State Sponsored Doping

• U.S. senators bring bill to criminalize doping conspiracies like Russia’s in 2014

  The bill calls for fines of up to $1 million and prison sentences of up to 10 years for those who participate in schemes designed to influence international sports competitions through doping.

  Sports

  Dec 19, 2018
  
• IOC to decide on Russian Olympics ban for state-sponsored doping program

  The IOC executive board is meeting to decide if Russian athletes can compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics despite evidence that the country ran an orchestrated doping program at the 2014 Sochi Games.

  Sports

  Dec 5, 2017
  
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• Russia could miss 2018 Winter Olympics after WADA obtains doping database

  The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said it had obtained a database that confirmed allegations of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia made in the McLaren report.

  Sports

  Nov 10, 2017
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• Rio 2016: Russia loses appeal on ban of Paralympic athletes

  The Court of Arbitration for Sport has confirmed Russia's ban from the Paralympic Games as punishment for a state-backed doping program.

  Sports

  Aug 23, 2016
• Rio 2016: Banned Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva elected to IOC’s athlete’s commission

  Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has been elected to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) athletes commission, despite being banned from the Rio Olympics.

  Sports

  Aug 19, 2016
• Rio 2016: Believe it or not, race walking is at the center of Russia’s doping scandal

  For decades, race walking has largely been ignored, derided and sometimes ridiculed by those unfamiliar with the inner workings of the sport. To the Russians, it was never a joke.

  World

  Aug 9, 2016
• There have been 85 athletes from Russian Olympic team banned from Rio so far

  The International Canoe Federation has barred five Russian canoeists from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

  Sports

  Jul 26, 2016