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Forget poos in the Seine. Doping is the biggest concern at the Olympics
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Paris 2024

Forget poos in the Seine. Doping is the biggest concern at the Olympics

Confidence in WADA’s ability stop drug cheats is at rock-bottom after it was cleared of mishandling of a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers.

  • by Andrew Webster

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Wilkie doubles down on blackmail claim by AFL player’s family

Wilkie doubles down on blackmail claim by AFL player’s family

AFL says that Sport Integrity Australia had not received information about the alleged extortion attempt.

  • by Danny Russell
Anti-doping watchdog clears AFL, urges players’ hair testing results to be made public

Anti-doping watchdog clears AFL, urges players’ hair testing results to be made public

Sport Integrity Australia warned the AFL must bolster its “intelligence capability to manage emerging threats to the game’s integrity” through illicit drugs, but found the program highlighted by Andrew Wilkie was not against anti-doping rules. 

  • by Michael Gleeson
Out of harm’s way: AFL’s mental health boss on drugs policy, weight ban
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Out of harm’s way: AFL’s mental health boss on drugs policy, weight ban

Dr Kate Hall, who treated AFL players with drug and mental health issues in her previous life as a clinical psychologist, says the league is focused on “harm minimisation”.

  • by Jake Niall
Chinese doping scandal has muddied the waters for clean athletes in Paris
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Chinese doping scandal has muddied the waters for clean athletes in Paris

Athletes lining up at next month’s Olympics, with no known doping skeletons in the closet, face a harsh reality of the unknown unknowns.

  • by Darren Kane
Why the China doping scandal has created a crisis of faith and suspicion

Why the China doping scandal has created a crisis of faith and suspicion

It must be traumatic for any athlete to discover, three years on, that they competed at an Olympics against rivals who, very likely, shouldn’t have been there.

  • by Darren Kane
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The wait of history: How and why East German medals should be reallocated
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Doping

The wait of history: How and why East German medals should be reallocated

The GDR athletes were victims of doping, too. But if just a fraction of the 489 medals they won over nine Games were reallocated, it might be a worthwhile and cathartic exercise.

  • by Darren Kane
Chinese checkers and the WADA cone of silence

Chinese checkers and the WADA cone of silence

The thing about a cover-up is that there’s nothing to see. It’s the smell that gives it away.

  • by Greg Baum
Australian swimming coach caught up in China drugs scandal
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Australian swimming coach caught up in China drugs scandal

Veteran Australian swimming coach Denis Cotterell has vehemently rejected claims of systemic doping in Chinese swimming after a drug scandal rocked the sport.

  • by Tom Decent
WADA makes drug testing changes after Bol ‘disaster’

WADA makes drug testing changes after Bol ‘disaster’

Drug testers will alter how they test for the endurance drug EPO after a World Anti-Doping Agency review prompted by Australian Olympian Peter Bol’s case.

  • by Michael Gleeson
Five horses from five stables tested positive to a breast cancer drug. No one knows why

Five horses from five stables tested positive to a breast cancer drug. No one knows why

The mystery of how traces of a breast cancer drug appeared in urine samples taken from five different thoroughbreds, trained by five different stables and racing at five different tracks, might never be solved.

  • by Danny Russell