Performance enhancers, secret syringes, and shattered reputations—sports history has seen its fair share of scandal. When ...

chuv.ch Objective and method: To outline the direct and indirect approaches in the fight against blood doping in sports, the different strategies that have been used and are currently being used to ...

will be taken aside after their event and brought to a private testing room. There, they’ll produce a urine or blood sample under an anti-doping official’s watch. The athlete will label ...

“It seems that some athletes don’t care much,” said Lundby of the health dangers associated with blood doping erythropoietin (EPO) used by bikers and runners. Misuse of EPO and other ...

Austrian investigators have launched an inquiry that could ensnare dozens of elite athletes in summer and winter Olympic sports in a major blood doping scandal. The inquiry was prompted by a ...

Erythropoietin was part of Lance Armstrong's doping regimen, which led to one of the most dramatic falls from grace in sporting history. The drug is part of a practice called blood doping.

It works by increasing blood flow to the heart and limiting rapid swings in blood ... It has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) list of prohibited substances since 2014. It is currently ...

The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state set against the ongoing attempts to catch the cheats. There are a number of shortcuts used by athletes and ...

Pechstein, 53, Germany's most successful winter Olympian with nine medals including five gold and still active, was banned ...

With the organization's acting chief executive stressing the need to be proactive, the British Horseracing Authority is to introduce testing for gene doping as part of its anti-doping regime with ...

chuv.ch Objective and method: To outline the direct and indirect approaches in the fight against blood doping in sports, the different strategies that have been used and are currently being used to ...