Anti-doping

Play the Game and the Danish Institute for Sports Studies can now reveal the title and themes for this year’s Play the Game conference, taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from 28-31 October 2013.[more]

Only a few months after establishing the International Cycling Union Independent Commission (UCIIC) to look into the allegations set forward against the UCI in the USADA report, the UCI has disbanded the commission in exchange...[more]

The Independent commission set up by the UCI has decided to hold a public hearing on a truth and reconciliation process for witnesses. The news about the hearing comes after both WADA and USADA decided not to support the...[more]

The sanction length and criteria for the prohibited substance list will be in the centre of discussions in the lead up to the adoption of a new World Anti-Doping Code later this year, David Howman, Director General of WADA,...[more]

Last year’s Armstrong case shows that science alone cannot solve the doping problem in sport. Anti-doping organisations must put more focus on gathering evidence, David Howman urges in this first part of an extensive Play the...[more]

At a press conference held by newly formed organisation Change Cycling Now, Greg LeMond stated that he has been asked to and is ready to challenge Pat McQuaid as President of the UCI. “Yes, I’m ready. I have been asked and I...[more]

There have been talks about setting up a match-fixing’s counterpart to WADA. Can SportAccord be a key player is this with the UCI top in its council, Andreas Selliaas asks in this comment piece, arguing that there might be a...[more]

Five European newspapers have launched a manifesto calling for credible cycling and reforms, and an independent investigation by WADA into the UCI and its handling of the Armstrong collapse. The five newspapers –The Times,...[more]

The USADA has laid forward evidence that Lance Armstrong and his team USPS ran ”a massive team doping scheme, more extensive than any previously revealed in professional sports history.” In a statement on the outcome and the...[more]

A first draft of WADA’s revised anti-doping code has been published. A proposed rule change means that athletes caught doping will be excluded from the next Olympic event taking place after the end of the original...[more]