The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) warned Russia not to interfere in drug-testing in the country and asked Wednesday that a year-old vacancy at the top of the national anti-doping body be filled. WADA president Witold Banka met with Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin in Turkey on Wednesday for talks on…
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (Wada) compliance review committee (CRC) recommended Russian Federation be banned from hosting and competing in major global events on Monday. RUSADA was suspended by WADA in November 2015 in the wake of accusations of widespread corruption and state-sponsored doping. READ MORE
Nike Oregon Project coach Alberto Salazar and a Houston endocrinologist who had treated athletes belonging to the Portland-based training group, have been banned for four years for doping violations. The decision was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and begins immediately. It is the result of a four-year investigation.…
In 2015, the former head of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, exposed Russia’s tampering of blood and urine samples to cover up their use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Rodchenkov, who resigned from his position after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accused him of tampering with more than 1,400 samples…
MOSCOW (AP) — The Moscow laboratory that was shut down in 2015 following doping cover-ups has quietly become a crucial part of the world’s drug-testing system once again. Under an often-overlooked provision in anti-doping rules, the lab handled 1,763 blood samples last year from athletes, including foreign tennis stars, and…
The International Olympic Committee has stripped 10 athletes of medals from the 2008 Olympics after banned substances were found during retests of samples from the games. The IOC says the 10, nine of whom hail from former Soviet nations, had all tested positive for various steroids. Read More
Yelena Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic pole vault champion, has suffered another blow in her attempts to compete in Rio after athletics’ world governing body rejected all but one appeal from Russian athletes to line up as ‘neutrals’ in Brazil. Long jumper Darya Klishina, who trains in Florida, was the only…
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…
