New allegations of Russian medal winners at the Sochi Olympics being on steroids further damage Russia’s image as a sporting nation on the way to the Rio Olympics. WADA calls the new information “a real cause for concern”.

The second report from WADA’s Independent Commission discloses extensive corruption, nepotism and abuse of power in the IAAF as well as an undermining of the anti-doping structure in the association.

WADA’s independent report on doping in athletics says that Russia should be banned from international competition for upholding a state-supported doping system.

Comment: Will the newly elected president of the International Athletics Federation, Sebastian Coe, be able to bring the sport back on its feet? Andreas Selliaas analyses Coe’s background and comments on his mounting challenges.

In December 2014, revelations about widespread doping and cover-up in Russian and international athletics, led both WADA and the IAAF to initiate investigations. The journalist behind the documentary as well as the two Russians who blew the whistle on the doping practices will share their story at Play the Game 2015.

This weekend signalled a temporary halt in the growing trend to move the world's largest sports events away from Western countries when London beat Doha to host the World Athletics Championships in 2017, and the Gold Coast in Australia was preferred as host for the Commonwealth Games in 2018 over Hambantota in Sri Lanka.

Bribes from the former ISL marketing company did not only go to FIFA officials. At the moment, the IOC is investigating whether the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Lamine Diack, also took bribes from the now defunct Swiss company when it had the exclusive marketing contract for the IAAF Championships.

As one of the consequences of the Cold War from the end of World War II and up to 1989, the competition on the battlefield of sport became fiercer and fiercer, and at some point rumours started circulating in the west about female athletes, mainly from the eastern countries, who were not THAT female. Stories were told about specific athletes who never undressed together with other athletes, but came directly from their hotel, and went straight back for a shower, and of athletes who had a number of male features as for example a fast growing beard.