American sprinter Erriyon Knighton has been handed a four-year ban, ruling the 21-year-old out of the 2028 Los Angeles Games, Afrosport reports. The two-time Olympic finalist tested positive for the anabolic steroid – trenbolone – in March 2024, a banned substance used for muscle growth. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on Friday that its panel upheld appeals from both the World Anti-Doping Agency...
World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) general counsel Ross Wenzel says the case of Jannik Sinner was "a million miles away from doping", Afrosport reports. Sinner was handed an immediate three-month ban by WADA on Saturday after reaching a settlement over his two positive drug tests last year. The 23-year-old was cleared of any wrongdoing by an independent panel after testing positive for banned e clostebol in March...
The doping case of Jannik Sinner will be heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) between April 16 and 17, 2025, Afrosport reports The Italian world number one was cleared of any wrongdoing by an independent tribunal despite testing positive twice for the banned substance, clostebol, in March last year. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), however, appealed against the decision to clear him and...
The World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended Africa’s only accredited doping laboratory that is located in South Africa for six months. The anti-doping regulatory body found the laboratory in Bloemfontein guilty of non-conformities with international standard and non-conformities with technical documents and the continued Analytical Testing Restriction (ATR), among other issues. Back in September 2023, WADA restricted the South African laboratory from any analytical testing which is...
Natalya Antyukh is the latest Russian athlete to be stripped of her Olympic medal. The gold medallist for the 400m hurdles event at the London 2012 Olympic Games has had her medal stripped on the basis of historical data from a Moscow testing laboratory. The 41-year-old is currently serving a four-year ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) listed her as part of a group of...
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