2 Beijing Olympic medallists test positive for doping

Olympic Committee has announced positive tests for six athletes from the Beijing Games last year.  The new testing has revealed use of CERA a form of  the blood booster EPO.  Thee track and field...

Lance Armstrong Accused by French Anti-Doping Agency

Lance Armstrong was recently accused by the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) of breaking rules and protocol during an unannounced test last month. Armstrong is facing potential punishment for the accusations....

Barry Bonds' Trainer Injected Him "all over the place"

    New court documents show that Barry Bonds did in fact test positive for three different types of steroids and now his personal trainer has been caught on voice recorder talking to the Giants...

Drug Use Increasing Among MLB Players

    Major League Baseball  authorized 8% of its players to take drugs for ADHD last year, which allows the players to use drugs that are usually banned by the league. This has become a trend...

Athletics coach Graham sentenced to house arrest in doping scandal

Dopping is posing a serious challange to whole philosphy of games. These performance enhancement drugs really hurts the game spirit at its root.In this latest incident atheletics coach have been sentenced to jail...

Lance Armstrong Set To Ride Australia In January

For those of us who have watched the phenomenal performances of Lance Armstrong in his string on victories in the Tour de France this is good news indeed.  His presence at the 2009 Tour will add even more...

IOC to retest Beijing samples

Broke the Olympic doping rules and think you got away with it? Think again.The International Olympic Comitee (IOC) has called for further analysis of all samples taken during the Beijing Games. They are...

New Positive Drug Tests from 2008 Tour de France

If I had to put money down on which riders were rumoured to have been caught, these two would have been at the top of my list. Piepoli, had already declared his guilt to the Saunier Duval team. Shortly after...

Thorpe drops defamation suit against publisher

" Former Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe has dropped a defamation suit against one of five French defendants over reports of an irregular doping test result in 2006, Australian Associated Press reported Monday. ...

Records in Olympic games on general suspicion? – An Opinion

 We’ve seen a lot of new world records in the last day in Beijing. Everybody wonders about Michael Phelps’ great and overwhelming swimming records (medal and world records) and Usain Bolts’ records by declassing the rest of the field twice. But – can it be...

Four Horses doped - disqualified in Beijing

The German rider, Christian Ahlmann, has been suspended from the olympic games. His horse Coester failed a doping test. The banned substance Capsaicin was found found in the horse on Sunday, what the German...

N Korean shooter stripped of medals

By Joe Havely in Beijing "I feel the figures are rather encouraging" --Proffessor Arne Ljungqvist, head of IOC medical commission.  " Two-time North Korean shooting medalist Kim Jong Su has been...

Jamaica worried about many drugs tests

."By Karolos Grohmann BEIJING (Reuters) - Jamaican athletes have undergone an "extremely unusual" number of doping tests since arriving in Beijing for the Olympic Games, potentially harming their performance, the team's chef de mission said on Wednesday. More than 32 blood...

One in 10 Health Supplements Contain Banned Drugs

Experts are expecting at least 40 athletes in this year's Olympic Games to be caught with banned substances in their bloodstream.  It comes in the wake of scientists discovering that of 152 products on the...

German report warns of gene doping in China

There's every reason to be suspicious of the Chinese. They are the largest producer and supplier of doping products in the world. While there is some evidence that the Chinese Olympic...

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