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Former race walking champion Elena Lashmanova set to lose Olympic gold medal
Lashmanova, the 2012 Olympic champion, has been banned for two years for doping and is set to lose her gold medal, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Monday.
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Tearful Kamila Valieva skates again amid doping scandal
Valieva put herself in pole position to win a second Beijing Olympic title as she controversially returned to action on Tuesday despite failing a drugs test.
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Tearful Kamila Valieva 'tired emotionally' by doping scandal
Valieva was favourite for gold going into the Beijing Games, but a week into them it emerged she had tested positive in December for the banned substance trimetazidine, which boosts endurance
Commonwealth Games 2018: Silver medallist Seema Punia expresses disdain over questions about her training
Seema Punia once again finished behind World Champion Australian Dani Stevens in the Games and the reclusive athlete was quite simply exasperated when asked about where she had trained for the Games.
Commonwealth Games 2018: Mirabai Chanu will look to change colour of medal at Gold Coast event
The World Championship gold made Mirabai a name to reckon with and added credence to the belief that she was a bright medal prospect in events like Commonwealth Games,
Winter Olympics 2018: Thomas Bach denies Pyeongchang Games being 'tainted' by Russian doping scandal
Bach said the IOC had sent a "clear message" on Russia, who competed as "Olympic Athletes from Russia" and will now be unable to fly the national flag at Sunday's closing ceremony.
US Open 2017: Maria Sharapova labours past Timea Babos into next round; Nick Kyrgios crashes out
Former World No 1 Maria Sharapova rallied to reach the third round of the US Open on Wednesday while a right shoulder injury sent Australian 14th seed Nick Kyrgios packing.
IAAF World Athletics Championships 2017: Justin Gatlin's father asks hostile fans to lay off his son
Justin Gatlin's father has asked the fans to lay off his son after the 35-year-old was booed inside the London Stadium while accepting his 100 metres World Championships gold medal
Vladimir Putin accuses Wada of hypocrisy after Olympic athletes' data leak
President Vladimir Putin says the hack of Olympic athletes' data has cast a spotlight on a hypocritical decision to bar Russian athletes.
WADA slams Russian hackers for publishing confidential records of Venus Williams, Simone Biles
WADA slammed Russian hackers who breached its database and published confidential records of US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and Venus and Serena Williams.
Russia doping scandal: PM Dmitry Medvedev condemns Paralympics ban, calls ruling 'cynical'
PM Dmitry Medvedev said that CAS's decision to uphold a ban on Russia's participation in the Rio Paralympics because of a doping scandal, was cynical.
Rio Olympics 2016: Yelena Isinbayeva's comments unfortunate, say pole vault athletes
Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi hit back at banned Russian star Yelena Isinbayeva on Friday after striking Olympic pole vault gold.
Humans of Olympics: A glimpse at the spirit of the Rio Games
With the ‘Humans of Olympics’ series, we interact with volunteers, journalists, former athletes and the likes to capture the soul of the 2016 Rio Games
Humans of Olympics: Meet Ekaterina Mukhlynina, a Russian journalist in Rio
Going from news reporter to newsmaker isn’t fun. Mukhlynina isn't happy about how the Russian Olympics doping scandal has been handled by the world's sports governing bodies
Rio Olympics 2016: Russia doping scandal deepens as Richard McLaren accuses IOC of twisting his report
Anti-doping investigation leader Richard McLaren has accused the IOC of twisting the conclusions of his report on state-run substance abuse in Russia.
Narsingh Yadav's clean chit in doping case will be reviewed, says WADA
A day after wrestler Narsingh Yadav was exonerated of doping charges by the National Anti-doping Agency (NADA), its parent world body WADA said that it will review the case.
We always knew Narsingh Yadav was being victimised: Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today expressed happiness over Narsingh Yadav getting a clean chit in the doping scandal, saying he always knew the wrestler was being victimised.
If life were a movie, Narsingh Yadav would win gold in Rio: Twitter reacts to wrestler's clearance
Wrestler Narsingh Yadav's dream of representing India at the Rio Olympics could now come true after the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) on Monday gave him a clean chit in the doping case.
Narsingh Yadav cleared of doping charges by NADA, set to compete at Rio Olympics 2016
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), on Thursday, delivered its verdict in the ongoing Narsingh Yadav doping case and cleared the wrestler to participate in 2016 Rio Olympics.
Narsingh Yadav's father stages protest, demands high-level inquiry into doping scandal
The father of wrestler Narsingh Yadav and several of his supporters on Saturday staged a protest in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary office in Varanasi at Ravindrapuri, demanding a high-level inquiry into the doping scandal.