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Sports court to start Russian Olympic doping appeals Monday

LAUSANNE - Emirates voice

The Court of Arbitration of Sport will begin appeals hearings on Monday for 39 Russian athletes disqualified from the 2014 Sochi Winter Games for doping and banned for life from the Olympics. Two key witnesses, Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov and World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren, will testify by video or telephone link to the closed-door hearings, CAS said in aRead more

Sports court to start Russian Olympic doping appeals Monday

LAUSANNE - Emiratesvoice

IOC to host North Korea 2018 Games talks 'midweek'

Lausanne - Emiratesvoice

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach will host talks over North Korea's possible participation in the Winter Olympics, which are being staged in South Korea, in "the middle of the week," a source told AFP on Sunday. Discussions will be held at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne between Bach and Chang Ung, a member of the North Korean Olympic body,Read more

Russia faces Winter Games ban

Lausanne - Emirates Voice

Russia was banned Tuesday from the 2018 Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee over its state-orchestrated doping programme, but clean Russian athletes will be allowed to compete under an Olympic flag. The sanction was the toughest ever levelled by the IOC for drug cheating and came just 65 days ahead of the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In announcingRead more

IOC to rule on Russia's 2018 Games fate

Lausanne - Emirates Voice

Doping-tainted Russia's 2018 Winter Olympics participation will be decided when the International Olympic Committee meets from Tuesday, in one of the weightiest decisions ever faced by the Olympic movement. The build-up to the high-stakes summit in Lausanne just 66 days before the start of the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has been dominated by an almost daily drip of negative news -- mostlyRead more

Doping increases Olympic weightlifting threat

Lausanne - Arab Today

Weightlifting is buckling under the burden of a drug-taking culture that has made it one of the most notorious Olympic events. The sport that first appeared at the Olympics in 1896 accounted for 48 of the 104 positive tests detected in new analyses on samples from the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 in London. It could get worse as notRead more

Anti doping agency hits back at Russia 'manipulation'

Lausanne - Arab Today

The World Anti-Doping Agency hit back Friday at Russia's claims of "manipulation" by the global body and warned that Russia is still not at international doping norms. WADA was infuriated after Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov told an International Olympic Committee meeting this week that the drug agency was "an instrument for manipulation" as he pleaded for Russia's dopingRead more

IOC threatens legal action against Kuwait

Lausanne - Arab Today

The International Olympic Committee has threatened legal action against a government-appointed Olympic committee in Kuwait that has been suspended by many international federations. The IOC also said in a letter, obtained by AFP, that it could seek damages over the Kuwait committee's unauthorised use of the Olympic name. The IOC, football body FIFA and other federations suspended Kuwait in OctoberRead more

Diplomats meet in fresh bid to halt Syria bloodshed

Lausanne - Arab Today

Top diplomats were to meet in Switzerland Saturday in a fresh push to revive a ceasefire in Syria, after pro-government forces intensified their bombardment of the battered city of Aleppo. Since the collapse of a truce last month, Aleppo has been ravaged by a major onslaught by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia, which has promptedRead more

High-stakes summit eyes anti-doping overhaul

Lausanne - Arab Today

Top figures in world sport met Saturday in a bid to overhaul the global fight against doping, as the Olympic movement aims to recover from a damaging crisis triggered by Russian cheating. Relations between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the body it created to promote clean competition, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), hit historic lows ahead of this summer'sRead more