Rappler's latest stories on sports doping
5 diplomatic rows looming over Russia's World Cup
Poisonings, doping, cyberattacks and conflicts in Syria and the Ukraine make for a tense World Cup in 2018

Salt and coffee used to hide tainted Russian doping samples
The former head of Moscow s main anti doping laboratory had to resort to desperate measures because of the potential time bomb of being found out by WADA

5 key points from new Russian doping report
Here are important points from the new Russian doping report published by investigator Richard McLaren

No Putin link to Russian doping, says investigator
Despite doping invesetigator Richard McLaren saying senior officials within Russia s ministry of sports actively supported the practice he found no links to president Vladimir Putin

Russia faces calls for total ban over doping
The IOC this week extended sanctions against Russia while the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF recently renewed its suspension of the country

Lance Armstrong says drug lies would have continued
Lance Armstrong says he would still be issuing strident denials if he hadn t been caught and then forced to admit to using performance enhancing drugs
