The United States passed an anti-doping law named after a Russian informant

Previously, the document was approved by the House of Representatives and sent to President Trump for signature, writes Voice of America. The US Senate has approved a bill that would allow US legal officials to prosecute individuals involved in doping violations at international events involving US athletes...

Substitution of doping samples and falsification of data: Russia may remain outside of international sports

Russia again wants to be barred from major sporting events due to doping. The country could lose the FIFA World Cup. The "Compliance Committee" of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on November 25 recommended to suspend Russian athletes from Olympiads and World Championships for four years, as well as to deprive ...

NYT has published excerpts from the diary of the Russian informant WADA

The chemist kept a diary for most of his life. He used to write down every day where he went, who he talked to and what he ate. At the beginning of each entry, he indicates his blood pressure. His two hardcover diaries with handwritten notes made ...

FBI suspects Russian sports agent and organizers of the New York Marathon in collusion

US law enforcement agencies are developing Russian sports agent Andrei Baranov. According to The New York Times, he is suspected of trying to conspire with the organizers of the New York Marathon. Allegedly, Baranov, using corruption ties and bribes, is trying to get Russians to participate in the marathon, despite ...

The only Russian athlete was suspended from participation in the Olympics-2016

Long jumper Daria Klishina, who was the only representative of the Russian national athletics team, admitted to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, was suspended from performing at the 2016 Games. The decision to remove the athlete was made on August 13 based on new information received by the IAAF, writes ...

Almost a third of the Russian team was suspended from participation in the Olympiad

On the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which will take place on Friday, the International Olympic Committee published the composition of the Russian team - 276 people whom a special commission of the organization allowed to participate in the Games. At the same time, more than 100 athletes were left out of the team because...

Maria Sharapova entered Harvard

Former first racket of the world Russian Maria Sharapova will be trained at Harvard Business School. She announced this on her Twitter microblog. “I'm not sure how it happened, but hello Harvard! I wish I could start the program as soon as possible! ”Wrote the tennis player. As a reminder, June 8, 2016 ...

Russia hired an American PR agency to hush up a doping scandal

Russia has hired the Burson-Marsteller PR agency to mitigate the effects of the doping scandal, the American radio station Public National Radio reported. Former partner of the company Jean Grabowski was invited to the air of the radio station. When asked how Burson-Marsteller will deal with the smoothing out of the scandal, he replied: “I do not know what the strategy is ...

Sharapova was excluded from the list of participants in the Grand Slam tournament in Paris

The fate of the Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who was previously suspended from the competition after a positive doping test, is still unclear. After the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) relaxed the rules regarding the use of meldonium, which was found in Sharapova's body, the tennis player from Russia was included ...

Former fifth racket of the world Anna Chakvetadze: Sharapova is a business, it’s too early to cross

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 ...

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