Category: Doping
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Moskvina handed one-year doping ban
European short-course record holder Ksenia Moskvina has been banned for 12 months after failing a drugs test, the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) said on Thursday. Read SuperSport
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Ian Thorpe ‘happy’ at Lance Armstrong’s downfall
IAN Thorpe said he was “happy” at Lance Armstrong’s downfall and congratulated the doping authorities that exposed the seven-time Tour de France winner as a drug cheat. “I was happy. It shows that no matter who you are and whatever you do, you can fall,†Thorpe said on the closing day of the Doha Goals…
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All 518 Aquatic Olympic doping tests return negative
All 518 doping tests carried out on athletes in aquatic events at the London 2012 Olympics returned negative, the sport’s governing body Fina said on Sunday. Read SuperSport
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Denmark central in European doping production and distribution, according to own authorities
Danish media Politiken broke this story yesterday, that Denmark according to local authorities has ‘a special status on the doping market”, as producer and distributor of doping substances. Four major brands have close ties to Denmark – India-based Alpha-Pharma has a Danish CEO and Denmark as a sort of distribution hub for their product, Gen-Shi…
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Channing Crowder saw Michael Phelps smoke weed 3 weeks before getting caught
According to Channing Crowder, former Miami Dolphins linebacker and current co-host on “The Jorge Sedano Show†on 560 WQAM in Miami, he saw him smoke some weed three weeks prior to being caught taking a hit from a bong. And, Ryan Lochte is described as a pothead. And they go at him for that gaffe…
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Greek swimmer wins €277,000 compensation for Olympic ban
The Greek Swimming Federation have been ordered to pay 277,000 euros to 100m freestyle swimmer Tonia Machaira for wrongfully excluding her from the Athens 2004 Olympics on the grounds she had failed a drugs test. WADA confirmed that she had not failed the anti-doping test, as suspected by the Greek federation, she filed a suit…
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Ye Shiwen hits back on China’s state TV over Olympics doping claim
Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen tells Chinese station CCTV of her disappointment about suggestions that she relied on performance-enhancing drugs to break the 400m individual medley world record. Via The Guardian
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Positive drug tests at the Summer Olympics, 1968 – 2012
The Economist has this interesting chart over positive drug tests at the Summer Games up until August 1st 2012, and adds in the article from August 2nd that until then, “two athletes, an Albanian weightlifter and an Uzbek gymnast, have so far been ejected from the London Olympics for failing drugs tests.” Makes you think,…
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Prestigious academic journal apologizes to Ye Shiwen for controversial article
No, settle down, it wasn’t John Leonard / ASCA, but the (for some of us) lesser Nature, hit hard for attacking Ye Shiwen in the article “Why great Olympic feats raise suspicions“, to the point where their comment system broke down. Having had to change their subtitle because (and I quote) “the original version of…