President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov informed that the decision on the participation of athletes, listed in the ROC's application, at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will made no later than …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will make a proposal on the formation of a new, more transparent and independent anti-doping system, the head of Committee Thomas Bach informed. "We need a full review of …
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says the country’s sport bodies will be soon reorganized following a series of doping scandals in Russian sports which have led to most of the country’s track and field team being …
Ministry of Health of Russia should be the only institution that deals with anti-doping policy
The Kremlin welcomes the decision made by the International Olympic Committee to allow doping-clean Russian athletes to take part in the 2016 Summer Games, the Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. …
Regardless of whether Russian athletes deserve to be punished, the games will be less entertaining and less fulfilling if they are not in Rio, such opinion was expressed in the article, wrote by The Wall Street Journal …
Doping scandals have become the manifestation of unfair competition on the international scene, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a forum titled 'Territory of Meanings on the Klyazma'. "Aside from normal …
The campaign against Russian athletes strikes a blow on the Olympic movement and is a crime against sports, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, TASS reports. "What is now …
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has postponed indefinitely the national Olympic team’s farewell ceremony for 2016 Summer Games in Brazil from July 22, the head of the Russian Rio 2016 Olympic delegation, Igor Kazikov, …
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the Russian Olympic Committee’s appeal against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Russian athletes will not be able to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de …
Boycotting the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games amid the ongoing doping scandal is not on Russian agenda, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "No, there is no such topic on the agenda. I want to refer you to …
The International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday it will study "legal options" before deciding whether to ban Russia from the Rio Games over its state-run doping programme. But Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly …
Russia's participation in the Rio Olympics is hanging in the balance after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would "explore legal options" for banning the country from the Games. At an emergency IOC …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed ways to resolve the Syria crisis and Russia's doping scandal in a phone call on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is holding an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee, which will be focused on be the punishment of Russian athletes for alleged doping. It is known that the WADA report, which accused Moscow of creating a special mechanism for substitution of doping samples of athletes at the Olympic Games in Sochi, became the reason for discussion. In particular, the WADA believes that positive doping tests of Russian athletes disappeared in the anti-doping laboratory in Moscow for years. In this regard, recommendations of the agency are quite simple - to remove Russian athletes from the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio.
An independent commission led by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren presented a report accusing Russia of having run a state-sponsored doping program. "Together with other national anti-doping …
The representatives of the anti-doping agencies of 10 countries and 20 groups of athletes require removal of the entire Russian team from participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the newspaper New York Times wrote on Saturday. …
Athletes have no money to provide additional samples and undergo independent examinations
Sports lawyer Artem Patsev, representing the interests of two Russian athletes - Denis Nizhegorodov and Svetlana Vasilyeva, stated that the final decision on participation of athletes from Russia …
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that it amended the organization’s regulations in order to allow field and track athletes from Russia to submit individual applications for international …
