a four-year ban after he tested positive for the prohibited substance Erythropoietin (EPO), the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced today.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced the provisional suspension of Kazakh hurdler Natalya Ivoninskaya following a London 2012 Olympics retest.
Zambian 400 metres runner and former footballer Kabange Mupopo has been given a four-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after she tested positive for a banned substance.
American long jumper Jarrion Lawson has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after failing a drugs test.
The first World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) approved laboratory in East Africa is to open in Kenya's capital Nairobi, a move hailed as a major development for the region's drug crisis.
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) senior vice-president Sergey Bubka has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) following newspaper reports concerning links of a financial relationship with officials at the centre of doping and corruption scandals.
Kenya and Ethiopia head a list of nations categorised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) as being the most at risk of doping after new regulations which put more responsibility on National Federations to deal with the problem were approved by the Council.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has today announced that Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet is among more than 100 track and field athletes and officials who are subject to disciplinary proceedings for doping offences.
Three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop says he has given up trying to prove his positive doping sample was contaminated.
Ukrainian sprinters Olesya Povkh and Olha Zemlyak, who failed drugs tests on the eve of last year's International Association of Athletics Federations, have been banned four and eight years respectively, it has been announced.
Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) spokesman Ben Nichols has been appointed to the new role of director of communications and public affairs for the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), it was announced today.
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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