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In a Chicago Sun-Times interview that took place in July 2009, Parque admitted using HGH, as he explained that "With my career in jeopardy, I turned to performance-enhancing drugs, like some other players did", Parque wrote for the Sun-Times. "I never had needed them before, but with a shoulder that wouldn't heal, it was realistically the only ...
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.
This table collates the total number of athletes who have been disqualified for doping at the championships by nation. Athletes with multiple disqualifications are counted as one. Where a relay team is disqualified, this is counted as one disqualification, though multiple team members may have been sanctioned. Last updated 17 March 2018
In December 2009, Sports Illustrated named baseball's steroid scandal of performance-enhancing drugs as the number one sports story of the decade of the 2000s. [2] The current penalties, adopted on March 28, 2014, are 80 games for a first offense, 162 games for a second offense, and a permanent suspension ("lifetime ban") for a third. [3]
Ryan Lochte isn't exactly putting his legacy in the best of positions this week. He might join some bad company, actually. 4 Olympic medal winners who ruined their own careers
An investigation of “athlete support personnel” is mandatory when a protected athlete is implicated in a doping case. If doping is proven, a 15-year-old athlete like Valieva faces a maximum ...
A number of legendary athletes, like O.J. Simpson, managed to hit the headlines for bad behavior even after they stopped playing. O.J. Simpson and Other Athletes Who Ruined Their Reputations Later ...