Doping Test

Springbok Aphiwe Dyantyi’s case could take significant steps forward in the coming months, a year after he tested positive for anabolic steroids and metabolites.The 25-year-old is awaiting final lab results done on suspected contaminated supplements that could absolve him.His agent, Gert van der Merwe, said they wanted the swiftest way…

Updated / Thursday, 2 Jul 2020 10:56 Yevgeny Yurchenko - president of the Russian Athletics Federation Russia's suspended athletics federation said on Thursday it had missed a 1 July deadline to pay $5 million of a fine to World Athletics, jeopardising the chances of its track and field athletes being…

Chiliboy Ralepelle (Photo by Steve Haag/Gallo Images) Chiliboy Ralepelle was found guilty by an independent tribunal of taking banned anabolic agent Zenarol, the SA Institute for Drug-free Sport revealed on Wednesday. It was the Springbok's third adverse dope finding in his career, although he was proven to hold no culpability…

New Delhi: The Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday (June 30) launched NADA India`s mobile app which aims to create a bridge between athletes and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). The app provides easily-accessible information on various aspects of the sport, and most importantly about…

Christian Coleman Christian Petersen/Getty Images World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe says no athlete should "minimise the importance of the whereabouts rule" after 100m world champion Christian Coleman missed three doping tests in a 12-month period.The American sprinter, who was provisionally suspended earlier this month, risks a two-year ban that would…

The turbulent times of Sun Yang, the controversial Chinese swimmer who in 2012 became his country’s first male Olympic swimming champion but ran into trouble with doping authorities, are to make the Silver Screen in a film charting tainted gold. Sun was hit with a three-month backdated suspension, one never…

Olympic swimming champion Kyle Chalmers has said widespread doping in the sport means he can't trust half of his competitors, and said he was inspired by teammate Mack Horton's stance against Sun Yang.Key points:Kyle Chalmers says he uses the knowledge his competitors are doping as motivation in racesHe said he…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Argentine swimmer Guillermo Bertola has been banned for four years and stripped of his 2019 Pan American Games silver medal in a doping case in which he said he received a transfusion of his mother’s blood.The governing body of swimming said Thursday the case against the…

STADIO PIERO DE PAOLI, CHIERI, Athletics (Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images) World Athletics said Monday it had shot down a request by Russia's athletics federation to defer a payment of a $5 million doping fine.In March, World Athletics fined Russia's track and field federation $10 million for breaching…

Gomathi Marimuthu The 31-year-old runner will be banned until May 2023 and disqualified from all races in a two-month period last year, the AIU said. Asian Champion middle distance runner Gomathi Marimuthu was suspended on Friday for four years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping and stripped of…