Doping in sports continues making headlines as the U.S. Justice Department investigates state-sponsored doping by dozens of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee defines doping as "the ...
May 25, 2016
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Decades after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1990s media exposé of East German abuses – systematically administered performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to Olympics-bound top-level athletes, without the athletes' ...
Apr 25, 2016
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Pressure to be perfect from parents makes young male athletes positive about doping, research from the University of Kent shows.
Feb 25, 2016
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The use of banned drugs and substances and other prohibited practices – doping – has been a problem at the elite levels of cycling for a very long time. There is evidence now that doping happens in amateur levels of cycling ...
Feb 5, 2016
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Despite the glitz and glory of Usain Bolt's comeback victories and Jessica Ennis-Hill's heptathlon triumph at the World Championships, 2015 is shaping up as quite the annus horribilis for athletics.
Sep 1, 2015
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There has been a huge amount of academic, policy, and public debate over the years about doping in sport (i.e. the use of banned performance enhancing substances or drugs and other prohibited practices), and significant resources ...
Jun 23, 2015
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Doping is damaging the image of sport without benefitting athletes' results, according to University of Adelaide research.
May 4, 2015
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Blood and urine samples taken from athletes to spot signs of doping should be stored for 10 years, to enable technology to catch up with substances that currently evade detection, says a consensus statement of international ...
Apr 24, 2014
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Some of the world's biggest drugmakers are playing a larger role in anti-doping efforts at this year's Winter Olympics: They're providing information on drugs that once would have been considered proprietary trade secrets.
Feb 7, 2014
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A year after the "darkest day in Australian sport" the catastrophic bang has led to an all too predictable whimper.
Feb 7, 2014
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