WADA’s fight against doping in sport is under threat due to its funding model and challenges maintaining its independence and impartiality.
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Kenya’s international success in track and field hides management inefficiencies and corruption that have frustrated athletes and fed a pipeline of runners willing to ditch the national flag
In sports, what’s considered fair play has changed throughout history. At one point, even looking ‘too poor’ was grounds for exclusion.
Rarely do we see such unscripted individual honesty on difficult topics such as doping, right in the middle of arguably the biggest international sporting stage.
Banning Kenya from the Rio Olympics would raise questions about the overall inclusiveness of the Games and equality in global sporting opportunities.
The history of the fight against drug taking in sport shows us why we’re in such a mess right now.
Asthma medication can cause trouble for athletes but why are some inhalers alright while others need permission to use?
Health risks loom as weekend athletes aiming to beat their mates become a new frontline for anti-doping.
Having learned some hard lessons with the Essendon case, Australia should lead the way in developing a better approach to drug control and anti-doping in sport.
Fresh details about the findings of the World Anti Doping Authority raise questions about athletics chiefs.
When ASADA issued infraction notices against 34 past or present Essendon footballers, the case was heard – as per World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) protocol – by the anti-doping tribunal of the relevant…
When the integrity of sport lies tarnished, it is the right time to end the merry-go-round of Olympic bids and national oversight over performance and doping.
A massive doping problem in the Lance Armstrong era has inspired some useful reform ideas, but governance issues must be solved as well.
Where can sport go when performance-related doping always seems one step ahead? The WADA report should open the door to a more rational future.
Easy media stereotypes rather than clear evidence attributes performance enhancing drug supplies to organised criminals.
Cycling’s biggest race delivers speed, pain and danger to boost its popularity and profitability. And we wonder why doping leaves such a long shadow.
Drug testing has improved but athletes are finding new ways to get around the rules and the technology.
There may be career-ending sanctions for sportspeople who have inadvertently tested positive to a performance-enhancing drug after having consumed an illicit drug.
The so-called “blackest day” in Australian sport can now instead be described as the precursor to its foggiest period, following the exoneration of 34 Essendon players from taking a banned drug.
There are again questions over Lance Armstrong’s admissions and apologies following a BBC interview in which the former cyclist and confessed drug cheat admitted he would take performance-enhancing substances…
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