Doping Test

UFC Fight Island 7: Holloway vs. Kattar weigh-in face-offs video The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Fight Island for its third stint in in Abu Dhabi since the pandemic shutdown of 2020. UFC Fight Island 7 (aka UFC on ABC 1) features a featherweight showdown between former champion Max Holloway…

It’s been a long journey from Nevada handing Nick Diaz a five year ban from competition in 2015 over a failed drug test for marijuana (his third offense in MMA related to the substance), to 2021 and the news that USADA is moving to stop punishing fighters for recreational drug…

By Danny Segura | January 14, 2021 6:30 pm UFC fighters who use marijuana now can rest a little more easily under the new change to the promotion’s anti-doping policy. Athletes who test positive for carboxy-THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, will no longer be punished by the U.S. Anti-Doping…

UFC on Thursday announced several significant changes to its Anti-Doping Policy, including modifications in the handling of cannabis and its naturally occurring cannabinoid constituents.   Most importantly, positive tests over the threshold and decision limit for carboxy-THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, will no longer be considered a violation of the…

Brianna McNeal claimed Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.© AFP Olympic 100m hurdles champion Brianna McNeal has been provisionally suspended for doping violations, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Thursday. The 29-year-old American, who claimed Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and also won world…

Reigning Olympic 100m hurdles champion Brianna McNeal has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit. The former world champion was charged with tampering with part of a doping control process. McNeal claimed 100m hurdles gold for the USA at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and was also world champion…

Updated / Thursday, 14 Jan 2021 16:11 Brianna McNeal won gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics American Olympic 100m hurdles gold medallist Brianna McNeal has been charged and provisionally suspended for violating World Athletics' Anti-Doping rules. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said the 29-year-old McNeal, who won gold at the 2016…

The highest court in sports blasted Russia for engaging in “a cover up of the cover-up” in another desperate attempt to deny culpability for a state-sponsored doping scheme, while also justifying its decision to reduce the country’s punishments at the next two Olympics. The Associated Press obtained an advance copy…

Ireland international Danny Bridge is free to resume his rugby league career after benefiting from rule changes introduced by the World Anti-Doping Agency relating to recreational drug use. Bridge, 27,  tested positive for cocaine after playing for Oldham in their Betfred Championship match against Whitehaven last February and was subsequently…

A women’s strawweight fight between Livinha Souza and Amanda Lemos has been scheduled for upcoming pay-per-view event UFC 259. Combate was the first outlet to report the fight. Souza made her UFC debut in 2018 after several years of competing under the Invicta FC banner. She would meet Alex Chambers…