Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport - (Tag)

Guest Commentary by Casey Barrett French study reveals: Take a little, take it at night, never fail a test… See your results soar. The next time you hear someone proclaim innocence by pointing to all the drug tests they have passed, try not to laugh. If a cheater is versed in the latest in the dark ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 13. TODAY, FINA released its final decision regarding Russia's Yuliya Efimova and her positive test for 7-keto-DHEA during an out-of-competition test that took place in Los Angeles. FINA elected to imposed a 16-month competition ban retroactive to Oct. 31, 2013 and conclud...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 10. FINA has announced today that a pair of Indonesian swimmers have both been banned two years for positive Methylhexaneamine tests stemming from the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Indra Gunawan On July 1, 2013, a swimmer Indra Gunawan (INA) was tested positive to...

MOSCOW, Russia, June 2. THE Russian sports minister feels his country's swimming federation is one of several sports in danger of suspension from international competition based on recent history of major doping violations. Vitaly Mutko told The Associated Press that the recent high-profile suspensi...

Commentary by Maria Dobysheva The closer Russia gets to the start of hosting its first Aquatic World Championships, the more attention next week's Russian Worlds Trials attracts and the more questions it raises. It's been a troublesome year for Russian elite swimming since one of its leaders, Yulia ...

Following up on an earlier article written by Craig Lord of SwimVortex.com, banned Chinese Doctor Ba Zhen violated his banishment from the sport of swimming and FINA has not taken any additional action required by the World Anti-Doping Agency since the violation was first reported in November of las...

REGENSBURG, Germany, January 17. ONE of Yuliya Efimova's medical advisors has released an interview with the German Academy of Applied Sports Medicine supporting the anti-doping process, and not yet rejecting the alleged positive doping test of Efimova. The president and founder of GAASM, Dr. Homayu...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 4. AFTER appealing FINA's decision to strip him of his men's 1500-meter freestyle title from the World Short Course Championships in 2012 following a positive doping test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport decided today to uphold Mads Glaesner's appeal to retain the ...

By Ben Nichols, WADA Senior Manager, Media Relations and Communications As the global anti-doping community becomes more and more accustomed to the anti-doping rule changes that took effect on 1 January with the introduction of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code, there continues to be a great deal of r...

OTTAWA, Canada, July 8. A doping infraction that has been called "inadvertent" will keep one of Canada's strongest medal hopes away from this month's Commonwealth Games. Swimming Canada released a statement after news came to light of Alec Page's one-month suspension for testing positive for the dru...

MOSCOW, Russia, September 16. RUSSIA was dealt another blow on the positive drug testing front today with the news that short course European champion Sergey Makov is out for two years after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Makov’s suspension for taking ostarine was announced today by FINA ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 28. ON today's edition of The Morning Swim Show Swimming World continues to call for the International Olympic Committee to strip the East German women of the medals won at the Olympic Games during the systematic doping regime. YouTube Measures Views Only For Episodes Watched ...

Who is Dick Pound? A former Canadian swimmer, lawyer, and author. Earned 6th place in the 100m free at the 1960 Olympics and was a four time medalist in the 1962 British Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. Served as a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1978, including as two tim...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) talks with two-time Olympic champion Kirsty Coventry about sporting values, the importance of athletes speaking up and the move towards quality-driven, intelligent testing. Watch This Important and Well-spoken Interview With Kirsty Coventry More News About Kirs...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 21. FOLLOWING a successful FINA appeal, Poland's Mateusz Chaba has been banned a year from competition for a positive doping test. Chaba tested positive for 2-amino-N-ethyl-1-phenylbutan (Class S.6.b Specified Stimulants) on June 16 of last summer at the Polish Swimming Ch...

BELCONNEN, Australia, March 22. SWIMMING Australia has issued a blanket ban on all sleeping pills, including the drug Stilnox that has plagued the organization with negative media publicity in the past two years. Though the federation had not allowed the drug among its elite athletes at the London O...

By Rokur Jakupsstovu, Swimming World Scandinavian Correspondent HERNING, Denmark, May 13. WHILE many in the Russian swimming community found relief that Yuliya Efimova's doping ban will end in time for her to make a run at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, not everyone in Europe is totally happ...

FINA handed two-year doping bans to a swimmer and a diver today, one from Iran and the other from Colombia. Raham Pieman Piervani tested positive for letrozole at a local swim meet this January. The drug is normally used to treat breast cancer patients and gives women pre-menopausal side effects. It...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 18. IN what is becoming a scourge of the sport of swimming worldwide, Methylhexaneamine has struck down another swimmer as FINA has announced two more doping bans from Italy and Australia.  If you've been following FINA's anti-doping reports in recent years, you will kno...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 2. SINCE this show did not air last Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday, we're going to present you with the top five swimming-related headlines of the past TWO weeks. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get things started with the number five headline. Note: YouTube Measure...