Former world number one Marat Safin is the first tennis player from Russia to become a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, located in Newport, Rhode Island. The induction ceremony into the honorary club with the participation of the two-time Grand Slam winner will take place on July 16. How…
Former fifth racket of the world, Russian tennis player Anna Chakvetadze, in an exclusive interview with ForumDaily, spoke about how a loud doping scandal threatens her ex-partner in the Russian national team Maria Sharapova. As ForumDaily reported on Monday, the highest paid woman in the world of sports admitted at a press conference in ...
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, the highest paid athlete in the world according to Forbes, admitted at a specially convened press conference that she had failed a doping test during the Australian Open in January. Now Sharapova is likely to miss the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as the deadline ...
Russia continues to violate anti-doping rules, despite the suspension of Russian athletes from participating in international athletics competitions. This statement was made by the German television channel ARD. On Sunday evening, the channel aired the third film in the series “Secret Case: Doping” under…
The head of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Richard Pound, told the R-Sport agency that he welcomes the idea of conducting investigations in ski racing and biathlon, similar to the one the commission conducted in athletics. On Thursday, the second part of the report of the WADA independent commission...
Russian President Vladimir Putin may be linked to the doping scandal after the 2012 Olympics, the Associated Press writes, citing a person who has studied the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which will be published on January 14. According to the agency, the author of the report is Dick Pound ...
Amid threats from the International Athletics Federation to exclude Russian athletes from the Olympic Games, The Times newspaper suggests recalling that the United States also hid the violations of its athletes. Victor Comte is the man behind the biggest thing in American athletics...
Yesterday's events could more than seriously affect Russia's position in world sports. Let's start in order. The scandal is so loud and with such unpredictable consequences that it should be carefully and point by point. The main thing: the independent commission of the World Doping Agency (WADA) recommended to deprive ...
The Commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommended the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to disqualify the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) for systematic violations related to the use of doping by athletes. In the event that the activities of the national athletics federation are invalidated, athletes from Russia will not ...
Former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diak, a lawyer and one of the association's doctors are suspected of accepting bribes from the All-Russian Athletics Federation for hiding the doping cases of Russian athletes. On Wednesday, Diak and other suspects were arrested in France ...