WADA's 'serious concern' after CAS overturns Russian life bans

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday dismissed 47 appeals from Russian athletes and coaches to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, putting an end to a long saga over their Olympic fate. The Russians had appealed their exclusion from ...

IMAGE: Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Thursday that Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been found guilty of an anti-doping violation after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium. CAS said that the Olympic Athletes from Russia mixed doubles curling team, who won bronze at the Games, had been disqualified from the competition. The athlete, who won the medal with his wife, had ...

All 45 Russian athletes and two coaches have lost their appeals against the International Olympic Committee's decision to bar them from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The decision was announced by the Court of ...

Forty-seven Russians implicated in doping lost a last-minute court bid to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony.The applicants, who included Korean-born speed skater Victor An, had asked the Court of ...

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field   IMAGE: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images via Reuters Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is ready to drop established players for the FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday after the Old Trafford club's weekend defeat by Premier League bottom side West Bromwich Albion. United suffered a shock 1-0 home loss to West Brom on Sunday, handing the title to ...

Caster Semenya leaves the Commonwealth Games convinced she can replicate the middle distance double she achieved on the Gold Coast at next years world championships and the Tokyo Olympics - and maybe even extending her repertoire further beyond that. Brushing ...

'Whether he stays at the end of this season, I could not make a case. I am not sure anyone can. This development of mediocrity has to be arrested.' IMAGE: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger reacts. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright has launched a scathing attack on the club's manager Arsene Wenger, saying he could not make a case for the Frenchman to extend his reign beyond this season.Arsenal lie 27 points behind leaders Manchester City in sixth position and ...

No official complaints about high winds IMAGE: A volunteer poses for a photo after the Ladies' Giant Slalom was postponed due to strong winds. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images  The International Ski Federation (FIS) has refuted claims that athletes' complaints had been ignored in the build-up to the controversial women's snowboard slopestyle Olympic final on Monday. Several athletes, including Austrian Anna Gasser and Norway's Silje Norendal, complained after the final that ...

Anti-NKorea protesters burn flags before opening ceremony IMAGE: Police try to extinguish burnt portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an anti-North Korea protest before the opening ceremony for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Friday. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters Hundreds of anti-North Korea protesters scuffled with riot police outside the Winter Olympics stadium in South Korea on Friday, hours before two of the North's most senior officials ...