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Russia's Kamila Valieva attends a training session on 12 February 2022 prior the Figure Skating Event at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Picture: Picture: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP

Doping

Russian Olympic doping scandal - how did we get here?

By AFP

The 15-year-old figure skater became the first woman in history to produce a quadruple jump at an Olympics to help Russia win team gold on Monday.

  • Britain's Chijindu Ujah competes in the men's 4x100m relay heats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on 5 August 2021. Picture: Javier Soriano/AFP

    B sample confirms British Olympic silver medallist Ujah's doping positive

    If Team GB are disqualified, Canada would take silver with China promoted to bronze-medal position.

    335 days ago
  • FILE: Gold medallist South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga celebrates after the final of the men’s long jump athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London on 5 August 2017. Picture: AFP.

    SA long jump star Luvo Manyonga breaks silence on his 4-year ban

    The apology comes after the Manyonga was handed a four-year ban in June for failing to make himself available for drug testing three times in a 12-month period under the sport's 'whereabouts' criteria. He will miss the Olympic Games which start on Friday.

    392 days ago
  • Bahrain Victorious' Slovenian rider Matej Mohoric (centre). Picture: @BHRVictorious/Twitter

    Anti-doping raid will prove our innocence, says Tour de France stage winner

    It was Matej Mohoric's second win on this edition of the Tour, and was achieved after he joined an early break and then broke clear for a solo win at Libourne, with the main peloton several minutes adrift.

    395 days ago
  • Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska. Picture: @D_Yastremska/Twitter.

    Yastremska cleared to play after doping ban squashed

    The 21-year-old, ranked 29 in the world at the end of 2020, received an initial ban after testing positive for a banned anabolic agent, mesterolone metabolite, used in male infertility treatment.

    418 days ago
  • Journalists stands in the lobby of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) foundation board in Baku on 15 November 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Increased doping in pandemic 'not a particular worry', says WADA chief

    With just one month to go before the Tokyo Olympics, Olivier Niggli, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), told AFP in an interview that testing levels had made a significant, and timely, recovery.

    419 days ago
  • US sprinter Christian Coleman. Picture: @iaaforg/Twitter

    US sprinter Coleman's suspension upheld, reduced to 18 months: CAS

    Coleman was suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit last December for two years from 14 May, 2020 after failing to turn up for tests three times in a 12-month-period.

    486 days ago
  • In this file photograph taken on November 3, 2020, Ajax's Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana looks on during the UEFA Champions League football match FC Midtjylland vs Ajax Amsterdam at MCH Arena in Herning. Picture: Bo Amstrup / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP.

    Ajax goalkeeper Onana suspended one year for doping

    The club said in a statement Onana had 'mistakenly' taken his wife's medicine, which had led to the banned diuretic Furosemide appearing in his urine.

    556 days ago
  • FILE: China's Sun Yang celebrates his victory in the 200m freestyle event at the FINA World Championships on 23 July in Gwangju, South Korea. Picture: @fina1908/Twitter

    Chinese star swimmer Sun Yang's 8-year doping ban overturned

    The 29-year-old - the first Chinese swimmer to win Olympic gold - will now have a chance to state his case again at a second hearing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), based in the Swiss city of Lausanne, before the Tokyo games next year.

    599 days ago
  • Aphiwe Dyantyi reacts after scoring a try during the Rugby Championship match between South Africa and Australia at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on 29 September 2018. Picture: AFP

    Four-year doping ban for Springbok Dyantyi confirmed

    The 26-year-old winger from Johannesburg franchise the Lions tested positive for metandienone, methyltestosterone and LGD-4033 while attending a Springbok camp last year.

    609 days ago
  • FILE: Forward Chiliboy Ralepelle during a Springbok training session in Cape Town on 13 August 2012. Picture: EWN

    Ex-Springbok 'Chiliboy' Ralepelle loses appeal against 8-year doping ban

    The independent appeal panel upheld the former Springbok rugby player's eight-year doping ban after he tested positive for the banned anabolic agent, Zeranol, during a Sharks rugby training session on 17 January 2019.

    641 days ago
  • FILE: Christian Coleman competes in the Men's 60 Meter semifinal during the 2020 Toyota USATF Indoor Championships at Albuquerque Convention Center on 15 February 2020 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Picture: AFP

    World 100m champion Coleman to appeal two-year ban

    Coleman, who won the men's 100 metres at last year's World Championships in Doha in a world-leading time for the season of 9.76 seconds, was provisionally suspended for three 'whereabouts failures' in June.

    656 days ago
  • US sprinter Christian Coleman. Picture: @iaaforg/Twitter

    World 100m champion Coleman suspended for two years

    The American, who won the men's 100 metres at last year's world championships in Doha, was provisionally suspended for three 'whereabouts failures' in June. World Athletics' Disciplinary Tribunal upheld the charge and banned Coleman for two years, backdated to 14 May, 2020.

    657 days ago
  •  Arkea-Samsic team leader Nairo Quintana leads a group of cyclists during a stage of the 2020 Tour de France. Picture: @Arkea_Samsic/Twitter

    'Nothing to hide' - Tour de France team leader denies doping

    Police detained two people from the Arkea-Samsic team on Monday. French daily Le Parisien reported that they were a doctor and physiotherapist.

    691 days ago
  • Riders enter Paris on the final day of the Tour de France. Picture: @Arkea_Samsic/Twitter

    Two in custody in Tour de France doping probe

    The probe is the first significant one in several years for the repeatedly scandal-hit tour which wrapped up on Sunday in Paris with a victory for 21-year-old Tadej Pogacar, who became the youngest winner in more than a century.

    692 days ago
  • FILE: Wilson Kipsang of Kenya (L) is congratulated by compatriot Geoffrey Mutai after winning the men's 2014 TCS New York City Marathon 2 November 2014 in New York. Picture: AFP

    Four-year ban for Kenyan marathon star Kipsang over doping rules violation

    Kipsang, who claimed the world record during the 2013 Berlin marathon and is the only person to have beaten current holder Eliud Kipchoge over the distance, was found guilty of 'whereabouts failures and tampering by providing false evidence and witness testimony'.

    773 days ago
  • FILE: President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Sebastian Coe gives a speech to award the world record holders during the IAAF World Athletics Awards ceremony, on 23 November 2019, in Monaco. Picture: AFP

    Athletics chiefs put Russia on hold as world champion threatens to quit 'chaos'

    RusAF had until 1 July to send the global body a $5 million (4.45 million euro) fine and $1.31 million in other costs following accusations it had helped 2017 world high jump silver medallist Danil Lysenko avoid a sanction for failing to comply with anti-doping measures.

    774 days ago
  • US sprinter Christian Coleman. Picture: @iaaforg/Twitter

    World 100m champion Coleman suspended over new missed test

    The American sprinter is "suspended temporarily from participating in any competition or activity", said the Athletics Integrity Unit, World Athletics' anti-doping arm.

    789 days ago
  • FILE: Second placed Kenya's Daniel Wanjiru poses with his trophy after the half marathon elite men's race during the inaugural The Big Half in London on 4 March 2018. Picture: AFP

    Former London Marathon winner Wanjiru provisionally suspended

    The AIU noted on their official website on Tuesday that a charge had been issued against Wanjiru for “use of a prohibited substance/method”.

    852 days ago
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