The World Anti-Doping Agency has confirmed the authenticity of another batch of documents posted online by the hacker group Fancy Bears. WADA again accused Russian hackers of hacking. As stated in a message on the WADA website, “Russian hackers published confidential data of 25 athletes from 8 countries...
The hackers, calling themselves the Fancy Bear group, announced that they had compromised the computer systems of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and received documents proving the use of doping by American athletes. According to the copies of documents published on the Fancybear.net website, the gymnast from the USA Simona Biles, who won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 4 times during the competition ...
As an accredited journalist, I worked at two Paralympics - the London 2012 Summer Paralympics and the Sochi Winter 2014 Paralympics. Both times I watched how incredibly athletes with disabilities and boundless spirit overcame themselves and...
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has suspended Russian weightlifters from participating in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The reason for this verdict was numerous cases of violation of anti-doping rules. “The reputation of weightlifting as a sport has been seriously damaged many times and on many levels by the actions of...
The Russian national team continues to lose athletes ahead of the 5 Olympics starting on August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The International Cycling Union (UCI) allowed only 11 of the 17 declared riders of the Russian national team to participate in the Games, the organization's press service said. Cyclists Olga Zabelinskaya, Ilnur Zakarin and Sergey Shilov were ...
Seven representatives of the Russian national swimming team will not be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, including the main star of the team, four-time world champion Yulia Efimova. According to the International Swimming Federation (FINA), they do not meet the conditions for admission to competitions that ...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (СAS) in Lausanne dismissed the claim of the Russian Olympic Committee against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), in which Russia challenged the suspension of its athletes from international competitions. This means that Russian athletes will not be able to go to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommends that all athletes from Russia be barred from the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Such a decision was published on the agency's website following the announcement of a report by the WADA independent commission, which found evidence of doping ...
The verdict from the IOC summit in Russia was expected practically without any hope, believing only that "at least" representatives of other sports would be able to go to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Almost immediately after the council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) adopted ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not suspend the Russian national team from participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team was threatened with disqualification due to the use of doping in Russian sports. At the same time, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed serious doubts about the presumption of innocence of athletes from Russia, as well as from Kenya. Every Russian and Kenyan athlete ...