After finalising the London 2012 re-analysis program on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Testing Agency (ITA) will now take on the further probing of samples that were collected during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The objective is to complete the Sochi re-analysis program, including the handling of the resulting cases, before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. [Read more…]
The scourge of doping in skiing continues
Doping in Sport – On the 27th February 2019, raids were conducted in both Austria and Germany in relation to “a doping network operating worldwide”. At the time the Nordic skiing world championships were taking place at the Austrian town of Seefeld. [Read more…]
The Demonising of Chris Froome
August 2018 – The 2018 edition of the Tour De France, yet again, showed the negative side of the public and their treatment of Chris Froome. [Read more…]
WADA provisionally suspends Paris Laboratory
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has provisionally suspended the WADA accreditation of the Laboratory of the Agence Française de lutte contre le Dopage (the National Anti-Doping Organization of France) in Châtenay-Malabry, France (Paris Laboratory). This provisional suspension was imposed due to analytical issues self-reported to WADA by the Laboratory. [Read more…]
IAAF challenges antidoping allegations
Antidoping – The IAAF has carefully considered the statement issued on 5 August 2015 by scientists Michael Ashenden and Robin Parisotto and believes it contains a number of seriously incorrect assertions which the IAAF has a duty to correct. [Read more…]
Lance Armstrong Retribution
This is not about whether Armstrong doped, this is about what he did to protect that he doped and the lives he destroyed in the process. People should stop looking at the man’s PR but look at the man himself and what he did when he thought he had the power to destroy. [Read more…]