Seven "innovative" research projects are being funded and supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to illustrate its commitment to the fight against doping, the organisation has claimed.

The number of positive results returned by worldwide anti-doping activity in 2014 was 10 per cent down on the previous year despite an increase in tests carried out, according to figures released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

FIFA's Ethics Committee has recommended current President Sepp Blatter be suspended for 90 days, according to a long-term adviser of the Swiss Klaus Stöhlker.

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has held a two-day conference alongside the World Anti-Doping Agency aimed at improving education and developing further initiatives to help combat doping in sport.

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC) with the aim of helping to track and eliminate the illegal manufacture and supply of Performance-Enhancing Drugs (PEDs).

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will co-host the 2015 “International Athlete Forum for 2020” with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA), it has been announced.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Triathlon Union (ITU) have launched the second installment of WADA’s Legacy Outreach Programme series at this week's World Triathlon Grand Final in Chicago.

The circumstances which led to Britain's world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe believing she had to go public to clear her name because she had been personally implicated in a United Kingdom  Parliamentary Select Committee hearing have been described as “very unfortunate” by David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

As someone who likes to be on the front foot in terms of putting it to sporting bodies about their governance practices and the other big issues facing world sport, I didn’t expect to receive an invitation to speak at a conference put on by the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS).

There is a cruel irony in the fact that an investigation alleging widespread doping abuse in athletics, prompted at least in part by laudable motives, should have turned into a story about an athlete who is innocent of any such charge.

A prominent anti-doping expert claimed at a British Parliamentary hearing here today the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has done less to tackle drugs problems than the International Cycling Union (UCI).

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has hailed international commitment to tackling sporting drugs problems after Djibouti became the fifth nation in the last three months to sign the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) International Convention against Doping in Sport.

London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel will hold urgent talks in Beijing this week with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) following the reinstatement of self-confessed drugs cheat Liliya Shobukhova.

Russia's Liliya Shobukhova, officially stripped of her three Chicago and two London Marathon titles earlier this month, is free to compete again after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) agreed to support a seven-month reduction in the length of her suspension.

No rights to introduce bans for nations are held by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the body has clarified, although the compliance of all signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code will be a "priority item" on the agenda of the next Foundation Board meeting to be held in November.