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Tennis doping issue: ’Scared’, ‘stressful’, ‘political’- Players from Andrey Rublev to Jasmine Paolini open up at Madrid Masters 1000

April 23, 2025 8:52 pm

Andrey Rublev said: “The doping issue scares me quite a bit. We players have to say where we are every day, and you have to remember where you've been, because if you forget and they come for a test and you're not there, it's a foul."

WADA explains why Jannik Sinner got 3-month ban for Clostebol, but figure skater was handed 6-year ban

February 17, 2025 10:59 pm

WADA pointed out that while both cases involved the same substance, the specific facts related to Barquero's case were “very different” to Sinner's.

New twist in Jannik Sinner doping case? World Anti-Doping Agency enters the discussion

September 28, 2024 5:35 pm

The tribunal's finding of "no fault or negligence" was not correct under the applicable rules, WADA said in a statement. WADA said it would seek "a period of ineligibility of between one and two years" for Italy's Sinner, who won the Australian Open and the U.S. Open this year

US Open 2024: Jannik Sinner fired two of his team members over his positive steroid tests in March

August 24, 2024 5:52 pm

Sinner’s fitness trainer, Umberto Ferrara, and his physiotherapist, Giacomo Naldi, have been at the 23-year-old Italian’s side during his rise over the past two years

Jannik Sinner let off: A not-so-harmless kiss, a strawberry dessert, contaminated toothpaste, CIA conspiracy – other weird reasons put forth for failed dope tests

August 23, 2024 8:23 am

Italian World No.1 tennis player claimed masseur massaged him with contaminated cream, and was exonerated.

Will India lose a boxing Olympics spot due to anti doping rule violation?

May 17, 2024 5:13 pm

The International Test Agency (ITA), which is overseeing the anti-doping programme for boxing at the Olympics, alleged the said boxer did not file her whereabouts details as per the World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

Games on steroids? Inside an Indian-origin man’s plan to organise Enhanced Games

July 10, 2023 8:13 am

Half-Indian Aron D’Souza claims 356 individuals have “expressed interest” in competing at the Enhanced Games; says scientists, including a renowned geneticist working at Harvard, are backing his audacious plan.

‘Ethically, this is wrong’: India weightlifting coach fumes as North Korea’s lifters return from exile

May 25, 2023 7:40 am

Mirabai Chanu’s task gets challenging with North Korea’s reentry. North Korea’s weightlifters have not been tested since December 2019. Chanu had to undergo dope tests eight times in 2021 and 2022 alone

Dope offender Dipa Karmakar's return to training camp as per WADA rules, says gymnastics federation

May 19, 2023 12:09 am

Regulations allow Dipa Karmakar, who finished fourth at the Olympics, to join two months before suspension ends.

Kenyan distance runner Rhonex Kipruto suspended for suspected doping

May 17, 2023 4:56 pm

Rhonex Kipruto won a bronze medal in the 10,000-meter race at the 2019 world championships

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