This spring, Sharapova resumed participation in tournaments after a 15-month disqualification for an instance of noncompliance with anti-doping rules.  But the Russian tennis player will not be able to take part in the WTA tournament in Birmingham and in the ...

Yelena Isinbayeva will be removed from a key anti-doping position in Russia as she is a barrier to the country’s compliance with the World Anti-Doping Agency code, the body says, according to the BBC. The double Olympic pole vault champion, ...

The Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, 30, was ranked too low to gain direct entry as she continues her return from a 15-month drugs ban, according to the BBC. “There can be a wildcard for the return from injuries – ...

Before Sharapova’s official return to the court on Wednesday for her first match since the 2016 Australian Open, Bouchard, the world No. 59, ripped to shreds the World Tennis Association for allowing Sharapova to play following her testing positive for ...

The London 2012 Olympics were “corrupted on an unprecedented scale” by Russia’s government and sports authorities, who colluded to ensure the country’s sportspeople were able to take a cocktail of banned performance-enhancing drugs yet evade doping tests, it has been ...

The first McLaren report discovered that Russia has run a systemic and state-sponsored doping program for several years, including in the run-up to the Sochi Games. The report caused ban of hundreds of Russian athletes from 2016 Olympics in Rio ...

IOC President Thomas Bach said after a special Olympic summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 21 that the measure is being introduced because the Russian and Kenyan anti-doping agencies are unreliable and put “very serious doubts on the presumption of ...

Russia, a superpower of track and field, had lobbied furiously to avert the prospect of a Summer Olympics athletics program taking place without its athletes, and argued that it was taking all the steps required of it to dispel charges ...

The report was published two days before athletics’ governing body rules on whether Russian competitors can take part in the Rio Olympics this summer, BBC reports. In November, Russia’s athletes were banned after a Wada report highlighted widespread failing in ...

The Russian sportswoman Maria Sharapova, the five-time tennis Grand Slam winner, will face an anti-doping panel in London on Wednesday after taking the banned drug meldonium, the BBC reports. The 29-year-old Russian failed a doping test at the Australian Open ...

Povetkin tested positive for meldonium, his promoter Andrei Ryabinsky said to Russian media on Friday, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to ABC News. “We’re in contact with the WBC. They’ll take the decision on whether the fight will happen or not,” ...

A brief preview of the CBS program due to air on May 8 did not reveal the names of the suspected dope cheats. But Stepanov charges that the former head of Russia’s drug-testing lab told him he had a “Sochi ...

On March 24 the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) denied that it had covered up failed doping tests by Russian swimmers, Radio Liberty Europe reports. The RUSADA statement comes one day after a damning report by the London newspaper The Times ...

The UN has suspended Maria Sharapova as a goodwill ambassador following the Russian tennis star’s admission that she tested positive for the banned substance meldonium at the Australian Open in January, the Guardian reports. The UN Development Programme, which works ...

“I did fail the test and I take full responsibility for it,” Sharapova said during a press conference in Los Angeles that was streamed live on her website and attended by her parents Yuri and Yelena, people.com reports. The five-time ...