Doping Test

Author of the article: PARIS — The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Thursday approved reforms designed to give athletes more representation in the organization’s decision-making process. At its two-day board meeting, WADA decided to reform its athletes council whose 20 members will now be elected directly by sports professionals. The…

An illustration depicts an unexpectedly strong attraction between electrons in neighboring lattice sites within a 1D chain of copper oxide, or cuprate – a material that conducts electrical current with no loss at relatively high temperatures. A study led by Stanford, SLAC and Clemson discovered this unusually strong “nearest-neighbor” attraction…

Premiership-winning NRL star Michael Jennings has copped a massive ban for breaching the league’s anti-doping rules. The NRL has banned Michael Jennings for three years for breaching its anti-doping rules. While contracted with the Eels, Jennings was stood down during the 2020 finals series after returning a positive A-sample for…

3:02 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- American high jumper Erik Kynard will finally get his gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics after the IOC on Friday approved reallocating some results from those Games because of doping cases. Kynard's leap of 2.33 meters placed second behind Ivan Ukhov,…

No. 3 ranked featherweight contender Yair Rodriguez takes on former champion Max Holloway in the UFC on ESPN+ 55 main event on Saturday. During the event’s media day on Wednesday, Rodriguez was asked about his 2020 six-month suspension by anti-doping agency USADA for  failing to notify USADA of his whereabouts…

The TOS-doped graphene is highly conductive but absorbs very little of the infrared light in the resonator—a combination of properties that makes this material unique and promising for opto-electronic applications. Credit: Ipshita Datta, Lipson Nanophotonics Group, Columbia University The device you are currently reading this article on was born from…

Ecuadorian sprinter Alex Quiñónez has died at the age of 32. Quiñónez won his nation's first ever medal on the track at any major championships when he took bronze in the 200 metres at the Doha World Championships in 2019. Quiñónez was reportedly shot and killed outside of a shopping…

Oct 23 (Reuters) - British para-cyclist Erin McBride has been banned from all sport for three years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) for using the prohibited substance ostarine, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) said in a statement. McBride, a 23-year-old visually-impaired sprinter who joined British Cycling's Paralympic World Class Programme this year,…

A college basketball player hatched the idea after seeing a discrimination case nearly implode his own team, then wondering why nobody had done anything about it sooner. Ten years later, that player has developed the idea into a key tool for fixing a sports landscape teeming with cases of sexual…

Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk have both passed their final drug tests following their heavyweight title clash last month. Joshua was comfortably outboxed in front of over 63,000 fans at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium last month, losing his heavyweight titles to the unbeaten Usyk in his hometown. And the Voluntary…