Category: Doping
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Banned swimmer Park Tae-hwan to return home from Japan training
Suspended former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan is scheduled to return home on Saturday from a Japanese training camp with hopes of competing in next year’s Summer Games still up in the air, informed sources said Friday. Park, serving a doping ban, began training in Japan in September, after struggling to find proper facilities at…
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Russia among six nations declared “non-compliant” by WADA following Foundation Board meeting
Russia was among six countries declared “non-compliant” by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) today following a Foundation Board meeting in Colorado Springs, while six others were warned they face the same action next year if improvements are not made. Deeming the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) non-compliant was recommended last week by the WADA Indepedent Commission…
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Swimming has global doping problem on same scale as athletics, warn top coaches
Swimming has a global doping crisis on the same scale as athletics, leading coaches have warned. ‘People saying this is not just Russia and not just athletics are 100 per cent correct,’ John Leonard, executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, told Sportsmail. The association are concerned about possible corruption in swimming’s international governing…
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FINA explains its anti-doping control policy following Russia’s doping scandal
FINA expresses its deep concern after the publication of WADA’s Independent Commission report and its impact in worldwide sport in general. As a pillar of the Olympic movement, FINA, as world governing body for Aquatics, undertakes a strong and robust policy in order to optimise the efficacy of our anti-doping strategies; to preserve the validity…
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Russia accused of ‘state-sponsored doping’ as Wada calls for athletics ban
Russia operated a huge state sponsored doping programme that sabotaged the London 2012 Olympics and should be banned from athletics, according to a damning report by the World Anti Doping Agency. The 325-page review by an independent commission chaired by Dick Pound, a former Wada president, uncovered a “deeply rooted culture of cheating†and recommended that…
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Suspended swimmer Park Tae-hwan to train in Japan
Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan, currently serving a doping suspension, has relocated to Japan to continue training, his management company said Tuesday. Team GMP said Park left for Tokyo with his manager and physical trainer on Monday, and will begin training at Hosei University on Thursday. Park will stay in the Japanese capital until…
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FINA announces Kylie Palmer (AUS) failed doping test at Barcelona 2013
See statement on FINA.org On 31 July 2013, FINA has conducted an in-competition doping control test on Ms Kylie Palmer, member of the Australian National Team with the occasion of the FINA World Championships held in Barcelona (ESP). The sample provided by the athlete showed low levels of a prohibited substance. As per the FINA…
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Ukranian swimmer Olga Beresnyeva fails retrospective London 2012 drugs test
The Ukrainian swimmer Olga Beresnyeva has been stripped of a seventh-place finish at the London 2012 Olympics after failing a retrospective drugs test. The 29-year-old has had her 10km open water marathon event record expunged after an International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigation. The IOC conducted further analysis of samples collected at London 2012 earlier this year, finding…
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WADA acknowledge French study into micro-dosing has “raised questions” about ability of athletes to avoid detection
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have acknowledged that a French television documentary which saw eight athletes undergo a month-long period of micro-dosing did “raise questions” about the ability of athletes to avoid testing positive by taking minimal amounts of performance enhancing substances. Athletes participating in the study, documented by France 2’s sports magazine show Stade…