The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued a scathing statement condemning America’s top sports substance testing authority on Wednesday, blasting it as “ironic and hypocritical” for demanding more testing after Chinese athletes were found to have ingested banned substances prior to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The China Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement on Thursday demanding the world force American athletes to take more tests for banned substances, an apparent respond to growing condemning of the Chinese Olympics team for allowing athletes who tested positive for banned substances compete in Paris.
History’s most decorated Olympian, swimmer Michael Phelps, told reporters competitive sports should have a “one and done” rule for athletes who test positive for banned substances – anyone testing positive should “never be allowed to come back.”
China’s state-run Global Times complained that Olympic doping tests are a form of “psychological” warfare against the nation’s athletes.
Chinese media blamed swimmer Zhang Yufei’s poor performance at the Olympics on “crazy smears” against its athletes after failed doping tests in 2021.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and relevant Utah officials effectively stop questioning the legitimacy of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probes into Chinese athletes, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on Wednesday.
Russia’s team for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, consists of just 15 people — a massive fall from the 330 athletes Russia sent to the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games, thanks to the international fallout from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued an impassioned condemnation on Monday of remarks by a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who accused the institution of being a “promoter of war, murder, and destruction” for ruling in favor of allowing Russian and Belarusian people to compete in its events.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Police investigating suspected doping by the Tour de France team Bahrain Victorious seized more than 450 capsules of unidentified substances at a house in Slovenia during raids across Europe, the European agency Eurojust said Friday.
Fifteen-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva, bizarrely permitted to continue competing in the disastrous Beijing Winter Olympics after failing a drug test, claimed through her lawyers on Tuesday that she might have drunk from a water glass contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication.
Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson believes that racism may have been behind her 2020 Tokyo Olympics ban for marijuana use.
15-year-old Russian figure skating champion Kamila Valieva was allowed to continue practicing for the Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday even though she tested positive for a banned substance.
A surge in the number of racehorse deaths in recent months was the focus of hearing in Congress this week, with representatives from the racing industry and animal advocates testifying about whether a federal law could help protect horses and riders and prevent future deaths.
Disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong, threw his support behind Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke on Saturday. Becoming yet another, in a long line of athletes who have thrown support behind the Democrat congressman.
Steelers kicker Chris Boswell scored 18 points against Cincinnati in last weekend’s game, making six perfect field goal attempts in a row. After the game, though, Boswell’s high ended as he found a “random” drug test notice taped to his locker back in Pittsburgh.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) expressed disgust with the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow the Russian team to compete at the Rio games despite evidence of systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs.
The International Association of Athletics Federations banned Russia’s track and field team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a result of extensive doping and corruption charges.
With new allegations of Russian athletes engaging in massive doping during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, U.S. Olympians are renewing their call for a thorough investigation and are decrying the lax anti-doping rules for athletes of other countries saying tougher U.S. laws put U.S. competitors at a disadvantage.
Kenya’s was declared “non-compliant” with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s rules, putting the African nation’s athletes on notice that they may end up ineligible for the Summer Olympics coming up in Rio this year.
The British government has ordered an inquiry into the way the country’s anti-doping agency handled allegations that a British doctor prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to leading sports people. The Sunday Times reported that Dr Mark Bonar prescribed banned drugs to
For 11 years Adidas sportswear has been one of the biggest supporters of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). But that relationship has just come to an abrupt end, a direct result, it is said, of the IAAF’s developing doping and corruption scandal.
GENEVA (Reuters) – An international anti-doping commission recommended on Monday that the Russian Athletics Federation be banned from the sport over widespread doping offences – a move that could see the powerhouse Russian team miss next year’s Rio Olympics. The
In a meeting Friday with a large group of representatives of the Italian Tennis Federation, Pope Francis interjected strong words against doping in his otherwise positive message.
Lance Armstrong defended his doping in the 1990s by asserting that many bicyclists adopted the practice, and he would do it again if given the chance.
