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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.
Diuretics, sometimes known as ‘water pills,’ are drugs that alter the body's fluid and salt balance, increasing urine production. [10] They are used for the swelling and bloating of premenstrual syndrome, for treating high blood pressure, and in older people for heart failure caused by weakening of the heart's pumping mechanism.
The BALCO scandal was a scandal involving the use of banned performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was a San Francisco Bay Area business which supplied anabolic steroids to professional athletes. In 2002 the US federal government investigated the laboratory. [1]
First, by decreasing water retention and thus decreasing an athlete's weight, an important consideration in many speed sports (e.g. track and field, speed skating), they increase the speed of an athlete. Secondly, increased urine production depletes the concentration of both the banned drugs and their metabolites, making their detection more ...
Name Country Sport Year of violation Anti-doping rule violation / Banned substance(s) Sanction Reference(s) Fritz Aanes Norway Greco-Roman wrestling Norandrosterone, Noretiocholanolone
The first positive test for the Summer Olympics goes as far back as 1968. For the Winter Olympics, the first athlete caught doping came in 1972.
Doping, or the use of restricted performance-enhancing drugs in the United States occurs in different sports, most notably in the sports of baseball and football. As of a 2024 study, 2.2% of U.S. athletes have self-reported to using anabolic steroids, peptide hormones, or blood manipulation. When beta-2 agonist inhalers and marijuana are ...
In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes, as a way of cheating.As stated in the World Anti-Doping Code by WADA, doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the anti-doping rule violations outlined in Article 2.1 through Article 2.11 of the Code. [1]