by drugadmin | May 6, 2014 | Featured, News
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled Monday that a six-year doping ban on Jamaican 400-metre runner Dominique Blake was too harsh and should be cut to four and a half years. Blake tested positive for the banned substance methylhexanamine at the 2012 Jamaican...
by drugadmin | Nov 11, 2013 | Featured, News, South Africa, UK, USA
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. World sports leaders will converge at the Sandton Convention Centre for...
by drugadmin | Oct 30, 2013 | Featured, News, Track
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...
by drugadmin | Jul 15, 2013 | Featured, News, Track, USA
Sprint stars Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay have both returned positive drugs tests. Jamaican sprinters Powell, a former world record holder over 100m, and Sherone Simpson tested positive for the same banned stimulant, oxilofrine. Gay – the world’s fastest man...
by drugadmin | Jun 16, 2013 | Featured, News, Track
Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown returned a positive test at the May 4 Jamaica Invitational at the National Stadium. The sprinter, who has won 16 medals for Jamaica at the Olympic and World Championships level, turned up a diuretic in her A sample and was...
by drugadmin | Jun 12, 2013 | Europe, Featured, News
Anti-Doping Norway had its 10th anniversary celebration recently by hosting an international symposium on NADO International Cooperation. WADA’s President John Fahey and Director General David Howman shared their congratulations as keynote speakers at the June 11...