Milwaukee leftfielder Ryan Braun while maintaining his innocence disputed allegations that he took performance-enhancing substances when accepting his National League MVP.
“I always believed that a person’s character is revealed in those moments of adversity,” he said. “I have so much respect for the game of baseball. Everything I’ve done in my career has [...]
Seven months of house arrest and fine of $5,000 has been imposed on Perry Gustav Moore, 45, of Glace Bay, N.S., for his role in a Fredericton-based anabolic steroid trafficking conspiracy.
Moore was one of twenty people who were charged in connection with two-year, joint-forces drug investigation focused in Fredericton, [...]
In some circles, athletic director of the University of Waterloo administered a lethal injection to the football team of his school.
Contemporaries and a Texas-based anti-doping crusader applauded Bob Copeland after he put student-athlete safety ahead of wins and losses.
From Therecord.com:
It was Copeland’s “courageous” act, to order mandatory team testing, which eventually led to [...]
Shot-putter Carl Fletcher has received a suspension of four years after being convicted of trafficking anabolic steroids by UK Anti-Doping.
Fletcher was sentenced to nine months in prison at Liverpool crown court for drug offences including the supply of a number of anabolic steroids, including testosterone, human growth hormone, and Trenbolone, all of which are banned [...]
The chief executive of UK Anti-Doping, Andy Parkinson, has given his backing to the probable attempt by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for settling its increasingly bitter dispute with the world anti-doping authority at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.
Parkinson stressed the need for a speedy settlement with the London Olympics eight [...]
The last-minute withdrawal of some of the best Jamaican horses from the December 3 Caribbean National Racing Challenge raceday at Santa Rosa Park in Trinidad and Tobago has sparked off a firestorm of criticism about drug testing in local racing.
In addition to the Trinidadian runners, 18 local horses were nominated at various stages [...]
Jirí Dvorák, the medical chief of FIFA, has called on anti-doping authorities not to take too hard a line against clenbuterol.
Dvorák said authorities must be more understanding about how and why the substance gets into the body.
From Insideworldfootball.biz:
Last month, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) performed a U-turn by abandoning its appeal to the Court of [...]