Ian O’Riordan: Sport is war minus the shooting for Russia
Derval O’Rourke won a rare non-Russian medal in discredited 2006 World Indoors
Sport & Rights Alliance accuses IOC of acting irresponsibly in Peng Shuai case
The Olympic body is accused of prioritising 2022 Beijing games ahead of athlete safety
Senior Olympic official labels criticism of IOC call with Peng Shuai as ‘silly’
Dick Pound says no one else has been able to get in touch with Shuai since assault claims
Tokyo cornered into going ahead with Games – Olympic official
‘We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t’ says former judo world champion
Japan extends emergency Covid rules less than two months before Olympics
Expert warns that Games could even create its own variant strain of coronavirus
Brian O'Connor: Argument for playing on still stands – even if optics are poor
It is fair to ask whether or not elite sport should continue as the pandemic rages
Poll finds 80% of Japanese people want Tokyo Olympics to be scrapped
Delayed Games meant to start on July 23rd but city is currently in a state of emergency
IOC’s Dick Pound ‘can’t be certain’ Tokyo Olympics will go ahead
‘I can’t be certain because the elephant in the room would be the surges in the virus’
Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 due to outbreak
Shinzo Abe made the request during talks with IOC President Thomas Bach
Australia coach calls for age flexibility if Olympics postponed
Coach wants players who helped their country qualify to remain eligible in 2021
Tokyo 2020 looks destined to become Tokyo 2021
Going ahead with the Olympics this summer now seems unthinkable
Coronavirus playing havoc with athletes’ Tokyo preparations
Olympics News: Games set to go ahead in June, although some qualifying events hit
Japan insist Tokyo 2020 Olympics preparations progressing as scheduled
IOC’s Dick Pound had said coronavirus could lead to this summer’s Games being cancelled
Russian athletes escape blanket ban from IOC
International Olympic Committee leaves exclusion decision to sports federations
International Olympic Committee backs IAAF over Russian doping
‘This is in line with the IOC’s long-held zero-tolerance policy’
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko implicated in latest doping allegations
German broadcaster claim politician blocked the reporting of a doping offence by a top-flight footballer
Punishing Russia’s athletes harsh but only fair solution
Time for Wada and IOC to face reality and play hard ball with those not playing fair
Maria Sharapova not the only player ignoring Wada emails
Many players depend on their doctors or support staff to keep up to date on prohibited substances
Meldonium use widespread in tennis, says Wada’s Dick Pound
Pound suggested that tennis always knew many players were taking the drug
Doha’s bids for world athletics championships under investigation
Both 2017 and 2019 bids subject to IAAF ethics commission admits UK Athletics chief
Adidas to end IAAF sponsorship deal early, reports
Sportswear giant ending contract four years early in the wake of athletics doping scandal
Does Sebastian Coe care or is he merely in love with own loftiness?
IAAF chief might have got job he wanted but he’s lost all prestige and popularity
Wada looks at relationship between Diack and Putin in 2013
Nine Russian athletes withdrew from World Championships in Moscow
Wada report registers qualified vote of confidence in Coe
Council, including Coe, could not have been unaware of extent of doping, report finds
Wada report says Seb Coe must have been aware of doping
Pound: ‘I don’t want to lay the failures of an entire council at the feet of one individual’
WADA report to say corruption was embedded in IAAF
Details of investigation into Russian doping have been leaked to Associated Press
UK Athletics calls for world records to be reset due to doping crisis
The governing body for British athletics has published ‘A Manifesto for Clean Athletics’
Diarmaid Ferriter: Rot in athletics will take time to fix
The sad thing now is that I am not sure I would be bothered to wake my own children from slumber to witness an Olympic race
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko goes on offensive
Britain and the London 2012 Olympics have come underfire after the damning Wada report
Russian sports chief admits country has a doping problem that must be fixed
Mikhail Butov says that they are working to ‘change the mentality’ of coaches in Russia
Russia may be banned by weekend over doping
Sebastian Coe is set to chair Friday meeting of IAAF council ahead of decision
Main findings of Wada report on doping and corruption in Russian athletics
Ban from international competition recommended as 1,417 samples destroyed
Doping report could mean Russian athletes will miss Rio Games
Wada commission identifies corruption and bribery at highest levels of world athletics
Ian O’Riordan: Just how big is the iceberg under Russia doping?
Analysis: Implications far more widespead than Russia, and indeed athletics
Medical department chief in athletics corruption inquiry
Dr Gabriel Dollé joins former IAAF president Lamine Diack and Habib Cissé under formal investigation
Doping allegations a ‘joke’, says IAAF’s Lamine Diack
Outgoing president defends IAAF’s record on drug-testing as he prepares to step down
Report says UCI undermined cycling doping regulations
Colluded with Lance Armstrong for 10 years to protect his status as the sport’s personality
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