Doping Test

VALERIA Bhunu, Zimbabwe's highest-ranked female tennis player, has been slapped with a lengthy ban by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after a banned substance, Mesterolone was found in an out-of-competition sample. The 27-year-old Cape Town-based tennis player revealed in a statement on social media that she has been banned until…

Bryan Fogel’s work was cut out for him when he chose to direct a follow-up to Icarus, his 2017 deep dive into sports doping and the elaborate system of cheating among Russian Olympians. That film closed with a cliff-hanger. Having turned whistleblower mid-film, Grigory Rodchenkov, the architect of the state-sanctioned…

Commonwealth Games - Athletics - Women's 4 x 100m Relay - Final - Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, Britain - August 7, 2022 Nigeria's Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha celebrates after winning gold REUTERS/Phil Noble Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSept 3 (Reuters) - Nigerian sprinter Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha, who won gold…

Nigerian sprinter Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha, who won gold in the 4x100m relay at this year's Commonwealth Games, has been provisionally suspended for the use of banned substances, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Saturday. Nwokocha, 21, ran the anchor leg in Birmingham last month as Nigeria beat England and…

Dana White has routinely praised the United States Anti-Doping Agency over the years, but he was not happy to hear about a visit it made to Paulo Costa just hours before he was set to weigh-in for his fight against Luke Rockhold at UFC 278. The incident occurred on Friday…

Paulo Costa is blasting USADA for sending agents to his hotel room at 6am for drug tests. USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) is recognized by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as the official, independent anti-doping agency for the UFC. UFC 278 takes place tomorrow, Saturday, August 20th at the Vivint…

San Diego Padres superstar Fernando Tatis Jr has offered a bizarre reason for testing positive to a performance-enhancing substance. Tatis was hit with a massive 80-game suspension for violating the Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The 23-year-old claimed he tested positive for banned substance Clostebol as…

Scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have investigated gallium-doping in p-type silicon wafers as a route to better performance. Testing these specially produced p-type wafers in TOPCon and heterojunction cell architectures, which several major PV cell manufacturers are gearing up to produce on more expensive n-type…

Scientists in Australia have looked at how gettering technologies could improve passivating contacts based on polysilicon and silicon monoxide (SiOx) for tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cells. They found that the gettering strength of the P-doped poly mainly depends on the doping concentration. August 5, 2022 Emiliano Bellini Researchers…

Around the time of the "Breaking 2" experiment where Nike pulled out all the stops to see if an athlete could break the 2 hour marathon barrier, there was a huge leap in shoe R&D and Nike developed a new style of running shoe that utilized a carbon plate and…