Doping Test

Fencers Inna Deriglazova, Adelina Zagidullina, Larisa Korobeynikova and Marta Martyanova celebrate with their gold medals on Thursday after winning the women's team foil. The Russian athletes competed under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee. Carl Recine/Reuters On Thursday night, as the Russian women’s fencing team came out for their…

It would be an understatement to suggest Colby Covington is outspoken. The no. 1 contender in the welterweight division, who will face division champion Kamaru Usman in a rematch for the UFC’s 170 pound title at UFC 268, even has nicknames for those he is not too fond of. Whether…

(FILE) Performers assemble the Olympic Rings during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, on July 23, 2021. (Photo by Dylan MARTINEZ / POOL / AFP)Ten Nigerian athletes have been declared ineligible to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Athletics…

Official logo of the Confederation of African Football (CAF)The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has banned the Captain of Enyimba football club, Oladapo Augustine for a year over a doping violation. Announcing the ban via a statement on Monday, CAF said it found the prohibited substance “Prednisolone/Prednisone” in urine collected…

TOKYO (AP) — Sebastian Coe wants to ensure what happened this month to American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson won’t knock another athlete out of the Olympics in the future. Richardson, who won the 100 meters at the U.S. trials last month, didn’t travel to Japan for the Tokyo Games after being…

Urijah Faber was certainly a fan of the UFC Vegas 32 headliner between T.J. Dillashaw and Cory Sandhagen, but there’s certainly no love lost between Faber and Dillashaw. Dillashaw defeated Sandhagen via split decision in Saturday’s five-round bantamweight headliner in a clear “Fight of the Year” contender. Faber, a former…

After sitting on the sidelines for two and a half years for entirely self-imposed reasons, T.J. Dillashaw returned to the cage last weekend where he earned a razor-thin split decision win against Cory Sandhagen. For Dillashaw, the fight can’t be viewed as anything but an unqualified success. The former bantamweight…

After suffering through a litany of injuries in training camp and during his UFC Vegas 32 fight with Cory Sandhagen, T.J. Dillashaw has only one thing on his mind for the future. “I want my belt back,” Dillashaw told reporters after outpointing Sandhagen via split call on Saturday night. “It’s…

No. T.J. Dillashaw did not redeem himself with his win over Cory Sandhagen in the main event of UFC Vegas 32. Dillashaw cheated, and he got caught. That fact will stick with him for the rest of his MMA career and beyond. However, Dillashaw served a two-year suspension for his…

Going into UFC Vegas 32, fight fans had massive expectations for the main event between former champion T.J. Dillashaw and the surging Cory Sandhagen. With Dillashaw returning from a two-year suspension due to an anti-doping violation against one of the division’s most talented fighters in Sandhagen, the winner would catapult…