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The use of performance-enhancing drugs (doping in sport) is prohibited within the sport of athletics.Athletes who are found to have used such banned substances, whether through a positive drugs test, the biological passport system, an investigation or public admission, may receive a competition ban for a length of time which reflects the severity of the infraction.
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.
In June 2013, professional cyclist Nikita Novikov was provisionally suspended after a possible breach of anti-doping rules, due to a positive A-sample result for enobosarm. [ 75 ] UFC Fighter Tim Means was pulled from a fight in February 2017 after testing positive for enobosarm in a pre-fight drug screening administered by USADA.
Details of the Chinese doping scandal. ... China's most famous swimmer, Sun Yang, was not among the 23; he was, and still is, serving a yearslong ban in a separate doping case. (In a third ...
If Valieva ends up being punished, she'd be one of the most famous Olympic athletes ensnared in a doping scandal. Johnson, Jones highlight most infamous Olympic doping cases Skip to main content
In 1998, he was involved in a major doping scandal during the Tour de France, namely the Festina affair. For his involvement in doping in the Française des Jeux team, he got a 9-month prison term on probation in December 2000. In April 2007, he exposed the doping practices of the Team Telekom in the 1990s, and admitted his own use of ...
Perhaps one of the most famous scandals came out of the 1994 games in Lillehammer when ice skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked with a baton to the knee, and her longtime Olympic rival, Tonya ...
Russian doping scandal – Russia has the most (51) Olympic medals stripped for doping violations – four times the number of the second country (Belarus). From 2011 to 2015, more than a thousand Russian competitors in various sports, including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports, benefited from a cover-up [ 25 ] with no indication that the ...