Doping Test

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports World champion Christian Coleman will miss next year's Tokyo Olympics after the Athletics Integrity Unit (track and field's independent anti-doping watchdog) determined that he recorded three whereabouts failures for anti-doping tests over a 12-month period. His suspension runs through May 13, 2022. Coleman is the reigning…

Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports Chase Sherman becomes the latest UFC fighter to fail a USADA test. UFC heavyweight Chase Sherman has been suspended by USADA for nine months after testing positive for anastrozole. USADA confirmed Sherman’s test failure on Tuesday. Anastrozole is an anti-estrogen drug that is used to treat…

Following a second-round finish over No. 1-ranked bantamweight contender Marlon Moraes in the UFC Fight Island 5 main event, Cory Sandhagen isn’t asking for a title shot. But he certainly wouldn’t turn one down. After falling to Aljamain Sterling back in June, Sandhagen returned with a statement performance on Saturday…

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and current UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya have had a longstanding feud, which generally devolves into trash-talking on social media. That was again what happened recently, but interestingly, Jones outed himself, admitting to an infamous story about how he evaded drug testers at…

Some fans believed Michael Chandler would never sign with the UFC due to its strict drug testing program with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), with Chandler’s main detractors accusing the former three-time Bellator lightweight champion of using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Now that he’s signed with the UFC, however, Chandler…

SHANGHAI: Jiang Haiqi starred alongside the controversial Sun Yang in winning a historic relay swimming bronze medal for China at the London 2012 Olympics.But now he is doing national duty of a very different kind - as a policeman saving lives on Shanghai's Huangpu River. Jiang has the broad shoulders…

Duda Santana’s UFC career has come to an end after the Brazilian bantamweight tested positive for a banned substance, her manager Alex Davis confirmed to MMA Fighting on Monday. “Cowboyzinha” tested positive for selective androgen receptor modulator LGD-4033 during an out-of-competition test conducted by the United States Anti-Doping Agency on…

Two people have been taken into custody as French prosecutors launched an investigation into suspected doping at the Tour de France by the Arkea-Samsic team. The Marseille prosecutor's office told AFP on Monday that they are carrying out an investigation into a "small part” of the team, which was led…

Brazilian athlete Lara Procopio has been sanctioned by the United States Anti-Doping Agency after a failed drug test, but she has already served her suspension. On Monday, USADA officials announced that Procopio was issued a six-month suspension under the UFC’s anti-doping policy after she tested positive for ostarine during an…

PARIS (Reuters) - Lamine Diack, once one of the most powerful people in athletics, was convicted in France on Wednesday of running a clique that covered up Russian doping in return for bribes worth millions of dollars and sentenced to spend at least two years in jail.The 87-year-old former head…