Mumbai: The London Olympics is all set to go down in history as the most dope-tested Games with more than 6,000 samples expected to be analysed, the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has said. "These will be the most [dope] tested Games in Olympic history, and doping athletes must know that they will be under severe scrutiny of anti-doping officials from the moment they set foot in the Olympic Village,"...
02:23 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Washington: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong and he has been immediately banned from competition in triathlons as a result, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France winner, denied the charges in a statement: "I have never doped, and, unlike many of my accusers, I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no...
08:34 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Beijing: Chinese athletes training hard to take part in London Olympics virtually turned vegetarian, giving up meat products due to fears of disqualification by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Yang Hongbo, head of catering for 700 always-hungry, high-performance athletes at the Jiangsu Sports Training Centre, said he is having a terrible time to find beef that is "safe" for his charges to eat. He is worried if the athletes eat the...
10:03 PM, May 07, 2012
Madrid: Rafael Nadal says he underwent a surprise doping test toward the end of a week in which the Spaniard was at the center of jokes made by a French TV programme about his country's alleged ties to doping. Nadal wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday: "8:30 in the morning!!!Just finished passing a surprise antidoping test...it was expected after everything...but I'm happy it's like this!" The Spanish sports ministry...
06:04 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Madrid: The Spanish tennis federation said it plans to sue a French TV channel for using its logo in a video that poked fun at Rafael Nadal. In the video skit on the satirical programme called The Puppets, a life-size cartoon figure of Nadal is shown urinating into a gas tank before racing off and being pulled over by police for speeding. A message of "Spanish athletes. They don't win...
11:45 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The appeals hearing on the one-year ban on India's four top quarter-milers, including Asian Games double gold medalist Ashwini Akkunji, before a National Anti-Doping Agency panel was adjourned on Wednesday for January 27. The NADA Appeals panel, headed by Justice (retd) CK Mahajan, fixed January 27 as the date for hearing after the apex anti-doping agency sought more time to study the appeals. Akkunji, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary...
08:29 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel, which on Friday handed one-year bans to India's six top women athletes, in its findings concluded that the bottles of 'Ginseng Kinapi Pil' given by sacked coach Yuri Ogorodnik were contaminated and contained banned substances. The three-member panel, headed by retired district judge Dinesh Dayal, found out that the four bottles of contaminated food supplement (Ginseng), procured by Ukrainian coach Ogorodnik from the Chinese...
07:45 PM, Dec 23, 2011
The one-man committee comprising of Mukul Mudgal felt that the banned substances were not taken deliberately. ...
03:50 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Wednesday transferred the dope cases of quarter-milers Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). The disciplinary panel of the AFI that met here decided to refer the cases of the two dope-tainted runners on the recommendations of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). The two athletes failed out-of-competition dope tests conducted by the World Anti-Doping Agency...
10:20 AM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: India's premier sports institute - National Institute of Sports (NIS), Patiala - has been demerged from the Sports Authority of India in the wake of the athletics doping scandal, Sports Minister Ajay Maken announced on Wednesday. Maken said that the NIS Patiala will now be made an autonomous 'Institution of National Importance' with the aim to produce better home coaches and thereby reducing the dependence on foreign experts...
06:04 PM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: India's premier sports institute - National Institute of Sports (NIS), Patiala - has been demerged from the Sports Authority of India in the wake of the athletics doping scandal, Sports Minister Ajay Maken announced on Wednesday. Maken said that the NIS Patiala will now be made an autonomous 'Institution of National Importance' with the aim to produce better home coaches and thereby reducing the dependence on foreign experts...
06:04 PM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: Firm on bringing an end to the doping menace in Indian sports, a National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) team on Saturday raided the Sports Authority of India (SAI) offices in Bhopal. The team included five NADA officials and is expected to collect urine samples of the campers and search the office for presence of any banned substances. The crackdown is part of a series of raids conducted over the...
10:06 AM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: The disciplinary panel of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Friday adjourned the hearing into the doping cases of quarter-milers Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu until July 20. Mandeep and Juana, who failed in out-of-competition tests of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were represented by their advocates Sandeep Khatri and Rajat Bharadwaj. AFI had to adjourn the hearing as the documentation of the their A and...
08:53 AM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: A day after he was roughed up by security officials at Patiala, former National Institute of Sports (NIS) medical officer Dr. Sajib Nandi on Thursday said he has "substantial evidence" to back his claim of organised doping going on at the institute with involvement of top officials. Nandi, who was physically assaulted and denied entry into the NIS Patiala on Wednesday, met Sports Minister Ajay Maken here and...
03:00 PM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: Sacked athletics coach, Yuri Ogorodnik, left India on Wednesday even as investigations into the doping scandal, which has rocked Indian sports, continues. The coach, held responsible for the dope flunk of six athletes in the last couple of weeks, was fired by Sports Minister Ajay Maken a day after the news broke out. However, the Ukrainian defended himself, saying that he has no role in the scandal and...
12:38 PM, Jul 14, 2011
Patiala: Dr. Sanjib Nandi, the former Sports Authority of India (SAI) medical officer who blew the whistle on the illegal doping practices in National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala, was on Wednesday beaten up by the security personnel at the NIS campus. The incident happened when Dr. Nandi was trying to take an appointment to meet Justice Mukul Mudgul who is due to visit the NIS. In an exclusive ...
04:05 PM, Jul 13, 2011
Patiala: Dr. Sanjib Nandi, the former Sports Authority of India (SAI) medical officer who blew the whistle on the illegal doping practices in National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala, was on Wednesday beaten up by the security personnel at the NIS campus. The incident happened when Dr. Nandi was trying to take an appointment to meet Justice Mukul Mudgul who is due to visit the NIS. In an exclusive...
04:05 PM, Jul 13, 2011
Indore: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Tuesday expressed her displeasure over the dope scandal involving Indian athletes and said that they should be handed stringent punishment if found guilty. Of the eight athletes who tested positive seven were women. The list included double Asian Games gold medalist Ashwini Akkunji. "Being a sportsperson myself, I think any of these athletes should not be accused of doing anything wrong until proven....
03:39 PM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: Dope tainted athlete Ashwini Akkunji's London Olympics dreams are virtually over as her 'B' sample also tested positive for anabolic steroids and she now faces the prospect of a two-year ban for her offence. Another quartermiler Priyanka Panwar's 'B' sample also tested positive for anabolic steroids. Ashwini and Priyanka had their 'B' samples tested on Thursday at the National Dope Testing Laboratory here and the results, which came ...
03:12 PM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: Dope tainted athlete Ashwini Akkunji's London Olympics dreams are virtually over as her 'B' sample also tested positive for anabolic steroids and she now faces the prospect of a two-year ban for her offence. Another quartermiler Priyanka Panwar's 'B' sample also tested positive for anabolic steroids. Ashwini and Priyanka had their 'B' samples tested on Thursday at the National Dope Testing Laboratory here and the results, which came...
03:12 PM, Jul 11, 2011
