Doping Test

Recent UFC signee Jose Henrique has accepted a two-year suspension for violating the promotion’s anti-doping policy, USADA announced Thursday. Henrique tested positive for two metabolites of the anabolic agent nandrolone — 19-norandrosterone and 19-noretiocholanolone — in an out-of-competition drug screening conducted on March 8, per USADA officials. Henrique’s suspension is…

The triathlon community went into meltdown last month when it was revealed that Collin Chartier, the 2022 PTO US Open champion and 2022 IRONMAN Mont Tremblant winner had tested positive for EPO. In the storm which followed, dozens of top-level professionals took to social media to lambast the disgraced American,…

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Simona Halep has said she is “devastated” that her hearing for an anti-doping breach during the US Open has been postponed for a third time. The former world No. 1 was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency in October after testing positive for a banned substance, Roxadustat. She…

8:53 pm, Sat May 20, 2023 Newly-appointed chair of the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel Georgia Gibson-Henlin. (jamaica-gleaner.com file photo) Former vice chair of the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel Georgia Gibson-Henlin has been promoted to chair the panel. The Ministry of Sports made the announcement on Friday.  Gibson-Henlin replaces Kent Gammon who…

Two-time Grand Slam champion, Simona Halep, has been charged with a ‘further and separate’ breach of the Anti-Doping Programme according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency. The player was previously suspended after the banned substance Roxadustat was found in her system following the US Open last year. The Romanian star…

Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former world No 1, has denied any doping allegations, saying she is living the “worst nightmare” of her life and hasn’t “ever even thought of taking an illicit substance”. She has been charged with a second doping offence over “irregularities” in her…

Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been accused of a second doping offense by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport. The charge announced Friday “is separate and in addition to” the provisional suspension Halep received last year after failing a drug test during…

Simona Halep, the former world No 1 and Wimbledon champion, faces further delays in her attempts to clear her name over escalating blood-doping charges, despite her furious statements on social media about the process. Halep was hit with a second charge by the International Tennis Integrity Agency last week – this…

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has suspended Kenya’s 10 kilometres road race world record holder Rhonex Kipruto. In a statement Wednesday, the athletics governing body said Kipruto has been “provisionally suspended” for suspected doping. The 23-year-old, who won 10,000 metres bronze in the 2019 World Championships, was charged by the AIU…