Kenyan Kibiwott Kandie, a former runner-up in the world half marathon, has been provisionally suspended for an anti- doping ...

Germany's most successful winter Olympian Claudia Pechstein has ended her speed skating career, she said in a news conference ...

During the 1990s, ‘blood doping’ in the form of rHuEPO use and/or blood transfusions became widespread. In response, the IFs such as the International Cycling Union (UCI), FIFA and the IOC introduced ...

Erythropoietin was part of Lance Armstrong's doping regimen, which led to one of the most dramatic falls from grace in sporting history. The drug is part of a practice called blood doping.

chuv.ch Objective and method: To outline the direct and indirect approaches in the fight against blood doping in sports, the different strategies that have been used and are currently being used to ...

The UCI created the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) programme in 2008 as an indirect way to detect blood doping because traditional anti-doping tests for blood boosters like EPO were only ...

Austrian investigators have launched an inquiry that could ensnare dozens of elite athletes in summer and winter Olympic sports in a major blood doping scandal. The inquiry was prompted by a ...

American Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar has been handed a four-year ban for blood doping. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) said Brinegar, 24, had irregularities between July to ...

A new undetectable doping trick that would help athletes to move faster for longer is being investigated by authorities. Experiments performed on mice by Prof James McCully of Harvard Medical ...

The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state set against the ongoing attempts to catch the cheats. There are a number of shortcuts used by athletes and ...