Long jumper Daria Klishina, who was the only representative of the Russian national athletics team, admitted to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, was suspended from performing at the 2016 Games. The decision to remove the athlete was made on August 13 based on new information received by the IAAF, writes ...
The Russian national team continues to lose athletes ahead of the 5 Olympics starting on August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The International Cycling Union (UCI) allowed only 11 of the 17 declared riders of the Russian national team to participate in the Games, the organization's press service said. Cyclists Olga Zabelinskaya, Ilnur Zakarin and Sergey Shilov were ...
Seven representatives of the Russian national swimming team will not be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, including the main star of the team, four-time world champion Yulia Efimova. According to the International Swimming Federation (FINA), they do not meet the conditions for admission to competitions that ...
On Wednesday, it was decided to take away two quotas from Russia for participation in weightlifting competitions: the men's team lost one place and the women's team lost one. In addition, the national teams of Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan and North Korea suffered similar punishment. One by one…
The verdict from the IOC summit in Russia was expected practically without any hope, believing only that "at least" representatives of other sports would be able to go to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Almost immediately after the council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) adopted ...
Former executive director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Nikita Kamaev, who retired due to the scandal with Russian athletes, died suddenly at the age of 50. As reported, the cause of death of Kamaev, presumably, was a heart attack. Just ten days earlier, the chairman of the executive board passed away ...
The head of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Richard Pound, told the R-Sport agency that he welcomes the idea of conducting investigations in ski racing and biathlon, similar to the one the commission conducted in athletics. On Thursday, the second part of the report of the WADA independent commission...
Amid threats from the International Athletics Federation to exclude Russian athletes from the Olympic Games, The Times newspaper suggests recalling that the United States also hid the violations of its athletes. Victor Comte is the man behind the biggest thing in American athletics...
The Commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommended the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to disqualify the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) for systematic violations related to the use of doping by athletes. In the event that the activities of the national athletics federation are invalidated, athletes from Russia will not ...
Former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diak, a lawyer and one of the association's doctors are suspected of accepting bribes from the All-Russian Athletics Federation for hiding the doping cases of Russian athletes. On Wednesday, Diak and other suspects were arrested in France ...