Tag: WADA

18 December 2020, 8:49 PM

The Kremlin said on Friday it regretted Russia was unable to avoid doping sanctions but some officials declared a small ...

The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said the sanctions, which also bar Russia from hosting or bidding for major sporting events, would come into force on Thursday and end on December 16, 2022.

Russia’s Olympic doping ban halved, but flag barred from next two Games

18 December 2020, 2:18 PM

Russian athletes will be barred from competing at major international events, including the Olympics, under the country’s flag until 2022 ...

The anti-doping body added cocaine, diamorphine (heroin), methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA/’ecstasy’) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as substances of abuse in the 2021 list.

Athletes’ union welcomes WADA’s revised recreational drugs list

2 October 2020, 4:03 PM

The World Players Association (WPA) said athletes who tested positive for recreational drugs would no longer be left to suffer ...

RUSADA was suspended in 2015 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of mass doping in Russian athletics.

Russia to make up for break in doping testing once coronavirus restrictions lifted

15 April 2020, 3:25 PM

Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA will undertake a broad programme to monitor athletes' biological components once a full hiatus in testing ...

WADA acknowledged last week that the coronavirus pandemic had created challenges for drug-testers with countries closing borders, cancelling flights, enforcing mandatory quarantines or isolations and the shutdown of the sporting calendar

Coronavirus will not be opportunity for drug cheats says WADA chief

by Skhangiwe Mthiyane

28 March 2020, 9:50 AM

16 December 2019, 6:13 PM

World Anti-Doping Agency chief Witold Banka had a message on Friday for any athlete thinking they could take advantage of ...

A blanket ban is seen as requisite punishment by hawks within WADA but more sensible personalities like Heyns are concerned about the innocent individuals who are caught in the doping scandal shrouding RUSADA.

WADA’s blanket ban of RUSADA unfair on innocent athletes – Penny Heyns

by Preggie Moodley

Penny Heyns, the celebrated South African two-time Olympic gold medalist, remains a highly regarded authority in the world of athletics.

With most countries going into lockdown and closing borders to contain the spread of the coronavirus, WADA said the anti-doping system was facing challenges.

Indian board complies with national anti-doping agency

9 August 2019, 1:37 PM

The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has shed its apprehensions about efficiency of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and will come ...

The biggest challenge that WADA still faces to this day is its apparent uneven treatment of doping authorities.

World Anti-doping body must ‘play true’ or risk alienating unhappy affiliates

11 April 2019, 3:50 PM

In about a week from today, King’s college in London, England, will play host to a very important international conference, ...

Former Russian champions clear of doping

by Chuma Nobanda

22 January 2019, 7:03 AM

Former world champions Sergey Shubenkov and Maria Lasitskene were among 42 Russian athletes cleared to compete as neutrals in international ...

A woman walks into the head office of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada November 9, 2015.

Russia says WADA team to return to Moscow for required data

7 January 2019, 7:43 PM

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials will return to Moscow on Wednesday to retrieve laboratory data the body requires, Russia's minister ...

Russia faces doping suspension as WADA is denied access to lab data

22 December 2018, 7:55 AM

Russia's Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is again on the verge of suspension after a World Anti-Doping Agency inspection team visiting a ...

WADA declares Nigerian anti-doping agency “non-compliant”

15 November 2018, 5:56 PM

The World Anti-Doping Agency says on Thursday that Nigeria’s national anti-doping agency had been declared non-compliant.

WADA said that it had conducted various assessments since December 17 and found there were still shortcomings

WADA revokes Lisbon lab accreditation

25 October 2018, 9:03 PM

28 September 2018, 9:31 AM

The World Anti-Doping Agency Thursday revoked the accreditation of the anti-doping laboratory in Lisbon, which had already been suspended for ...

Kenyan athletes who engage in doping do it in an uncoordinated, unsophisticated and opportunistic way, with no sign of an institutionalized system, according to a WADA report.

Kenyan athletes caught doping do it in uncoordinated, unsophisticated way: WADA

by Bongisipho Magcaba

The WADA report also said that between 2004 and August 1, 138 Kenyan athletes had tested positive for prohibited substances, ...

In 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) put the country on its Category A list of nations on watch for anti-doping violations.

WADA to reinstate Russia after doping suspension: statement

15 September 2018, 8:12 AM

The World Anti-Doping Agency has been given the green light to lift its ban on Russia's drug-tainted testing authority after ...

Team Sky's Chris Froome in action during the final stage.

Froome cleared by UCI in doping case

2 July 2018, 2:00 PM

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome was cleared by cycling’s world governing body on Monday of any wrongdoing after ...

Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration for Sport Matthieu Reeb spoke during a news conference in Pyeongchang.

Olympic Body at risk of losing credibility over Russian athletes

by Buchule Putini

8 February 2018, 8:10 PM