Olympics Doping News Today

Out sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are at odds over discrepancies in the handling of Olympics doping cases after

Berlin (dpa) - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has opened proceedings into the exclusion of all Russian track-and-field athletes from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.A final decision will be reached by July 21 at the latest, the CAS said in a press release.Sixty-eight Russian athletes and the Russian National Olympic Committee have turned to the CAS as a court of last instance in an attempt to overturn the Olympic ban handed out by the IAAF, the sport‘s international ruling b...

Berlin (dpa) - Four gold medallists from Kazakhstan are among 10 weightlifters who have been caught doping in retests of samples from the 2012 Olympics, the sport‘s ruling body IWF said.The IWF said late Wednesday that Olympic champions Ilya Ilyin (men‘s 94kg), and the women‘s champions Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg) tested positive, all for the steroid stanozolol, and Ilyin also for testosterone.Three athletes from Belarus, and o...

Kienbaum (dpa) - German Olympic discus champion Robert Harting on Tuesday harshly criticized International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach over the decision not impose a doping-related blanket ban on Russian athletes for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Berlin (dpa) - Members of the International Olympic Committee executive board which decides Sunday on a possible exclusion of Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.President:Thomas Bach (Germany)Vice-presidents:Nawal El Moutawakel (Morocco) Craig Reedie (Britain) John Coates (Australia) Zaiqing Yu (China)Members:Wu Ching Kuo (Taiwan) Rene Fasel (Switzerland) Patrick Hickey (Ireland) Claudia Bokel (Germany) Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain) Sergey Bubka (Ukraine) Willi Kaltschmitt Lujan (Guatemal...

Berlin (dpa) - Every Russian fencer entered into the Olympic Games will be allowed to compete in Rio de Janeiro, world fencing governing body FIE said Wednesday.

Berlin (dpa) - Athletes have welcomed the outcome of an investigation into state-controlled doping in Russia.The athlete committee of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said the findings of a WADA investigation were

Berlin (dpa) - The IOC has said that 45 additional athletes have been caught using forbidden substances in the second round of retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.In all, the IOC has now re-examined 1,243 samples from the two Games, with 98 athletes testing positive. Two further rounds of retests are planned.

Berlin (dpa) - The ruling athletics body FIFA says it can assist other sports federations on the issue of eligibility for Russian athletes to compete at the Rio Olympics.The IAAF has suspended the Russian athletics federation and turned down requests from 67 Russian athletes to compete in Rio, allowing only United States-based long-jumper Darya Klishina a place at the Games.

Moscow (dpa) - Russian federal investigators have made fresh accusations against the whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov. The accusations come as part of ongoing criminal proceedings against the ex-head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory.Having already been charged with abuse of authority, Rodchenkov now stands accused not just of participating in systematic doping, but of advancing the programme significantly, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian investigative authorities, said on Monda...