# Doping

Last year

2022

# Qatar 2022

Senegal forward Balde set to miss World Cup after being handed three-month doping ban

The Africa Cup of Nations winner, currently at Spartak Moscow, has been suspended until 5 December.

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Sep 19th 2022, 2:20 PM

# suspended

Tottenham’s Chioma Ubogagu handed nine-month ban for anti-doping violations

The independent regulatory commission imposing the sanction accepted Ubogagu had broken the rules unintentionally.

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May 19th 2022, 1:08 PM

All time

# Probe

Leading French racehorse trainers arrested on doping suspicion - reports

Around 15 people including veterinary surgeons were taken in as part of the investigation.

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Dec 7th 2021, 6:41 PM

# Racing

Ruby Walsh on Kildare raid: 'Dad has explained why he was there. To me, he was an eye witness'

The former champion jockey accepts that the incident last Tuesday has been damaging for racing and those involved.

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Nov 16th 2021, 2:48 PM

# Ruling

Salazar loses appeal, four-year ban for series of doping violations upheld

The 63-year-old had appealed the decision imposed by the US Anti-Doping Agency in 2019.

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Sep 16th 2021, 9:25 AM

# Sun Yang

Olympic champion's eight-year doping ban halved - but will still miss Tokyo 2020

Sun Yang has always protested innocence over the anti-doping violation in 2018.

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Jun 23rd 2021, 8:44 AM

# Claim

Prosecution concludes British cycling doctor complicit in doping

Almost two years after it started, the fitness-to-practice hearing has finally reached the summing up stage.

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Jan 26th 2021, 9:04 AM

# Intrigue

'This small, beautiful woman and her f***ed-up, broken life'

An extract from David Walsh’s book ‘The Russian Affair’.

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Dec 26th 2020, 7:00 AM

# CAS

Russia's doping ban halved but name and flag barred from next two Olympics

And the country’s footballers will miss the World Cup in Qatar should they qualify too.

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Dec 17th 2020, 3:39 PM

# Suspension

Springboks wing Dyantyi handed four-year doping ban

The 26-year-old tested positive for three banned substances.

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Dec 14th 2020, 2:03 PM

# Banned

Former Springbok captain Chiliboy Ralepelle loses appeal against eight-year doping ban

Ralepelle will be 40 when the ban expires in January 2027.

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Nov 12th 2020, 1:58 PM

# Doping

Championship footballer handed two-year ban and sacked for use of prohibited substance

The ruling was announced today after Barnsley’s Bambo Diaby tested positive for higenamine.

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Oct 7th 2020, 1:52 PM

# Probe

'I have nothing to hide' - Tour de France team leader denies doping after hotel room search

French police are investigating the Arkea-Samsic team of former Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana winner Nairo Quintana.

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Sep 23rd 2020, 12:00 PM

# Athletics

Former marathon world-record holder Kipsang handed four-year ban

The Kenyan runner has been suspended for violating anti-doping rules.

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Jul 3rd 2020, 3:20 PM

# drugs in sport

Irish amateur wrestler given four-year ban for doping violation

The athlete failed her doping control test in November and the four-year ban is place since December.

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Jun 16th 2020, 4:00 PM

# Doping

Triple Olympic champion Sun Yang banned for eight years

The Chinese swimmer was accused of smashing the vials containing his blood after a row with a team of FINA drug-testers at his home.

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Feb 28th 2020, 10:36 AM

# anti-doping

Mo Farah insists he's 'happy' for his old blood and urine samples to be retested

Wada intends to investigate athletes who worked with banned former coach Alberto Salazar.

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Jan 21st 2020, 6:27 PM

# Doping

Russia banned for four years from global sporting events including the Olympics

The World Anti-Doping Agency announced the suspension this morning.

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Dec 9th 2019, 10:40 AM

# MAFIA FEAR

Teams warn of 'mafia' doping controls as they call for more blood tests

The Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC) said they have based their demands on testimony made by Austria’s Georg Preidler.

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Dec 4th 2019, 8:05 PM

# called in sick

Athletics Integrity Unit charge Russia over high-jumper no-show for out of competition tests

Danil Lysenko medalled at the outdoor and indoor world championships in 2017 and 2018.

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Nov 21st 2019, 7:08 PM

# Swimming

Yang blames 'unprofessional' drug testers for incident when he smashed blood vial with hammer

The triple Olympic champion appeared at a rare public CAS hearing.

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Nov 15th 2019, 11:08 AM

# Cycling

Former Team Sky head coach branded 'a doper' and 'serial liar' at tribunal

Shane Sutton walked out after denying the accusations aimed at him in Manchester.

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Nov 12th 2019, 4:54 PM

# Nike Oregon Project

Disgraced coach Salazar lodges appeal of four-year doping ban

The 61-year-old’s offences include trafficking testosterone, tampering with the doping control process, and administering illicit infusions of a fat-burning substance.

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Nov 11th 2019, 4:17 PM

# record time

Dublin Marathon winner who served doping ban 'slipped through the net'

Morocco’s Othmane El Goumri broke the course record with a time of 2:08:06 yesterday.

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Oct 28th 2019, 2:08 PM

# Grim

Michael Phelps says he 'never competed in a clean field once'

The 28-time Olympic medalist says positive tests should result in a lifetime ban.

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Oct 27th 2019, 12:36 PM

# Doping

Alberto Salazar, Mo Farah's former coach, handed four-year doping ban

Farah left Salazar’s camp in 2017 but denied the decision was related to doping accusations.

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Oct 1st 2019, 8:17 AM

# Doping

Prospect of Olympics ban raised as WADA ask Russia to explain 'inconsistencies'

In another blow, the IAAF maintained a ban on the Russian athletics federation.

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Sep 23rd 2019, 7:43 PM

# Drugs in Rugby

World Rugby confident there's no 'systematic doping problem' in the sport

CEO Brett Gosper did admit to some concerns about ‘community’ levels of the game.

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Sep 17th 2019, 12:00 PM

# Doping

Whyte provisionally suspended by WBC after drugs findings

The Briton had finally earned the status of mandatory challenger to Deontay Wilder, but that has now been put on hold.

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Jul 31st 2019, 10:52 AM

# Vicious cycle

Lance Armstrong on doping: 'I wouldn't change a thing'

The former Tour champ says it was worth it for the lessons he learned.

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May 24th 2019, 8:32 AM

# Athletics

Kenyan coach who was sent home from Rio Olympics banned for 10 years for corruption

Michael Rotich, the former head of the nations’ track and field team, has been suspended from the sport.

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May 22nd 2019, 7:39 PM

# Doping

Rio marathon silver medallist banned following EPO positive

Bahrain’s Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa has been provisionally suspended.

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May 22nd 2019, 2:35 PM

# Doping

WADA make 'major breakthrough for clean sport' by retrieving Moscow data

Data has been retrieved from a laboratory at the heart of Russia’s state-sponsored doping scandal.

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Jan 17th 2019, 10:06 PM

# under the microscope

WADA to collect data from Moscow anti-doping lab as moves toward reinstatement continue

A Wada report found that the lab was at the heart of a state-sponsored Russian doping cover-up.

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Dec 14th 2018, 7:54 PM

# Allegation

'Ramos is an honest man': Madrid boss Solari defends captain over doping claims

Santiago Solari questioned the nature of the accusations against the defender.

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Nov 26th 2018, 10:25 PM

# Doping

6 schoolboy rugby players in South Africa test positive for PEDs

The results come off the back of 122 tests completed at this year’s U18 Craven Week.

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Oct 12th 2018, 5:46 PM

# Boxing

WBO champion Saunders refused licence for fight in Boston in the wake of failed doping test

Billy Joe Saunders was due to fight Demetrius Andrade on 20 October.

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Oct 10th 2018, 9:04 AM

# drugs in sport

'Where does the international fight against doping in sport go from here?' - Sport Ireland

John Treacy has released a statement to criticise Wada’s decision to reinstate Russia.

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Sep 20th 2018, 6:23 PM

# diamond cut

WBA heavyweight titlist Charr set to be stripped of belt after testing positive for steroids

The German-based boxer was set to face 45-year-old Fres Oquendo next week.

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Sep 20th 2018, 2:17 PM

# UFC

Jon Jones handed 15-month backdated doping ban... which expires a week before UFC 230

Dana White plays down speculation that Jones will return in November, saying he expects to see him “early next year”.

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Sep 20th 2018, 8:43 AM