World anti-doping chiefs insisted on Tuesday that all team sports, without exception, must play by rules obliging some athletes to announce their whereabouts for out-of-competition testing. "There has been no exception for any federation," said World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) Director General Alan Howell.

World Anti-Doping Agency chiefs offered their condolences Tuesday following the death of Jacques de Ceaurriz, a leading light in the fight against doping in sport. The head of the Chatenay-Malabry laboratory near Paris, De Ceaurriz's death at the age of 60 on Tuesday was announced by France's national anti-doping agency, the AFLD.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound said Thursday that they had settled a lawsuit over allegedly injurious comments by Pound. The ICU, its former president Hein Verbruggen and Pound released a joint statement closing the litigation in a Swiss court over comments by the outspoken Canadian founding head of WADA.

The World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) are to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to demand tougher penalties against suspended Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse, WADA's legal director told AFP on Wednesday. Malisse and Wickmayer, the US Open semi-finalist, were last month both suspended by the Flemish Doping Tribunal (VDT) for one year for failing to comply with the "whereabouts" rule, which ensures that they are available for out-of competition testing.

Born out of the fallout from the Festina cycling scandal, the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) has in the past decade managed to bring harmony into the fight against drugs cheats. But while the global anti-doping organisation has streamlined rules for athletes regardless of their discipline and nationality it is still struggling to get to grips with the intricacies of the fight against doping.

Over 100 European sports officials and experts from the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency and other organisations on Thursday opened a two-day conference in Greece on...

Five Olympic sports federations as well as a host of nations were on Sunday handed six more months by WADA to sign up for the world anti-doping programme despite the objections of hardliners.

ATHENS, September 1, 2008 (AFP) - Over a dozen Greek athletes who failed doping tests prior to and during last month's Beijing Olympics thought a rare anabolic steroid would help them elude tests, a leading anti-doping expert said Monday.

World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called for more support from the World Anti Doping Agency ...