The New York Times, which last week reported on anti-doping rule violations during the Sochi Olympics, is reporting an investigation by the US Department of Justice. According to the newspaper, the prosecutor's office for the Eastern District of New York is engaged in the doping case, and the subject of the investigation may be ...
The American television channel CBS showed a new report on doping in Russian sports, which, among other things, reported that at least four Russian champions of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were using illegal drugs. Such data in an interview with CBS was provided by a former employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) ...
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 ...
Former executive director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Nikita Kamaev, who retired due to the scandal with Russian athletes, died suddenly at the age of 50. As reported, the cause of death of Kamaev, presumably, was a heart attack. Just ten days earlier, the chairman of the executive board passed away ...
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 ...
The Kremlin has stopped cooperation with the American PR company Ketchum, whose tasks included promoting Russia’s image in the West. The press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, explained the decision by cost-saving measures, as well as by the fact that the Kremlin considers image promotion pointless in the conditions of the “information war”...