VTB Bank - the company at the centre of a major controversy involving the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - will continue as a sponsor of gymnastics in 2016, it has been announced today.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has claimed the organistation are fully committed to tackling doping in sport in Russia beyond just athletics following a letter sent by United States athletes.

Panasonic boss Kazuhiro Tsuga has been appointed as one of two new vice-presidents by Tokyo 2020 along with politician Tsutomu Tomioka, the State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Russia still has "much work" to do before it can have its ban lifted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), they have been warned. 

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says he "cannot imagine" the Rio 2016 Olympics taking place without his country's athletics team - because he wants to renew rivalries with the United States.

Michael Ashenden and Robin Parisotto, the scientists who claimed the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had failed to act upon suspicious blood samples, have each accepted the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission's dismissal of their conclusions.

Tokyo's victory in the race for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games has been implicated in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) corruption scandal after it was suggested a sponsorship payment agreed between Japan and the the world governing body may have encouraged some International Olympic Committee members to vote for it rather than rival Istanbul.  

As the athletics and wider sporting worlds prepare for today’s release in Munich of the “wow factor” report - the second part of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Independent Commission investigation, as trailed by its chairman Richard Pound - debate over what to do about dubious track and field records has intensified. 

Anyone with information on the alleged extortion of money by International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) officials is being urged to come forward by the governing body, after claims that athletes in Morocco and Turkey as well as Russia paid bribes in return for the covering-up of doping failures.

There is no longer a Russian representative on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) 38-member Foundation Board, with the country's Deputy Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov barred from participating until problems with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) are resolved.

Svein Arne Hansen, the President of European Athletics, says he doesn’t expect Russia’s ban will be lifted in time for the country to compete at next summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

International Fencing Federation (FIE) President Alisher Usmanov says that Russian fencers set to compete at Rio 2016 should be drugs-tested ahead of the Olympics - to remove any speculation about possible cheating. 

The former head of the scandal-hit Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has claimed that 40 per cent of drug test violations in the country have come in youth sports.

Australia's Olympic gold medallist Kylie Palmer has praised a decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to not appeal against the International Swimming Federation (FINA) doping panel’s decision into her case.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has moved to reaffirm, what it claims is its zero-tolerance policy towards anti-doping, stating it is 100 per cent committed to doing everything necessary to become the world’s cleanest sport, despite several leading figures in the sport having serious concerns about the effectiveness of its testing system.