The World Anti-Doping Agency says it remains “deeply sceptical and worried” about Russia’s anti-doping practices as some of its athletes prepare to compete as neutrals at this year’s Olympics
Anders Besseberg has been accused of receiving various expensive gifts from Russia and, if convicted, he could face 10 years in prison in his home country, Norway
Russia has escaped expulsion from World Athletics – for now – after the country’s minister of sport stepped in at the last minute to guarantee it would pay a £5m fine for doping offences
The Russian oligarch has moved on from Arsenal to Everton but more intriguing is his decision to buy Pierre de Coubertin’s 1892 manifesto and donate it to the Olympic Museum
Russia has been warned that its athletes will be banned from the 2020 Olympics – unless it accepts senior officials lied to help a world champion escape a doping ban
Russia’s anti-doping agency has said it will appeal against the four-year doping sanctions barring the country from competing under its flag at top international sporting events
Few sporting nations are qualified to talk with certainty about the failings of others and, with London 2012 the most dope-ridden Olympics ever staged, Britain is not one of them
The five-time Olympic champion says the ban is a ‘blow to the reputation of clean athletes’ but adds that ‘clearly there was a basis’ for the punishment
