When weightlifting coach Michael Gingras was banned for 12 years, he became part of the more than 200 sports persons who has been sanctioned with a ban longer than ten years.
61 athletes from Kenya has been banned for use of doping. 58 of these competed in the sport of athletics. Of these 26 were women.
A Canadian weightlifter was the latest athlete to be sanctioned after testing positive for clenbuterol. She claimed contaminated food was the reason for the positive test.
101 athletes have so far been registered in the Anti-Doping Database for failing to provide whereabout information. US athletes tops the statistics.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) has in its appeal to the Court of Arbitration and Sport (CAS) stated they want a reasonably extended sanction for the Norwegian Cross Country skier Therese Johaug.
The International Olympic Committee want to create an independent testing authority (ITA) to develop and govern an International Test Distribution Plan (IDTP).
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued decisions concerning Russian race walker Stanislav Emelyanov, Russian middle distance runner Ekaterina Poistogova and Russian athletics coaches Vladimir Kazarin and Alexey Melnikov.
The Russian deputy prime minister is questioning the testing method to detect Oral-Turinabol.
All test results for urine, blood and serum collected from the members of Kazakhstan National Biathlon Team came back negative.
Montreal, 6 March 2017 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) today welcomes an additional contribution of USD 50,000 from the Republic of Poland, which is to be dedicated towards the Agency’s enhanced intelligence gathering and investigations activities. The contribution is additional to Poland’s 2016 annual contribution of USD 181,561, which was an increase of USD 4,610 over 2015.