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Athletics doping scandal 2015

The UTMB start line is packed with the best runners in the world, and relative novices – where do we draw the line for testing? Photo: UTMB

It’s time to talk about drug tests, or lack thereof, in trail running

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30 Jan 2018 - 8:10AM

Bribery and intimidation: dark new doping claims rock Russia ahead of key Olympic decision

16 Jun 2016 - 11:19AM

Late Russian anti-doping boss was set to expose truth over performance-enhancing drugs development

21 Feb 2016 - 2:04PM

<p>Nikita Kamayev quit as executive director of Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency two months ago, and died last weekend at the age of 52 of a suspected heart attack</p>

Athletics Kenya chief Isaac Mwangi to temporarily step aside over bribery allegations

17 Feb 2016 - 10:01AM

Opinion | Nestle worried about damage to its reputation? Please – cash, not morals, is only reason corporations are quitting athletics

15 Feb 2016 - 3:17PM

Seb Coe angered as food giant Nestle terminates IAAF sponsorship over ongoing doping scandal

11 Feb 2016 - 11:15AM

British Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe poses at a photo session after a signing ceremony for the British team's Tokyo 2020 Olympic games preparation camp in Tokyo on February 8, 2016. Beleaguered world athletics boss Coe admitted on February 8 there would be no quick fix as he battles to restore public trust in the crisis-hit sport. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA

Banned Kenya athletes allege doping bribery

11 Feb 2016 - 12:56AM

World records of Chinese runners in doubt amid doping scandal

5 Feb 2016 - 11:13PM

Adidas to ditch major sponsorship of IAAF over doping scandal

25 Jan 2016 - 10:54AM

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 file photo, newly elected International Association of Athletics Federations President Sebastian Coe speaks during a press briefing at the IAAF Congress at the National Convention Center in Beijing. The British government ordered ambassadors around the world to lobby athletics leaders to vote for Sebastian Coe in the IAAF presidential election, aiming to ensure “British interests are protected,” diplomatic messages obtained by The Associated Press reveal. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Usain Bolt shocked by IAAF reports, against wiping records

16 Jan 2016 - 10:04PM

Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates winning the men's 4x100 metres relay final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu in this file picture taken September 4, 2011. Six-times Olympic champion Bolt said he felt shocked and let down by the scandal-hit IAAF, but the Jamaican sprinter was against resetting athletics world records as the sport attempts to move on from the doping crisis. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/Files

Doping report: Corruption ‘embedded’ in IAAF with Lamine Diack running fiefdom

15 Jan 2016 - 1:07AM

Sebastian Coe faces next test as Wada unveils explosive second corruption report

14 Jan 2016 - 12:43PMvideocam

Athletics: ‘There was no IAAF cover-up,’ says Sebastian Coe

14 Jan 2016 - 12:42AM

(FILES) -- A file photo taken on August 30, 2015 shows IAAF president Sebastian Coe presenting medals for the women's marathon athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium in Beijing. Coe has denied allegations of a conflict of interest over his ties with Nike and his role in the 2021 championships being awarded to the sportswear company's home state. Coe, head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), told the BBC on November 25, 2015: "I did not lobby anyone on behalf of the Eugene 2021 bid" in the US state of Oregon. AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER

Life ban handed down to disgraced Diack in athletics doping blackmail scandal

8 Jan 2016 - 9:47AM

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 file photo, Russian Athletics Federation President Valentin Balakhnichev, right, and deputy mayor of Moscow Alexander Gorbenkov, left, attend the closing ceremony at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia. The son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack and two Russian officials have been banned from track and field for life after an ethics investigation into extortion and doping cover-ups, it was announced Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Banned for life were Papa Massata Diack, who worked as an IAAF consultant; former Russian athletics federation head Valentin Balakhnichev; and Alexei Melnikov, former head coach of Russia's race-walking and long-distance running programs. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Beleaguered IAAF to double its anti-doping budget to US$8m in an effort to ‘build trust’

6 Jan 2016 - 12:19PM

European athletics supremo doubtful Russia will be ready to compete at Rio Olympics

30 Dec 2015 - 12:19PM

Second part of explosive Wada doping report set for January 14 release

29 Dec 2015 - 3:13PM

Former athletics boss Lamine Diack faces new corruption charges

23 Dec 2015 - 12:47AM

I knew nothing about corruption in athletics, insists Sebastian Coe

3 Dec 2015 - 9:46AM

Athletics chief Sebastian Coe gives up role with Nike in bid to fend off conflict-of-interest claims

27 Nov 2015 - 9:10AM

Sebastian Coe, IAAF's President, attends the IAAF press conference in Monaco, November 26, 2015. Coe, who leads the ruling body of world athletics, announced that he is stepping down from his paid ambassadorial role for the sportswear firm Nike, as he faced repeated questions about a potential conflict of interest. REUTERS/Jean-Pierre Amet

More athletics doping revelations ahead as author of shock report says part two even more explosive

25 Nov 2015 - 12:01PM

Richard W. Pound IOC Member from Canada talks to Natalia Zhelanova advisor to the Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation during the World Anti-Doping Agency(WADA) Foundation meeting on November 18, 2015 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on November 13, 2015 provisionally suspended Russia from events but left the door open for the country's athletes to compete in Rio. AFP PHOTO TOM KIMMELL

Russian anti-doping agency banned for breaking Wada code

19 Nov 2015 - 9:33AM

Russian athletics will reform in time for Rio Olympics, says bullish IOC chief Thomas Bach

IOC president Thomas Bach said yesterday he was confident Russia would enact the necessary anti-doping reforms in time for its track and field athletes to be cleared to compete in next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

15 Nov 2015 - 10:46AM

Russian track federation handed suspension putting their participation in Rio Olympics at risk

Calling it a wake-up call for a sport in a “shameful” position, IAAF President Sebastian Coe said Russia will be banned from next year’s Olympics unless it convinces the world it has cleaned up its act on doping.

14 Nov 2015 - 11:30AM

Russia could now find itself banned from participating at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Photo: EPA

Unprecedented action on doping needed to restore the image of athletics

An anti-doping commission report alleging corruption, cover-ups, extortion, bribery and systematic use of drugs in international-level athletics furthers the impression that all sport is corrupt.

14 Nov 2015 - 1:14PM

Members of the International Association of Athletics Federations will meet to discuss whether to bar Russia from the Olympics. Photo: EPA

Facing possible exile, Russia pledges to set up new anti-doping agency if Wada demands it

Russia, accused of state-sponsored doping, have said they are ready to establish a new anti-doping agency hours before world athletics chiefs meet, with exclusion from the 2016 Olympics a potential long-term consequence for Moscow.

14 Nov 2015 - 12:38AM

Russia rules out Olympics boycott as they ‘admit some things’ in doping scandal are true

13 Nov 2015 - 9:48AM

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Athletics doping scandal 2015

Athletics was thrown into turmoil in July 2015 after German broadcaster ARD and The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain alleged that blood doping was rampant, citing test results from an International Association of Athletics Federations database that were leaked by a whistleblower. In November, the scandal intensified, as a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation alleged that Russia had systematically covered up doping, and even blackmailed athletes who tested positive, with the support of IAAF chief Lamine Diack

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9 September, 2024