Drugs in Sports,Michael Rasmussen

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China sprinter fails doping test at National Games

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Up-and-coming Chinese sprinter Wang Jing, who won the women's 100 metres at the National Games, has been stripped of her title after failing a doping test, organisers said Monday. The 21-year-old Wang, who adamantly denied that she had knowingly taken any banned ...

Disgraced coach Graham says he did nothing wrong

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

Trevor Graham, the disgraced athletics coach who remains banned for life by USA Track and Field, told the New York Times he was innocent in his first public comments about doping since the 2004 Olympics. Graham, the ex-coach of doping disgraced former ...

Drug tests to double at 2010 Winter Olympics

AFP Global Edition 17 days ago

Testing for banned substances at the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will double to nearly 2,500 compared to the 2006 games in Turin Italy, according to an anti-doping official. A team of 30 technicians and seven scientists from the World ...

AP NewsBreak: Congress to look into Vikings case

AP News 30 days ago

AP NewsBreak: Congress to look into blocked suspensions of Vikings players The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to conduct a hearing next month on the case of two professional football players whose suspensions were blocked by a federal appeals court. Committee ...

De Bonis latest Italian to test positive for doping

AFP Global Edition 31 days ago

A day after it was revealed that Italian Gabriele Bosisio had failed a dope test, his countryman Francesco De Bonis has also been flagged as an EPO user. De Bonis tested positive for the new-generation EPO called Cera during the first stage ...

US cyclist Comardo banned for two years

AFP Global Edition 32 days ago

Mitch Comardo, an American cyclist, has tested positive for multiple banned substances and received a two-year doping ban, the US Anti-Doping Agency announced Tuesday. A urine sample taken from Comardo during random out-of-competition testing on August 24 contained Tamoxifen and a metabolite ...

Wickmayer, Malisse to appear before doping agency: media

Reuters US Online Report Sports News 37 days ago

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian U.S. Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer and compatriot Xavier Malisse must appear before a Belgian anti-doping commission after violating its rules, Belgian news agency Belga reported on Thursday. Wickmayer broke the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) "whereabouts" rule three times ...

For some Dominican players, steroids worth risk

AP News 42 days ago

When baseball is the only escape from poverty, some Dominicans see steroids as worth the risk A monument to baseball greets visitors to this city known as "the cradle of shortstops." Children in San Pedro de Macoris grow up playing ball behind ...

Feds fight for key evidence against Bonds

AP News 51 days ago

Feds fight to reverse trial court ruling excluding evidence against Barry Bonds Federal prosecutors urged a federal appellate court to reverse a trial judge and let them present critical evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids. Both sides fielded difficult ...

WADA concerned over Russian doping cases

AFP Global Edition 51 days ago

John Fahey, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has expressed his disquiet at the recent number of positive tests involving Russian athletes. "I am conscious of the number of doping cases in the past several months that involved Russian athletes, I ...

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