MUMBAI (Reuters) – Peruvian player Arklon Huertas Del Pino has been handed a two-year ban for doping, the International Tennis Federation has said. The 25-year-old was handed a provisional suspension in December after his sample, which he provided during a tou... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia could be hit with a four-year Olympic ban on Monday for flouting anti-doping rules, a punishment local officials have said would be unfair and part of a malicious Western attempt to destroy sport in the country. Russia, which has trie... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Russia and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had reached an understanding on the handover of data from the former Moscow anti-doping laboratory. Russia was due to hand over the data to... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is working with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to settle an issue regarding the transfer of laboratory data, the Kremlin said on Friday – a condition for the country’s anti-doping agency to keep its accreditation. Russian anti-do... More »
TORONTO (Reuters) – Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is again on the verge of suspension after a World Anti-Doping Agency inspection team visiting a Moscow laboratory was denied access to raw data to complete its full reinstatement, WADA said on Friday. Th... More »
MONACO (Reuters) – Russia’s athletics federation will learn on Tuesday whether its ban for widespread doping, in place for the last three years, will be lifted by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The IAAF’s Council will vote on Ru... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Kenya’s former Olympic and world 1,500 meters champion Asbel Kiprop said on Thursday that a doping sample might have been tampered with by testers who not only tipped him off about their visit but also took a payment from him. Although there... More »
(Reuters) – There were nearly 1,600 anti-doping rules violations (ADRV) in 2016 involving athletes and support staff from 117 nationalities across 112 sports with athletics top of the list, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said in a report released on Thurs... More »
Team Sky crossed an "ethical line" by using permitted medication to enhance the performance of Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, said a British parliamentary committee report published on Monday. More »
Feb 13, 2018- Gangneung, South Korea- Aleksandr Krushelnitckii (OAR) during the mixed doubles curling bronze medal game during the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games at Gangneung Curling Centre. Mandatory Credit: James Lang-USA TODAY Sports GANGNEUNG, South... More »
Curling – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match – Olympic Athletes from Russia v Norway – Gangneung Curling Center – Gangneung, South Korea – February 13, 2018 – Aleksandr Krushelnitckii and Anastasia Bryzgalova, Olympic athletes ... More »
Matthieu Reeb, Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration for Sport speaks during a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski ZURICH (Reuters) – Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans o... More »
FILE PHOTO – A woman walks into the head office of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo (Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has begun an investigation into a potentia... More »
FILE PHOTO: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters is pictured on the day of an Executive Board meeting on sanctions for Russian athletes in Lausanne, Switzerland December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse ZURICH (Reuters) – Forty-two Russians h... More »
A woman walks into the head office of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo (Reuters) – France’s main anti-doping laboratory has had its suspension lifted after it corrected its “... More »
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Two brothers who played ice hockey for New Zealand have become the first athletes to be banned after an investigation into the sale of performance-enhancing drugs to amateur sportspeople in the country. Mitchell and Lachlan Frear have be... More »
The man who helped expose Russia's massive doping regime says the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is still in denial over the performance-enhancing drug use and would rather sweep it under the carpet than take meaningful action. More »
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will begin an audit of Russia's anti-doping program this week as it prepares to make a recommendation on whether to reinstate the Russian agency, the organization said on Sunday. More »
Russian Olympic bobsledder Nadezhda Paleeva has been banned for two years for a violation of anti-doping whereabouts rules, Russia’s national anti-doping agency RUSADA said. More »
An Indian athlete has been slapped with a provisional suspension after vials of the banned metabolic modulator meldonium were found in his hostel room, the country’s top anti-doping official said on Thursday. More »
Kazakhstan teenager Arsan Arashov has been banned for two years after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced on Thursday. More »
A woman walks into the head office of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo The Doping Analysis Laboratory in Doha has had its suspension lifted and been reinstated, the World Ant... More »
Athletics – Sainsburys Indoor Grand Prix – National Indoor Arena, Birmingham – 15/2/14 Women’s 400m – Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Steven Paston EDITORIAL USE ONLY. Commonwealth Games 400 meters hurdles champion Kaliese Spencer ... More »
2016 Rio Olympics – Synchronised Swimming – Duets Free Routine – Victory Ceremony – Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 16/08/2016. Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia waves from the tribune. REUTERS/Michael Dalder Double Olympic pole vault champion ... More »
A technician holds a test tube with a blood sample at the Russian anti-doping laboratory in Moscow. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin The track and field circuit wants Russia to eradicate doping so the country’s athletes can return to action in full force, the head of ... More »
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/File Photo Russia has never had a state-sponsored doping program, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, afte... More »
Tennis – Dubai Open – Men’s Singles – Andy Murray of Britain v Malek Jaziri of Tunisia – Dubai, UAE – 28/2/2017 – Andy Murray in action. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah World number one Andy Murray is against giving wild cards to players returning from doping bans but ... More »
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps reacts as fellow witnesses testify before the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee about anti-doping policy in international sport, in Washington February 28, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan Michael Phelps urge... More »
Mo Farah of Great Britain jobs past coach Alberto Salazar in the Bird’s Nest Stadium at the Wold Athletics Championships in Beijing, China, August 21, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files Alberto Salazar, the coach of Britain’s Olympic champion Mo Farah, has bee... More »
FILE PHOTO: IAAF President Sebastian Coe attends a news conference after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) council meeting in Vienna, Austria, June 17, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo Three Russian athletes, including the w... More »
The re-testing of samples from the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics in Russia to identify any cheats who had competed there will last another five years to 2022, the International Olympic Committee said. More »
U.S. skeleton athletes are considering boycotting the world championships in Sochi next year in protest at the Russian doping scandal and how it has been handled, the New York Times reported on Sunday. More »
Apr 26, 2014- Baltimore, MD, USA- Jon Jones puts his arms in the air after the UFC light heavy weight championship fight against Glover Texeira at Baltimore Arena. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports – RTR3MRK2 The United States Anti-Doping Agenc... More »
Russian Track and Field Championships – Women’s long jump – Cheboksary, Russia, 21/6/16. An athlete during a training session. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/Files Russia, whose track and field athletes were banned from the Rio Olympics after disclosures of a state-... More »
MOSCOW Five-times grand slam winner Maria Sharapova, banned in June for two years for doping offences, may be allowed to return in January, according to Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) president Shamil Tarpishchev. “Everything will be decided in September. It ... More »
MELBOURNE The Australian government has criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for rejecting a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Games, saying their participation risks damaging the reputation of the Olympic movement. The IOC ... More »
NAIROBI Kenya is investigating newspaper allegations that doctors from the country supplied prohibited performance enhancing drugs to British athletes, a government minister said on Tuesday. Undercover footage taken by the Sunday Times showed two Kenyan doctor... More »
ZURICH Russian former number one Maria Sharapova has lodged an appeal of her two-year suspension from tennis with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to have the ban either lifted completely or reduced. Sharapova, 29, was banned by the Internatio... More »
Whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov told Reuters on Monday he nearly aborted his plan to expose widespread doping in Russian athletics when the World Anti-Doping Agency was slow to act on information he provided them. Stepanov, who previously worked for Russia’s ant... More »
MOSCOW Russia’s sports ministry said on Monday it was “certain” about the transparency of its doping controls during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and that independent observers had managed the testing operation daily. The ministry was responding to alleg... More »
SOFIA Bulgarian triple jumper Gabriela Petrova has tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, joining the long list of athletes, including tennis champion Maria Sharapova, who have recorded positive tests for the drug. The 23-year-old, who won the sil... More »
The recent wave of positive tests has thrust sports doping back in the headlines but it is not just athletes seeking to enhance performance who are taking banned substances, a Norwegian anti-doping official has told Reuters. Morten Heierdal of Anti-Doping Norw... More »
NAIROBI The Kenyan athletes’ representative, Noah Ngeny, has quit his post, saying that the country’s sporting authorities were not doing enough to tackle a doping crisis. Kenya is a global leader in endurance running, both on the track and in city marathons b... More »
The UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) agency could play a leading role in running Russia’s drug testing across all sports while the country’s anti-doping agency serves a suspension for non-compliance, WADA said on Wednesday. WADA met with UKAD, the Russian Anti-Doping Age... More »
LONDON UK Athletics (UKA) has called for world records to be wiped clean and drug cheats to be banned for at least eight years in radical proposals aimed at heralding a new unblemished era for the sport. UKA’s document “A Manifesto for Clean Athletics” was pub... More »
SEOUL The doctor who administered injections which caused decorated South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan to fail a doping test was found not guilty of causing injury through professional negligence on Thursday. The doctor, identified only by her surname Kim, had... More »
KUALA LUMPUR The head of world athletics vigorously defended the IAAF’s anti-doping record on Monday, as global sporting bodies called for a thorough probe of the latest allegations to plunge international sport into crisis. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper an... More »
PARIS American Tom Danielson has revealed he failed a doping test for synthetic testosterone but the Cannondale-Garmin rider denies taking a banned substance. “While I was eating dinner with my team the night before Tour of Utah I received a call from USADA no... More »
KUALA LUMPUR The head of world athletics said on Monday that any suggestion his organization had been negligent in drug testing of athletes was “laughable”. “There are allegations made, no evidence,” IAAF president Lamine Diack told Reuters in the Malaysian ca... More »
