The second sample of Ukraine's Olympic heptathlon silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska, who has been provisionally suspended from the Beijing Games, tested positive for steroids, the IOC said on Thursday.
French police have broken up a Marseille-based international doping ring thought to be the biggest in Europe, the government said on Saturday.
India sprinter Dutee Chand has tested positive for prohibited anabolic steroids during an out-of-competition testing and has been provisionally suspended.
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, 200 metres gold medallist at the world indoor athletics championships, tested positive for a banned steroid.
The Olympic Games' central sport is tarnished and discredited even as officials have scrambled to defend its credibility.\n\n
No official is willing to confirm the name of the dope offender
Reetika Hooda, who became the country's first-ever Under-23 World champion in 2023, has been suspended provisionally by NADA for flunking a dope test.
The high-profile and much-delayed trial of a Spanish doctor accused of masterminding a doping ring in cycling got off to an anti-climactic start on Monday when his testimony was postponed until Tuesday.
Legendary athlete Milkha Singh has supported prompt action taken by Sports Minister Ajay Maken, for taking prompt action against Ukrainian Coach and two Indian coaches who were training women athletes at NIS Patiala.
Doping in Indian athletics assumed scandalous proportions after five more athletes, including Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medallist Sini Jose, flunked tests conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency. Jose, top quarter-miler Jauna Murmu, whose samples tested positive on Wednesday, another 400m runner Tiana Mary Thomas, long jumper Hari Krishnan and shot putter Sonia returned positive for anabolic steroids in their 'A' samples.
Olympic women's shot put champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.
Sprinter Dwain Chambers and shot putter Carl Myerscough, who have served doping bans after testing positive for anabolic steroids, were named on Tuesday in the British athletics team for the London Olympics.
The doping menace continues to haunt Indian sport. The National Doping Agency (NADA) on Thursday announced that nine athletes tested positive for banned substances during the National Games, which concluded in Ranchi on February 26.
Ukrainian heptathlete Lyudmila Blonska has been stripped of her Beijing Olympics silver medal after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. She now faces a lifetime ban after what was officially her second doping offence. She returned to competition in 2005 after serving a two-year doping ban.
Many label him the 'Greatest ever sprinter' -- even ahead of Usain Bolt. Benjamin Sinclair 'Ben' Johnson, who presently runs a sports academy in Canada came calling to Goa with two of his wards -- both of whom appeared for trials for I-League champions Salgaocar.
Two leading Indian athletes -- Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu have been suspended and face the prospect of a two-year ban after flunking an out-of-competition dope test.
The IWF said the samples of Oleg Chen and David Bedzhanyan, who are also serving provisional suspensions for separate potential anti-doping violations, contained the same anabolic agent found in Evstyukhina's sample.
In the wake of one of the biggest dope scandals in the country, the government today appointed Justice (retd) Mukul Mudgal to enquire into all aspects of the fiasco.
Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, who failed the dope test, on Wednesday claimed innocence and blamed the vitamin supplements that they consumed on the recommendation of their coach as the source of the anabolic steroids.
India's Neelam J Singh and Vladyslav Piskunov of Ukraine provided the only positive tests at the world athletics championships in Helsinki.
A couple of days after being sacked, India's Ukraine-based athletics coach Yuri Ogorodnik accused Sports Authority of India for poor standards at the NIS Patiala.
Out of those 13 won medals at the Games in Hyderabad.
Two weightlifters from Uzbekistan tested positive for drugs and have been thrown out of the Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia announced on Sunday.
In its report WADA was scornful of the ATP's inconsistent disciplinary process covering the seven cases.
Message board on the ban on Shoaib Akhtar and mohammad Akthar.
PCB banned Shoaib Akhtar for two years and fellow fast bowler Mohammad Asif for one year.
American sprinter LaTasha Jenkins has failed a drugs test, the Chicago Tribune said on its website.
Dwain Chambers is to attend a UK Athletics independent drugs disciplinary hearing on Thursday, British newspapers reported.
With Narsingh Yadav's roommate Sandeep Yadav at the Sports Authority of India Sonepat camp also testing positive for the same banned substance, Wrestling Federation of India said that it strengthens the conspiracy theory and indicates at a clear case of sabotage.
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist was barred from international competition for a positive dope test.
The Middlesbrough defender tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid dianabol after a UEFA Cup tie.
Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Pradeep Sangwan was slapped with an 18-month ban from cricket after being found guilty of consuming a banned anabolic steroid by the BCCI's Anti-Doping Tribunal.
World indoor shot put champion Vita Pavlysh has been banned for life after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol for a second time.
Rugby's anti-doping body said all samples taken during the remainder of the tournament would be tested for the newly-discovered drug.
The former Czech No. 1, who tested positive for nandrolone, was also fined $43,770 and had 100 ranking points deducted.
Weightlifter Sanjita Chanu once again finds herself embroiled in a dope controversy.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favour of USA Track & Field regarding 13 positive US dope tests after the US body refused to name the athletes who failed the tests.
