The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Tuesday that Olympic refugee team runner Anjelina Nadai Lohalith has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for Trimetazidine, Agence France-Presse reports. The banned substance, usually used to prevent and treat the symptoms of angina, is the same that put 23 Chinese swimmers in the spotlight recently.

With three months to go before the Olympic Games, the problem of unlicensed taxis is one of the main challenges facing the millions of spectators who will be travelling to Paris. Despite increased signage and warnings about these unlicensed drivers, who may charge exorbitant fares, the phenomenon persists, as does the cat-and-mouse game with the police.

France has rejected the accreditation applications of more than 20 Russian citizens who wanted to go to Paris as volunteers during the upcoming Summer Olympics, one of the Russian accreditation applicants told TASS after receiving a written rejection from the Paris 2024 Organising Committee.

After defeat to Jiri Lehecka in his final Madrid Open at La Caja Magica, Rafael Nadal was treated to a farewell ceremony featuring highlights of his five titles in the Spanish capital with the home fans cheering his name late into the night.

Members of the USA national fencing team have issued a statement via international athletes advocacy group Global Athlete expressing their dismay at the recent decision by their national governing body, USA Fencing, to impose  "weak and futile" suspensions on two referees.

The Workers Party of Britain (WPB) is fielding Panesar, who played 50 Tests for England between 2006 and 2013, as one of 200 candidates in the capital. He will be standing in the Ealing Southall constituency.

Move United, the USA’s leading organisation in community-based sports and recreation for individuals with disabilities, hosted its annual Education Conference from 22-24 April.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has revealed a partnership with Miami Dade College, a prestigious educational institution in the United States. 

In order to implement business strategies and major projects, both organisations have signed a long-term cooperation agreement. The intention is to increase the opportunities for running at both elite and popular levels. The aim is clear: to get more people on the track and to improve the performance of those who are already on the track.

Russia topped the medal table at the EUBC Elite European Boxing Championships with 11 golds, but at least one of them was obtained in controversial circumstances. Tarkhan Idigov denied two-time world and European silver medallist Lasha Guruli another continental title by winning the men's 67kg final, with the Georgian corner withdrawing their man after two rounds.

Just about everything came out golden for Russia in the European Amateur Boxing Championships. Fans did have to sing along the winner’s anthem because of an alleged technical error, but that was it for its boxers in Belgrade, where they took 11 wins from the host country, who totalled only four.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published a fact sheet outlining the procedures it undertook to reach the decision that the 23 Chinese swimmers, who had tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) in early 2021, would not face suspensions.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin conceived the Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century as a revival of the competition that had brought glory to ancient Greece, with an increasingly forgotten double motive: to defend sport against political interests and to celebrate amateurism.