The International Biathlon Union has decided to hold an Extraordinary Congress before the World Championships in Hochfilzen.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has disqualified eight athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Summer Games
Six Russian Cross Country athletes were provisionally suspended on 22nd December after the findings in the McLaren Report outlined alleged anti-doping rules violations in connection with the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi (RUS).
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will re-analyse all samples from Russian athletes collected at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010.
The National Anti-Doping Organization of Italy has launched it's website
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) starts disciplinary procedures against 28 Russian athletes from Sochi 2014.
The IBU Extraordinary Executive Board met in Munich, Germany, and decided to open Disciplinary Proceedings by the IOC against two athletes and also impose provisional suspensions upon the two athletes. IBU will also open formal investigations against RBU and 29 athletes listed in the McLaren Report 2 for cases not related to the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014.
A new industrial PhD project in cooperation between Anti Doping Denmark, University of Copenhagen and the Norwegian laboratory for doping analysis must explore new methods of doping.
Anti Doping Denmark (ADD) and the National Police have signed an agreement that creates a framework for closer cooperation between the two authorities in the fight against doping and match-fixing.
Adopted by the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 November 2013