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NADO LEADERS REQUEST CLEAR CRITERIA AND A TRANSPARENT PROCESS FOR SELECTION OF OLYMPIC ATHLETES FROM RUSSIA

17 January 2018, leaders from 19 National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) came together for a fifth special summit, this time in Bonn, to discuss the urgent questions that are still unanswered in the lead up to the Olympic Winter Games. NADO leaders are speaking out to support clean athletes who face an uncertain playing field and who have voiced their concern that clean competition has been compromised.

Retest of samples collected in Vancouver Olympic Winter Games Returns positive test

The Disciplinary Commission of the International Olympic Committee has on Monday, 18 December 2017, informed the International Biathlon Union that The Athlete, Teja Gregorin of Slovenia, is found to have committed anti-doping rule violations pursuant to Article 2 of The International Olympic Committee Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the XXI Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 (presence, and/or use, of Prohibited Substances and its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen).

Cyclist Chris Froome tests positive for Salbutamol

Professional cyclist Chris Froome has tested positive for the prohibited substance Salbutamol. He is one of seven cyclists who has tested positive for the substance

22 athletes banned from Olympic Games by the IOC

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has sanctioned a total of 22 athletes from the Oswald Commission hearings.

IOC sanctions two Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings

Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published the first conclusions from the Oswald Commission hearings, which are being conducted in the context of the Sochi 2014 forensic and analytic doping investigations. As a result, the two Russian athletes Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Belov have been sanctioned.

IOC sanctions four Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings

Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published new decisions from the Oswald Commission hearings, which are being conducted in the context of the Sochi 2014 forensic and analytic doping investigations. As a result, the four Russian skeleton athletes, Sochi 2014 bronze medallist Elena NIKITINA, Mariia ORLOVA, Olga POTYLITSYNA and Sochi 2014 gold medallist Aleksandr TRETIAKOV, have been sanctioned.

CAS dismissed appeal filed by high jumper Anna Chicherova

Lausanne, 6 October 2017 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by the Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova against the decision issued by the Disciplinary Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dated 4 October 2016.

CAS decision concerning Norwegian Cross-Country Skier Therese Johaug

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has decided to ban the athlete for 18 months in the case against the Norwegian cross-country skier Therese Johaug.

The Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation announces anti-doping measures for 2017 Tour de France

The Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage (AFLD) and the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent body mandated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to define and carry out the fight against doping in cycling, confirmed today that they will continue their close collaboration on anti-doping controls during the 2017 Tour De France, which begins on Saturday 1st July in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Cardoso provisionally suspended for EPO

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that Portuguese rider André Cardoso was notified of an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) of Erythropoietin in a sample collected in the scope of an out-of-competition control on 18 June 2017.

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