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LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will test all samples Russia athletes participating in the 2012 London Olympics. IOC President Thomas Bach said the report showed more than 1,000 athletes were involved in a conspiracy to hide a positive drug test. “Following the discovery by Professor (Richard) McLaren, I extend …

Olympic history could be rewritten as sports officials have re-tested urine samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and found more than 75 athletes to be guilty of doping. Most are from Russia and Eastern European countries. At least 40 won medals. The number will go up as disciplinary …

Tuesday, 3 October 2017 :  British javelin thrower Joanna Blair has been provisionally suspended after failing an anti-doping test. Blair, who won the British title last year with a personal best of of 57.44m, has the chance to appeal and the right to a full hearing. Blair, from Luton, represented Great …

Wednesday, 6 September 2017 :  A foreign medallist at the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games has tested positive for a banned substance. The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) secretary Datuk Low Beng Choo (pic) confirmed that they had been notified by the Kuala Lumpur 2017 medical and anti-doping committee head Datuk …

Wednesday, 9 August 2017 : Long jumper Darya Klishina is one of 19 Russian athletes competing as a ‘neutral’ at the World Championships. She was Russia’s only track and field athlete at Rio 2016, and at the World Championships in London the 26-year-old, and her compatriots, are taking part under the …

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 : Maria Sharapova has not been handed a wild card into this year’s French Open, tournament organisers have announced on Facebook. The 30-year-old former world number one has competed at three events since returning to competitive tennis following her 15-month doping suspension. Sharapova tested positive for meldonium …

Tuesday, 16 May 2017 :  The 30-year-old American, who won 5,000m relay silver at Sochi 2014, will miss the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang. He has accepted the US Anti-Doping Agency’s sanction, which is effective from 18 November 2016, the date of his provisional suspension. Traces of clomiphene were found in …

Friday, 28 April 2017 :  Russian Sharapova has beaten Roberta Vinci and Ekaterina Makarova at the Stuttgart Open on her return from a 15-month doping ban. In October, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Sharapova was not an “intentional doper”. But Bouchard said: “She’s a cheater and I don’t …

Friday, 21 April 2017 :  Olympic 100 metres hurdles champion Brianna Rollins has been handed a one-year ban for failing to properly file whereabouts information, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said on Thursday. As a member of the USADA testing pool, Rollins is subject to whereabouts requirements enabling her to be …

Thursday, 20 April 2017 :  Dr Robin Chakraverty said the amount of L-carnitine was well within World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) limits. Dr Chakraverty said the substance was given to help the Briton’s performance. He said he gave 13.5 millilitres of the legal supplement, below the maximum allowed of 50ml within …