Athletics has been hit by more allegations of cheating but what is doping and how do banned drugs help athletes?

It also banned all Russian competitors with previous doping convictions from competing, although other athletes who have served their punishments - US sprinter Justin Gatlin, for example - will be ...

What exactly does "fairness" in sports mean? By David Baron, MD, Past President of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and member of the GAP Committee on Psychopharmacology. Doping ...

Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test, once again raising questions about horse doping in the sport when the colt’s blood sample was found to be in violation of the … ...

Their victories at the All England Club have reopened debate in tennis and the wider sporting world about their cases. Is it ...

Chelsea's Mykhailo Mudryk has been banned for doping and could face a ban for up to four years, but here's what it could mean for the club.

Researchers are developing AI programmes to make doping detection more effective, faster, and cheaper. How do these systems ...

Does Blood Doping Even Work? ... He says that just because so many top athletes haven’t participated in these studies, it doesn’t mean that EPO doesn’t work on them.

Multiple investigations by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revealed state-sponsored doping programs that ran from 2011 to 2015 and involved more than 1,000 athletes in at least 30 sports.

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