Russia has never positioned the Friendship Games as an alternative to other competitions, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said. Earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent a letter to the National Olympic Committees recommending that they refuse to participate in the Friendship Games. On June 22, IOC head Thomas Bach said that Russia was trying to organize "politicized sports competitions."

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is concerned over the 2024 Friendship Games taking place in Russia, WADA Director General Olivier Niggli said during the Foundation Board meeting. "Russia has the intention of potentially organizing a multi-sports event in 2024 that is called the Friendship Games", Niggli said. "This seems to be completely organized outside the framework of sport, to the extent that even the chairman or the president of the organizing committee would be the president of a federation that just lost its recognition from the sports movement".

This week, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) and Foundation Board (Board) met in Montreal, Canada, on 16 and 17 November 2023, respectively. The ExCo followed the recommendations from the CRC to allege three National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs) and one Major Event Organization (MEO) as non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and added two other NADOs to the ‘watchlist’. The three NADOs that the ExCo decided to allege as non-compliant with the Code are: Venezuela, Nigeria and Tunisia.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) plans to send the case against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after it disputed fresh sanctions issued last month.

Panam Sports has been staved off the threat of being declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code in a boost to the this year's Pan American Games, due to start in Santiago next Friday (October 20). 

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) vice-president Yang Yang has insisted that education should be made a priority for entourages as well as their athletes while speaking at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has launched an online education course targeted at athletes and coaches with hopes of competing at next year's Olympic Games in Paris.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has contacted athletics organisations in India to determine what action is going to be taken following a junior race where seven of eight starters failed to show up due to the presence of doping officials.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has posted the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Anti-Doping Rules that are set to be enforced for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Police raids across 10 warehouses in Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic have seized 550,000 packages of illegal substances, following an operation between law-enforcement bodies and the Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA).

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has defended the extension of the term limits for the top role here, claiming it represents a "small change" among wider reforms.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has concluded his visit to the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games here, where he visited the Athletes' Village to promote clean sport.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is set to hear the appeals from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), International Skating Union (ISU) and Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva in September.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has said that his confidence in the independence of Russia’s anti-doping system "remains very low".