Category: Doping
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WADA will not appeal Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s ban
The World Anti-Doping agency will not appeal a three-month ban imposed against China’s controversial double Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang but will warn China over the case. WADA had considered action after Sun failed a doping test in May and was banned for three months by the Chinese federation but it was only announced in…
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Sun Yang will miss Olympics if WADA hands down doping suspension
The World Anti-Doping Agency is mulling over appealing the 22-year-old′s secret ban to the Court for Arbitration for Sport. If they take action, WADA may elect to penalize him under their new rules, which come into effect in 2015, and double the doping ban to four years, meaning he′ll miss the 2016 Rio Games. A…
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Denis Cotterell feels sorry for Sun Yang
Chinese swimming star Sun Yang’s Australian coach said he felt sorry for the double Olympic champion after it emerged he had served a doping ban, telling media Thursday the athlete was “let down”. Denis Cotterell made his comments after Australian swimming authorities barred the 1,500 metres world record-holder from training in the country’s pools in…
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CCTV News: Olympic swimmer Sun Yang failed drug test
According to China Anti-Doping Agency, the country’s most successful swimmer Sun Yang tested positive for a banned stimulant back in May. Sun has already served the three-month ban earlier this year and has been stripped of his 1500-meter freestyle gold that he won at the national championship. But many are wondering why the announcement came…
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Chinese doping officials say no cover-up of Sun ban
Chinese doping officials say they were not trying to cover up Sun Yang’s positive test and that they held back news of his three-month suspension because they did not want to make any mistakes with “the most famous athlete in China”. Sun, China’s most successful male swimmer, secretly served his ban during May and August…
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Olympic Champion Sun Yang Fails Drug Test
Chinese multi-Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang had failed a doping test and been banned for three months, China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) told Xinhua on Monday. Sun tested positive for stimulant trimetazidine in an in-competition doping test on May 17 during the national swimming championships. Sun gave up the chance to have the B…
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Drug cheats in sport could benefit ‘for decades’, scientists find
Convicted dope cheats such as sprinter Justin Gatlin could still be benefiting from having taken banned substances long after their bans have expired. Research by University of Oslo scientists has established that muscles can retain the advantages given by anabolic steroids decades after the point at which they were taken. The data casts another shadow…
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Inside The Anti-Doping Lab
See how clean athletes are protected with an inside look at one of WADA’s anti-doping laboratories.
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Lifetime doping bans not legal, WADA president says
The World Anti-Doping Agency doubled bans for “serious doping offendersâ€Â from two years to four years last November, to be implemented in 2015, but many would like to see lifetime bans. WADA has looked into it, and it doesn’t appear to be an option. “Our advice was that [life bans] would be challenged and would not be…