Category: Doping
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WADA suspends Rio laboratory just weeks before Olympics
Six weeks before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the laboratory that was set to handle drug testing at the Games has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a new escalation of world sport’s doping crisis. WADA — the global regulator of doping in sports that oversees some…
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Olympics may let banned Russian track athletes compete anyway
Olympic leaders called for drug-testing of individual Russian and Kenyan athletes across all sports, warning Tuesday that evidence of inadequate doping controls in those countries could lead to more teams being barred from the Rio de Janeiro Games. At the same time, the international sports officials also opened the door to some Russia track and…
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Alleged doping by Chinese, Russian swim teams investigated
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said it has started investigating allegations of doping by the Russian and Chinese swimming teams. At a conference on Monday, WADA President Craig Reedie said it has “started inquiries into the suggestion of doping” by Russian and Chinese swimmers in conjunction with FINA. Reedie noted “a wave of…
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Even With Confession of Cheating, World’s Doping Watchdog Did Nothing
In December 2012, the World Anti-Doping Agency received an email from an Olympic athlete from Russia. She was asking for help. The athlete, a discus thrower named Darya Pishchalnikova, had won a silver medal four months earlier at the London Olympics. She said that she had taken banned drugs at the direction of Russian sports…
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Putin slams Russian athletes Rio Olympics doping ban
Vladimir Putin has condemned the decision by the world athletics’ governing body to uphold a ban on Russia for systematic doping, thereby excluding its track and field competitors from this summer’s Rio Olympics.
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Fresh doping allegations in Russian swimming prompt Fina concerns
Whistleblowers have been urged to come forward to help the fight against doping after fresh allegations of Russian wrongdoing have surfaced, this time in swimming. According to reports in the Times and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, two senior Russian anti-doping officials offered to stop testing Russian swimmers for money in the buildup to London 2012.…
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Russia Olympics Ban Upheld After Doping Scandal
Russia’s sports ministry has confirmed that the International Association of Athletics Federations has barred Russia’s track-and-field federation from competing at the Olympics in Brazil this summer.
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FINA Responds to Russian Swimming Allegations
These are very serious allegations and we urge anyone with relevant evidence to bring it forward to FINA so that we can share with all appropriate authorities and take immediate disciplinary action if required. FINA is monitoring all developments in the world’s fight against cheating and doping in sport and is taking decisive action to…
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Efimova calls for investigation into Salt Lake City doping laboratory after selection for Russian Rio 2016 team
Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova has called for an investigation into the Salt Lake City doping laboratory after she failed a drugs test for meldonium. It comes as the 24-year-old has been named in the Russian team for August’s Olympic Games despite an anti-doping hearing by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) having not yet delivered a…