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Category: Doping

  • Ksenia Moskvina lands six-year doping ban

    Ksenia Moskvina lands six-year doping ban

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    Read RIA Novosti Former European champion swimmer Ksenia Moskvina has been banned for six years for a repeat doping offense, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) said Thursday. The Russian, 23, is already serving a one-year ban for her first doping offense and the new punishment will start on November 25, when her first sanction expires.…

  • Police confirm steroids found at Pistorius’ house

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    By now just a sad detail, follow the case for instance on The Guardian Botha: “We found two boxes of steroids…” Nel interrupts him. Botha corrects to: “Two boxes of testosterone, needles and injections.” — David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) February 20, 2013

  • Amateurs want answers for drug test disparity

    Amateurs want answers for drug test disparity

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    Amateurs want answers for drug test disparity. Some within the world of Olympic and amateur sports are questioning why their pursuits undergo rigorous drug testing compared to a relative lack of consistent testing in football. That is different to amateur sports like swimming, in which, according to Swimming Australia, testing happens before every state, national…

  • Australian Olympic swimmer refused ‘B12 injection’ back in the 1980s

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    Read The Sydney Morning Herald An Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer has revealed she refused her coach’s instructions to take a vitamin injection for fear it contained illegal performance-enhancing substances. The female freestyler was a mainstay of the national squad during the 1980s, winning Olympic and Commonwealth medals. As a teenager, she said she felt pressured…

  • Widespread doping scandal rocks Australia

    Widespread doping scandal rocks Australia

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    Australian sport has been rocked by an Australian Crime Commission investigation revealing wide spread drug use across multiple codes and driven by coaches, sports scientists and doctors, with links to organised crime, risk of athletes being co-opted into match fixing and even use of drugs not yet approved for human use. Read for instance The…

  • Li Zhesi Banned For EPO Positive

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    Read SwimNews Following our report and questions in December and pressure from USA Swimming, FINA today imposed a ban on Li Zhesi, the Chinese teenager who at 16 last March 31 tested positive for EPO.

  • ‘Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat’ – A Book Review

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    Read it on bgdailynews.com “Firstly doping harms athletes; secondly, doping is unfair to the athlete’s competitors; thirdly, doping undermines sports in society,” Cooper explains. “Contrast this with the arguments against recreational drugs. Firstly drugs harm an individual; secondly, drugs harm those with whom an individual interacts; thirdly drugs harm the moral structure of society.”

  • Jay Platt being interviewed by Fox about Lance Armstrong

    Jay Platt being interviewed by Fox about Lance Armstrong

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    Spot on, Mr. Platt. http://youtu.be/_q38njdZPwE

  • Mark Spitz questions doping in swimming

    Mark Spitz questions doping in swimming

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    Swimming legend Mark Spitz on a question regarding Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen and her record breaking performance in the Women’s 400 metre individual medley at the 2012 Olympic Games: “Certainly the performance stands on its own merits. World record swims and she drops her time by seconds from one year to the next. Obviously that…