Doping Test

June 12, 2020 | 12:33am US Olympic team boxer Virginia Fuchs will face no punishment for failing a doping test after the US Anti-Doping Association determined the violation had been caused by two substances transmitted by her boyfriend through sex. The USADA announced its ruling Thursday clearing the 32-year-old Fuchs,…

Updated / Friday, 12 Jun 2020 08:09 Virginia Fuchs (R) fights during U.S. Olympic Boxing Team Trials last December US Olympic team boxer Virginia Fuchs has been cleared of a doping violation after the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) determined that banned substances in her sample had been transmitted during…

Lamine Diack (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images for IAAF) The former head of global track and field, Lamine Diack, told his corruption trial on Thursday he had agreed to delay and stagger bans for Russian athletes caught doping for the sake of the sport's "financial health".But Diack, who headed the…

STADIO PIERO DE PAOLI, CHIERI, Athletics (Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images) Several Russian athletes including star high jumper Maria Lasitskene on Wednesday called on sporting authorities to pay a $5 million fine to allow them to take part in the Tokyo Olympics.In March, World Athletics fined Russia's track…

Lamine Diack (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images for IAAF) The former anti-doping chief of athletics' world governing body told a French court Monday that Lamine Diack urged him to bend the rules on Russian doping cases to avoid "a scandal" that would scare off sponsors.Gabriel Dolle is being tried in…

Updated / Monday, 8 Jun 2020 08:24 Salwa Eid Naser has been handed a provisional suspension Women's 400 metres world champion Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain has been handed a provisional suspension for failing to make herself available for anti-doping tests, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday. Naser…

Now the Chinese are turning their backs on Sun Yang: Shamed swimmer loses 360,000 followers after being slapped with an eight-year ban - and some are even apologising to Mack HortonChinese swimmer Sun Yang, 28, was banned for eight years for dopingHe tested positive for a once-banned drug and also…

Sun Yang, China's first swimmer to snatch Olympic gold, appears to be losing domestic support after he was given an eight-year ban for tampering with a drug test.Key points:Sun Yang is China's most successful swimmer, but is shedding fans on social mediaHe was found guilty of refusing to cooperate with…

Adam Peaty did not need to be diagnosed to work out what was wrong. ‘I was in a place where you don’t find any fun in anything or you don’t really see the point in anything,’ the British swimming superstar recalls.It was 18 months ago that Peaty suffered from those symptoms…

Olympic Channel’s 2019 World Championships Weeks continues next week with seven days and more than 50 hours of coverage from swimming worlds in Gwangju, South Korea.All coverage on the Olympic Channel will also stream on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app for subscribers.At worlds last summer, Caeleb Dressel became the first swimmer…