The Stepanov couple feels let down by the IOC and Thomas Bach and issues call for athletes to share their knowledge and accept their responsibility.

With all eyes on the Olympic events in Rio, Reporters Without Borders launch campaign aiming to inform the international community about the dangers Brazilian journalists experience along their work.

Race walker Alex Schwazer has lost an appeal against a provisional doping ban. He denies having knowingly doped and believes he has been set up.

The International Olympic Committee’s decision not to impose a unilateral ban on all Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics has been met with widespread criticism. Others are defending the decision calling it “natural justice”.

Russia will not be allowed to send athletes to the Paralympic Games after the International Paralympic Committee suspended Russia on Sunday in response to the country's state-sponsored doping program.

CAS has overruled the IOC’s decision that Russian athletes, who have served a doping sanction, will not be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio. The ruling may allow more than the current 271 approved Russian athletes to compete.

When the IOC abstained from issuing a general ban on Russian athletes after the McLaren report revealing a state supported doping system, the committee failed on its self-proclaimed mission “to protect clean athletes”. Thousands of clean athletes in sport’s global elite and sub-elite are even less protected than before.