In a major change in the handling of positive drug tests at the Olympics, the IOC is set to remove itself from the process and have a group of independent sports arbitrators rule on doping cases during the games in Rio de Janeiro, officials familiar with the plans told The…
Ethiopian-born Swedish runner Abeba Aregawi, the 2013 World 1500m champion, failed a drug test and has been suspended indefinitely, putting her Rio Olympic chances in jeopardy. Aregawi tested positive for an undisclosed substance in January, according to Swedish media. She is banned pending an investigation and analysis of a B…
With just more than five months until the Rio Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency finds itself in what its director general calls “a fragile time for clean sport worldwide.” Russia and Kenya are in danger of missing the Olympics — the former after being indefinitely banned after an independent commission uncovered…
