The World Conference on Doping in Sport starts tomorrow in Johannesburg, where it will consider a new anti-doping code and is expected to confirm the global doping policing body’s next president. [Read more…]
Archives for 2013
WADA goes to Jamaica
October 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Asafa Powell
WADA has gone to Jamaica in search of answers for that country’s anti-doping programmes.
Officials from the World Anti-Doping Agency are meeting with Jamaica’s Anti-Doping Commission (Jadco) after claims have been made in the gaps in the screening of athletes. [Read more…]
2010 Bronze for Armstrong
August 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Ottawa – The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced yesterday a lifetime ban effective August 2005 for shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus. Mikhnevich’s lifetime ban means that Canadian thrower Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, B.C., will be awarded the bronze medal from the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Armstrong finished fourth at the 2010 […]
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Powell and Gay test positive
July 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tyson Gay – Asafa Powell
Sprint stars Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay have both returned positive drugs tests. [Read more…]
Campbell-Brown tests for diuretic
June 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Veronica Campbell-Brown
Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown returned a positive test at the May 4 Jamaica Invitational at the National Stadium. [Read more…]
Anti-Doping Norway celebrates 10 years
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Anti-Doping Norway had its 10th anniversary celebration recently by hosting an international symposium on NADO International Cooperation. [Read more…]
Pumper commits 2nd offence
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Susanne Pumper
AUSTRIA – Distance athlete, Susanne Pumper, has been caught for the second time and has been suspended for eight years. All the Austrian’s results since 2008 have been scrapped. [Read more…]
Catching the Dopers
April 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Over the last couple of months, 2013, is proving to be a successful year in catching the dopers. The extent of the Russian ‘doping scandal’ becomes more evident as more and more cheaters are exposed via the retesting of samples from 2005. Before the London Olympics, there were murmurings about the performances of the Turkish […]
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Russians banned for doping
April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Former world and Olympic champions Svetlana Krivelyova and Olga Kuzenkova have been banned for two years each for failing drugs tests after their samples were re-examined, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Kuzenkova, 2004 Olympic champion in the women’s hammer, tested positive at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki, where she […]
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Blood-testing facility in Kenya
March 14, 2013 By 1 Comment
Blood-testing
Kenyan athletes will be tested by a new blood-testing programme after concerns about doping, according to the IAAF. [Read more…]
