The International Olympic Committee has retested 454 anti-doping samples taken from athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, catching 31 cheats from six different sports and 12 countries.

Almost seven years have passed, but Olive Loughnane can still see the way Olga Kaniskina looked at her in Berlin. 

Organisers of the 2017 World Championships in London are in talks with athletics’ world governing body about dropping ‘IAAF’ from the event’s branding.

Sebastian Coe has received crucial backing to remain as IAAF president despite another damning report on athletics’ doping scandal and admitting that he leads a “failed organisation”.

IAAF president Sebastian Coe insists he does not underestimate the seriousness of the doping and corruption crisis engulfing athletics’ world governing body.

The full scale of corruption involving senior IAAF officials has been laid bare after three of athletics’ leading figures were handed lifetime bans for blackmail and covering up positive drugs tests.

After the worst week in the history of the sport, IAAF president Seb Coe faces the unenviable task of guiding athletics through crisis and ending the doping culture, writes Cathal Dennehy.

The International Olympic Committee threatened punishments for those proven to have violated doping rules and it seems heads have started to roll.

Ciarán Ó Lionáird has called for increased funding for anti-doping agencies around the world in the wake of yesterday’s report from the World Anti-Doping Agency, which shed light on the extent of the doping problem in athletics.

The Ireland athletics team manager fears the unfolding doping and corruption scandal may extend beyond Russia, who were accused yesterday of “sabotaging” the London Games.

Sebastian Coe has stressed his determination to “rebuild and repair” athletics by leading the sport through the “dark days” of the crisis currently engulfing it.

Outgoing athletics chief Lamine Diack admits his sport is in crisis because of the doping allegations leveled at it over the last month, but still believes “99%” of athletes are clean.

Sonia O’Sullivan narrowly missed out being elected to the IAAF Council on the day Sebastian Coe was elected the new president of the international athletics governing body.

FROM an Irish perspective, there is bitter irony in the fact that China is where former Olympic 1,500m champion Sebastian Coe won the race to be president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the body that governs world athletics.

The outgoing president of international athletics has defended the organisation’s record on drug-testing and called the latest dopingallegations “a joke”.

A new doping scandal involving Russian athletes has erupted after the IAAF confirmed it is investigating allegations race walker Elena Lashmanova, who won gold at the London Olympics, took part in a race in December despite being subject to a two-year doping ban.

The son of IAAF president Lamine Diack has stepped down from his activities with athletics’ world governing body pending an investigation into allegations of a cover-up of doping in Russia.

IAAF president Lamine Diack has raised the prospect of Russia’s athletics chief withdrawing from his duties until an investigation into allegations of systematic doping and cover-ups is concluded.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge could face tricky questions about Russia’s anti-gay laws when he makes an appearance on the eve of the World Athletics Championships in Moscow today.

Athletics’ world governing body will hand four-year bans to those caught doping from 2015 — a move president Lamine Diack hopes will help in the never-ending fight with drug cheats.

UCI president Pat McQuaid has dismissed Greg LeMond’s challenge to his authority as “populist” and destined to fail.

Moroccan gold medal track prospect Mariem Alaoui Selsouli has been thrown out of the Olympic Games after failing a drugs test for the second time in her career.

IAAF president Lamine Diack confirmed today that he had been informed of a positive drugs test by a leading athlete.

Caster Semenya is expected to finally learn whether she can resume her athletics career when South Africa’s Minister of Sport and Recreation hosts a press conference in Johannesburg this afternoon.

International Association of Athletics Federations president Lamine Diack today confirmed there will be a resolution to the gender row surrounding Caster Semenya by the end of June.

LONDON will have to wait to discover whether it will be given a Golden League meeting in a planned restructuring of the series, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) revealed yesterday.

The IAAF have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the suspensions handed down by the All Russian Athletic Federation to seven athletes.

ATHLETICS Ireland chiefs confirmed yesterday that the Chair of High Performance, Patsy McGonagle is under investigation — as revealed in yesterday’s Irish Examiner.

KELLY Sotherton hopes the career of heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska is over after the Ukrainian failed a drugs test for the second time.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned a ban on double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius competing against able-bodied athletes – allowing him to immediately run in all International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) sanctioned events.

IAAF president Lamine Diack believes disgraced American sprinter Marion Jones will be remembered as “one of the biggest frauds in sporting history”.

Lamine Diack, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, is facing open rebellion over his leadership.

Former world record holder Tim Montgomery has been stripped of his American 100 metres record following his two-year drug suspension handed down by the Court of Arbitration.

CAROLINA KLUFT has played down reports she is suffering from a knee injury ahead of what promises to be the best heptathlon competition in history.

Athletes have been warned there will be nowhere to hide if they are using illegal drugs at the World Championship as organisers prepare to put the most “aggressive” of detection strategies into practice.

ATHLETICS chiefs have admitted the missed drugs test debacle of Greek sprint duo Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou could rumble on until December.

The long-running missed drugs test saga of Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou should take a decisive step forward on Wednesday when they finally face their IOC inquisitors.