Several athletes who competed in the world championships in August have tested positive for the new designer steroid THG.
Although the change will have no immediate effect on current bans on the Russian federations for athletics, weightlifting and paralympics, it opens the door for their return, following the reinstatement of the Russian Olympic Committee after the country was banned from this year's Winter Games in South Korea.
A round-up of all the results from the 16th World Athletic Championships in London
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
American Ashton Eaton retained the decathlon world title on Saturday and broke his own world record with a score of 9,045 points.
It is the third time Genzebe Dibaba, 25, has broken a world record in Stockholm, having previously set new marks for the 3,000 and 5,000 metres at the Ericsson Globe Arena in the Swedish capital
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
India's newly-appointed Athletics High Performance Director Derek Boosey feels the country has a realistic chance of winning an elusive track-and-field medal in the 2020 Olympics provided the focus is on 'talented' juniors.
Barred from international competition, Russia is training its athletes at a series of special domestic tournaments and banking on hopes a doping ban will be lifted in time for this year's Rio Olympics.
Mariya Kuchina won thewomen's high jump with a clearance of 2.01 metres on Saturday to become Russia's second gold medallist at this world championships. The 22-year-old from Moscow had a blemish-free card to that height, her lifetime best performance.
The 19-year-old Indian cleared 66.84 metres in the javelin throw to make the grade in the IAAF World Junior Championships.
The 4 x 400m quartet of Manjit Kaur, K M Beenamol, Rajwinder Kaur and Chitra K Soman clocked three minutes, 27.35 seconds in the second leg of the 2004 Asian Grand Prix Athletics Series in Colombo.
The shot put competition for both men and women would take place in Olympia before the start of the main athletics programme
Asked to board the flight for the Asian Games despite some family members reportedly missing in the wake of the Kerala floods, debutant long-jumper M Sreeshankar said he can finally focus on the job at hand after his grandfather and uncle were traced.
India's long jump ace's optimism springs from consistency in her jumps.
The 27-year-old star athlete managed a jump of only 6.46m at the Japan Grand Prix in Osaka.
The world number seven long jumper plans to compete in 10-12 events in her build up to the Athens Olympics in August.
The Indian will be up against Olympic champion Tatyana Lebedeva on Friday, in her season opener, the IAAF Super Athletics Grand Prix in Doha.
Usain Bolt won his third gold medal of the 14th IAAF World Championships on Sunday when he led Jamaica to the gold in the 4 x100 metres relay.
The Russian pole vaulter won her event at the IAAF super Grand Prix but failed to break the world record.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Top athletics coach Alberto Salazar and US Olympic silver medallist Galen Rupp have denied any wrongdoing after a BBC documentary accused them of violating anti-doping rules.
Russian track and field athletes look certain to miss out on this year's world championships after an IAAF task force recommended on Monday that the country's ban should run until November.
David Rudisha's defence of his world 800 metres title in Moscow next month is in doubt because of a knee injury, the Kenyan's coach said on Wednesday.
A Japanese official who led the successful bid for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics said on Wednesday the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) plans to investigate the bidding.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is to investigate Russian doping allegations relating to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, WADA said on Tuesday.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favour of USA Track & Field regarding 13 positive US dope tests after the US body refused to name the athletes who failed the tests.
The US sprinter burned the track in 10.96 seconds in the first semi-final.
The 25-year-old star touched a distance of 6.49 metres to finish second in the Stockholm IAAF Super Grand Prix tournament.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Frisday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
India's hopes of a medal in the women's 3000m steeplechase were dashed on Sunday after Bahrain's Ruth Jebet was reinstated as the gold medal-winner following a review, a decision which the Indian contingent plans to challenge in front of "higher authorities".
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