The Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced that Oleg Verniaiev’s doping suspension is reduced from four to two years. Oleg Verniaiev tested positive for meldonium in August 2020 during an out of competition doping...
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RUSADA has announced yesterday the ban of Angelina Simakova for the use of furosemide. The ban is for two years and starts on June 2nd of 2022. The time of the preliminary suspension is counted towards the ban and Simakova will...
This week, Oleg Verniaiev gave an interview to a Ukrainian website Suspilne Sport in which he mentioned the tension on the national team that could make him consider switching citizenship. While Verniaiev said he hasn’t...
Oleg Verniaiev talked to Suspilne Sport about fighting his doping ban and the ongoing conflict on the Ukrainian national team. Verniaiev received a four-year doping ban due to testing positive for meldonium in the fall of...
In December the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that Russian athletes might be banned from the Olympics. The Russian Anti-Doping Association (RUSADA) will be appealing the ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport...
On December 9th, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s executive committee announced that Russia will be banned from the Olympic Games, World Championships and large multi-sport events for the next four years due to non-compliance...
Several Russian gymnasts came to send the figure skaters Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova off to PyeongChang. The gymnasts also commented on the fact that the Russian athletes will have to compete under the neutral flag and...
Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee made a decision to ban Russia as a country from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics as a punishment for the state-sponsored doping. Since then, multiple Russian athletes...
Vitaly Mutko, a deputy prime minister of Russia and a former minister of sport, talked to the media about the continuing doping allegations against Russia. Mutko had been the sports minister during London, Sochi and Rio Olympics...
Russian company Element, with the support from The Ministry of Sport and RUSADA, developed a new app that’s supposed to help athletes to check whether the drugs or supplements they take contain any prohibited substances...