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International Olympic Committee backs new anti-doping body INTERNATIONAL

International Olympic Committee backs new anti-doping body

Olympic chiefs on Saturday asked the World Anti-Doping agency to create a new drug testing body and called for sports' top court to rule on doping sanctions, moves aimed at curbing the powers of federations.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Sharapova doping ban reduced to 15 months by CAS CULTURE

Sharapova doping ban reduced to 15 months by CAS

Maria Sharapova said she could not wait to return to tennis next April after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced the former world number one's two-year drugs ban by nine months on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
German athletics chief not impressed with IOC over doping and Russia CULTURE

German athletics chief not impressed with IOC over doping and Russia

German athletics federation (DLV) chief Clemens Prokop has named the International Olympic Comittee (IOC) ‘a problematic actor’ in the fight against doping ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Putin slams Paralympic ban as 'outside the law, morality, humanity' INTERNATIONAL

Putin slams Paralympic ban as 'outside the law, morality, humanity'

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday lashed out against the ban on Russian Paralympians from Rio as the country has vowed to keep fighting the suspension it faces over state-sponsored doping.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Russian Paralympic Committee vows to fight ban CULTURE

Russian Paralympic Committee vows to fight ban

Russia's Paralympic Committee on Monday vowed to fight its ban from the Rio Games over state-sponsored doping and insisted it was committed to fighting the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Italian athletics coach charged in Kenya with doping INTERNATIONAL

Italian athletics coach charged in Kenya with doping

Italian athletics coach Claudio Berardelli was charged in a Kenyan court on Tuesday over the alleged administration of a prohibited performance enhancing substance to a Kenyan marathon champion.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
No blanket ban on Russians in Rio, says IOC CULTURE

No blanket ban on Russians in Rio, says IOC

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month's Rio Olympics over the nation's doping record but will leave decisions on individual athletes' participation with their sports federations.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Sports court to rule on Russian athletes competing at Rio by July 21 CULTURE

Sports court to rule on Russian athletes competing at Rio by July 21

Athletics' governing body the IAAF and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) have agreed to let the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rule on ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Athletes and federations face Olympic doping bans - Bach CULTURE

Athletes and federations face Olympic doping bans - Bach

IOC president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that athletes and federations face life bans from the Olympics as he warned that doping has hit "an unprecedented level of criminality".

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IOC say 31 athletes could miss Rio after Beijing re-tests INTERNATIONAL

IOC say 31 athletes could miss Rio after Beijing re-tests

Thirty one athletes from six sports could be banned from this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics after 454 doping samples were re-tested from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the IOC said ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Russia dismisses Sochi Games doping claims CULTURE

Russia dismisses Sochi Games doping claims

Russia's sports minister on Saturday dismissed claims that four Russian gold medallists at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were drug cheats.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pakistan's Yasir Shah suspended for doping: ICC CULTURE

Pakistan's Yasir Shah suspended for doping: ICC

Pakistan's leg-spinner Yasir Shah was on Sunday provisionally suspended for failing a dope test by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

4:45 AM November 25 2016