Tag Archives: doping

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 …

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 :  The infusion of the legal supplement L-carnitine, given to Farah before the 2014 London Marathon, is being looked at by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) to determine whether rules were broken. Dr Robin Chakraverty carried out the treatment on the instruction of Farah’s American coach …

Wednesday, 12 April 2017 :  The sport’s governing body said on Tuesday that the seven had all met the “exceptional eligibility criteria” after satisfying the board that they have been training in an environment that passes the necessary anti-doping requirements. Russia’s athletics federation (RUSAF) is suspended after a World Anti-Doping …