by drugadmin | Jul 19, 2014 | Featured, News, Track, UK
UK Athletics has today announced that 800m athlete Gareth Warburton has been provisionally suspended from all competition after being charged with committing anti-doping rule violations under UK Athletics Anti-Doping Rules (presence of prohibited substances). The...
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...