Fascinating article showcasing how FIFA boss Gianni Infantino transitioned from being seen as a reformist to the complete opposite... www.playthegame.org/news/infanti...

Contaminated supplement explanation due to doctor was accepted and proven... but accepted a 12 month suspension on the grounds that he should have been more careful. tennistourtalk.com/135799/facun...

Estonia seeks EU funding ban for IOC over Russia decision news.err.ee/1610073586/e...

South African junior rugby star tests positive for unspecified banned substance, reported here as an anabolic steroid. Latest of so many...although remember virtually no other countries properly test schoolboy rugby players. www.planetrugby.com/news/south-a...

Death, taxes... and Serena Williams complaining about the anti-doping whereabouts system. She is right, it is incredibly intrusive, but also made necessary by athletes deliberately avoiding tests to avoid failing them www.bbc.com/sport/tennis...

ARD story: "Brazil is the 'doping champion' of all World Cup participants": 120 doping cases in Brazilian football between 2013 and 2023...

Very interesting article - about payments for Olympians and other IOC reforms which partly tear up the legacy of Kirsty Coventry's Presidential predecessor, and chief campaigner, Thomas Bach

Founding WADA head Dick Pound as outspoken as ever on why no positive tests in men's World Cup since Diego Maradona in 1994. "I have no other explanation than that FIFA doesn't want World Cup to be discredited by doping cases." Latest ARD story... www.sportschau.de/fussball/fif...

Alex Schwazer, Beijing Olympic champion race walker who has spent a decade arguing a previous doping case was flawed and a set up, has tested positive for EPO aged 41 in both (!) urine and blood tests www.nada.de/service/news...

Very good article on the realities of not only FIFA, but international sport generally, especially this part...

2023 Wimbledon singles winner Marketa Vondrousova handed 4-year ban for refusing a doping test. Full written verdict not yet out but her stress/acute anxiety explanation not accepted. Rare failure for her lawyer Howard Jacobs, very successful in previous tennis cases www.itia.tennis/news/sanctio...

Clause ensuring that future US funding for WADA is dependent on an "independent audit" of all their activities being carried out is now signed into law by Trump. ARD story from yesterday... www.sportschau.de/investigativ...

Latest ARD Doping Editorial Team story: WADA hunts whistleblowers in China case. On the cryptically named ongoing "Operation Puncture" being prioritised by their investigations team www.sportschau.de/wada-hunts-w...

Interesting story. Ser Miang Ng is chair of both WADA (since 2020) and IOC (since 2014) Finance Committees. Will he be temporarily suspended from both while investigations take place?

Reminder of why whereabouts violations banned. WhatsApp messages from sprinter Blessing Okagbare showing she deliberately missed a drugs test -and took one whereabouts violation hit - as worried she may otherwise test positive as drugs still in system. She then tried to argue she didn't hear testers

Latest ARD report: "Stepanovs’ cry for help. Forgotten and facing an uncertain future". Tough emotional story about situation unchanged for over a decade www.sportschau.de/stepanovs-cr...

"Only when a PED scandal becomes large enough to affect the retail sales of the shoe companies or negatively impact title sponsorship PR will anything get done, says one long-time sport insider with experience in dealing with all entities involved." tonireavis.com/2025/07/17/b...

"Revelations of links between an Ineos Grenadiers trainer and a doctor involved in the Aderlass doping case." Another follow-up to ARD documentary www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur...

Article by Paul Kimmage in which he names the Team Sky/Ineos soigneur linked to convicted doping doctor Mark Schmidt following ARD documentary. He is still working at Tour de France this year for Ineos...who are refusing to comment www.independent.ie/sport/other-...

New ARD Doping Editorial film: "In the Slipstream": German blood doping Operation Aderlass ring accomplice a major figure in cycling - working with Team Ineos. Good work with colleagues including @hajoseppelt.bsky.social 1/ www.sportschau.de/doping/germa...

So 19.15 h ARD German TV a new episode of Doping Top Secret: "In the slipstream: Why doping suspicions continue to linger in cycling“. Two weeks before Tour de France: How easy is it to dope in cycling today? Who are the people behind the scenes? How credible are extreme achievements?

Day of shame: Qatari officials and their allies contest Petra Sörling's election and threaten delegates. With 104:102 votes, IOC member Sörling won the ITTF election against Khalil Al-Mohannadi. For now. 💰 💰 💰 Qatar will take the matter to court. www.the-inquisitor-magazine.com/day-of-shame...

How democratic elections are being prevented at WADA. Incumbent President Banka the only candidate in tomorrow's "election"... ARD story with Joerg Winterfeldt and @hajoseppelt.bsky.social www.sportschau.de/how-democrat...

Exclusive ARD Doping Editorial Team story on how names of 76 convicted German dopers over last 5 years have stayed secret due to data protection rules. Story with @hajoseppelt.bsky.social and other colleagues www.sportschau.de/names-withhe...

Finally starting to use bSky. ARD Doping Editorial Team story to be published later today exposing how names of many German athletes convicted of doping over last 5 years are not being revealed publicly. Potentially over 100, including a world champion in an Olympic sport...