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In addition to the publication of an official list of banned substances, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has published a list of banned practices that are considered acts of illegal doping within tennis. Blood doping: includes the use of substances to increase red blood cell levels to regulate oxygen levels within the body, increasing ...
People entered in this category have either: Been suspended by a sporting body (an international governing body, a national federation, or a professional league) for illegal performance-enhancing drug, and/or banned drug, use
Blood doping is the injection of red blood cells, related blood products that contain red blood cells, or artificial oxygen containers. This is done by extracting and storing one's own blood prior to an athletic competition, well in advance of the competition so that the body can replenish its natural levels of red blood cells, and subsequently injecting the stored blood immediately before ...
World No. 1 men's tennis player Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month suspension as part of a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency following two positive doping tests last year.. The 23 ...
Jannik Sinner stunned the tennis world when he agreed to a shortened three-month doping ban in a compromise deal with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) on Saturday. The men’s world No.1 failed ...
Iga Swiatek is the second high-profile tennis player to test positive for a banned substance this year, with the five-time grand slam champion and current World No 2 receiving a one-month ban from ...
British tennis player Greg Rusedski tested positive for nandrolone in January 2004, [38] but was cleared of the charges in a hearing on 10 March 2004. [ 39 ] In August 2014, New York Mets minor league right handed pitcher Derrick Bernard received a 62-game suspension as a result of testing positive for metabolites of nandrolone.
The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or have been suspended by a sports governing body for failure to submit to mandatory drug testing.