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Russia slams top-level doping claims as 'treacherous slander'

Fresh allegations of doping at the highest level rock Russian sports, but Moscow calls the claims treacherous slander.

World News

Russia's anti-doping chief alleges Olympic cheat programme

The former head of Russia's anti-doping lab has alleged that dozens of Sochi athletes including 15 medal winners were part of a secret state-run doping programme.

Sport

UCI use iPad to detect mechanical doping

World Cycling’s governing governing body the UCI this week showed off it’s new method of detecting mechanical doping – the sports newest threat. At

Sport

Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho suspended for 30 days

UEFA has provisionally suspended Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho for 30 days after he failed an anti-doping test. The 26-year-old France

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Cycling: Belgian teenager gets six-year ban for mechanical doping

The International cycling announced on Tuesday its Disciplinary Commission has banned Belgian youngster Femke Van den Driessche for six years for

China

WADA suspends China's only anti-doping laboratory for recording erroneous results

Sport

Russia's Olympic fate to be decided in June

The International Athletics Federation is due to hear from its taskforce sent to investigate Russia's new anti-doping regime.

Sport

Team Sky withdraw Sergio Henao from racing in biological passport probe

Cycling's anti-doping foundation has opened a biological passport case against Team Sky rider Sergio Henao.

World News

Meldonium doping suspensions for 14 athletes lifted, as WADA loosens policy

Sport

Putin says meldonium use not an issue, Russia must work closer with sports bodies

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his annual televised phone-in with the Russian people, has spent a portion of the broadcast discussing doping in

Sport

WADA admits cannot say if meldonium users broke doping ban

Maria Sharapova and a host of other top ranking sports stars may be breathing sighs of relief with news from WADA, the world sports anti-doping

United Kingdom

New doping scandal as newspaper reveals claims by UK doctor

The Sunday Times went undercover with a hidden camera to reveal claims by a doctor with patients in the sporting world

Sport

No bombing,no ducking, no doping Russian swimmers under the microscope

Russian swimming is under the microscope after British newspaper The Times splashed an article alleging that the sport has engaged in systematic doping for years.

Sport

Russian world champion Efimova faces life ban after testing positive for meldonium

Sport

Athletics: Russia make progress on anti-doping but not enough to warrant lifting ban

The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Friday that 99 athletes had tested positive for Meldonium since it was placed on the banned

World News

Maria 'Drugapova': game, set and meldonium

Maria Sharapova's staged-managed announcement that she had tested positive for the drug meldonium sent shockwaves through the sporting world and begged the question "what is meldonium?"

Sport

Sharapova doping case not the tip of iceberg - WADA chief Reedie

Maria Sharapova’s recent admission of a failed drug test for Meldonium further shines the spotlight on Eastern European countries’ problems with

Sport

Sharapova drugs admission swamps social media

The world has been reacting to Maria Sharapova's announcement that she tested positive for a banned substance.

Sport

Celebrated speed skater Pechstein attempts to overturn doping ban

Claudia Pechstein, Germany’s most decorated winter Olympian with five gold medals, is continuing her battle against a doping ban. #HappyBirthday to

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Costly drugs test fail for Maria Sharapova as sponsors cut ties

Tennis star Maria Sharapova's failed drug test will cost her dear as Nike, TAG Heuer and Porsche reconsider their sponsorship deals.