The Week In Sports: Olympic Athletes And Doping NPR's Scott Simon talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about doping among Olympic athletes. They also remember a young athlete who died this week.

The Olympics, baseball, track and cycling, among others, continue to struggle with the problem of doping, despite threat of sanctions. Sports fans are trying to digest news that never quite goes away.

It was a body blow to a sport long troubled by rumors of doping. Not only that, but Silva’s opponent in that fight, Nick Diaz, also allegedly tested positive for marijuana in a post-fight test.

Image caption, The issue of doping in sport has been a concern since the 1920s. 20 August 2015. ... especially when complicating factors such as training at altitude are factored in ...

How do athletes get away with doping? Since it was established in 2000, WADA has attempted to bring consistency to anti-doping procedures and testing across all sports and countries.

We’ve tried blame. We’ve tried shame. We’ve tried hard punishment. But on the doping-in-sports front, we’re making very little real progress. Suspicion still reigns. Chemists remain ahead ...

His seven Tour de France victories were fueled not just by relentless training and natural ability, but by an elaborate doping scheme that eventually stripped him of his titles. He would later attempt ...

Medscape interviewed Gary I. Wadler, MD, Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), about doping in sports and the systems designed to catch and prevent it.

Realizing the inevitability of this new form of doping posing a risk to sports, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an international agency that monitors sports doping, added gene doping to the list ...

The war on drugs in sports is failing and must inevitably fail. Paradoxically, the zero-tolerance approach to doping is ruining sports. We should allow drugs in competitive sports for three reasons.

THE menace of doping has tainted the ongoing 22nd National Sports Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State. At least 14 athletes have tested positive for banned substances. These athletes were selected ...