CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday denied American golfer Doug Barron's request to lift a 12-month ban for a doping violation, ...
The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) said on Monday that it had postponed a hearing into Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde's appeal against ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has applauded the steps taken by golf to combat doping but believes more could be done to achieve full transparency in its policing. Little-known American Doug Barron on Monday became the first golfer ...
Waxman says court decisions threaten progress on curtailing drug use in sports A key lawmaker said Tuesday that recent court decisions blocking suspensions of two NFL players threaten to undermine progress made in reducing performance-enhancing drug use among athletes at all levels. ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - American journeyman Doug Barron achieved unwanted fame on Monday when he became the first golfer to receive a ban for taking a performance-enhancing drug. In a statement the PGA Tour said Barron, 40, had been suspended for a year ...
FILE -- This is a March 17, 2005, file photo showing Mark McGwire testifying on Capitol Hill during a hearing on the use of steroids in professional baseball. The Cardinals said Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, that Tony La Russa had agreed to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
