Former world 200m champion Anastasia Kapachinskaya tested positive after the International Olympic Committee conducted reanalysis on stored samples from the Beijing Olympics Russia's silver medal-winning 4x400m team from the Beijing Olympics have been stripped of their medals after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that...

Russian pole vaulter is among four athletes added to the Commission for an eight-year term Russia's world pole vault record-holder Yelena Isinbayeva has been elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission. This comes despite the 34-year-old being among athletes prevented from competing at the Olympic Gam...

Reanalysis of the sprinter's Beijing 2008 Olympic samples resulted in a positive test for prohibited substances Russia has been stripped of the Beijing 2008 Olympic 4x100m relay title following the disqualification of Yulia Chermoshanskaya, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced. The sprinter, who anchored the Russ...

Athletics' world governing body says it has withdrawn the Russian long jumper's "exceptional eligibility" status based on new information Darya Klishina could be prevented from competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) withdrew the Russian long jumper's "exceptional eligi...

Track and field athletes remain unable to compete for Russia at the Rio Olympics, but the International Olympic Committee decides against a blanket ban Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova will not be allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics following a decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board regarding the partic...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected the appeal of the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 Russian athletes over IAAF ban from international competition Russian track and field athletes will not be able to compete at Rio 2016 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected an appeal by the Russian Olympic Committee an...

Moscow laboratory operated within a "state-dictated failsafe system" to protect doped Russian athletes, claims WADA-commissioned investigation report A damning report revealing the findings of an investigation into doping cover-ups in Russian sport claims that at least 139 positive samples from track and field athletes were withhe...

IAAF says it has received more than 80 applications from Russian athletes seeking "exceptional eligibility" to compete in an individual capacity following continued suspension of RusAF as an IAAF Member Russian 800m runner Yuliya Stepanova is now eligible to compete internationally as an independent neutral athlete, the International...

International Olympic Committee summit confirms "respect and approval and support" for IAAF's decision to uphold its suspension of Russia President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, has said there is "full support for the decision" made by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to upho...

Russian athletics federation remains suspended from IAAF membership but Russians could still compete at the Rio Olympics as "neutral" athletes The suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) as an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Member has been upheld following an IAAF Council meeting in Vienna on...

Athlete evasion, tampering and restricted access among findings in a report released two days before IAAF decision on Russia's participation at Rio Olympics A damning 23-page update report regarding Russian testing has been published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) just two days before a decision over Russia's participation at...

Athletics' world governing body says Russia still has "significant work" to do if the nation's athletes are to be allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics Russian athletes remain banned from international competition, with an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) taskforce ruling that the nation still has "significant...