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 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 Russian Olympic Committee confirmed receipt of documents from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) notifying that 2008 Russian athletes tested positive for doping samples taken during the 14 Beijing Olympic Games. Now Russia, as the president had previously warned ...

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) ...