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Doping in sport

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
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    The Enhanced Games spotlight a growing interest in drugs not only to improve performance, but also to treat depression

    Australia’s James Magnussen winning the Swimming Men’s Freestyle 100 metres event at FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in August 2013
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    ‘Steroid Olympics’ backed by Trump Jr to debut in Las Vegas

    Investors in Enhanced Games include 1789 Capital and Peter Thiel

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  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
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    The man who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker has a new, even bolder project

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  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
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    Paris holds first ceremonies for Olympians beaten by doping cheats

    Medal reallocation events mark Games’ latest attempt to navigate path through drug scandals

    Members of the US figure skating team pose with their medals, following the reallocation of medals from the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Anti-doping body faces calls for review over Chinese swimmers

    UK agency combating drugs in sport adds to pressure ahead of Paris Olympics over positive 2020 tests

    Swimmers dive into the pool at the 2020 Summer Olympics
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    International Olympic Committee
    IOC suspends Russian Olympic Committee

    Decision follows Moscow’s attempt to absorb Ukrainian sporting bodies from occupied regions

    Kamila Valieva from Russia skates in Beijing, China
  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Sport
    World Athletics upholds ban on Russian athletes ahead of Paris Olympics 

    Belarusian competitors also barred as part of sanctions over Ukraine war

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    News in-depthBeijing Winter Olympics
    Valieva affair overshadows sport as Beijing Winter Olympics concludes

    Games will be best remembered for the furore over the teenage Russian figure skater

    A dejected Kamila Valieva at the end of her free skate routine
  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Beijing Winter Olympics
    Olympics chief slams coach’s ‘chilling’ treatment of Russia’s Kamila Valieva

    Thomas Bach issues unusually frank criticism after teenager who failed drug test was berated

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    News in-depthBeijing Winter Olympics
    Russian figure skater furore sparks fresh anger over Olympic doping

    Athletes’ groups condemn decision clearing 15-year-old Kamila Valieva to compete despite positive drug test

    Kamila Valieva
  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    Beijing Winter Olympics
    Kamila Valieva to skate at Winter Olympics despite failed drugs test

    Teenage athlete wins appeal to continue competing as US team accuses Russia of showing ‘disregard for clean sport’

    Kamila Valieva
  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Beijing Winter Olympics
    Russia’s teenage Olympic figure skating prodigy fails drugs test

    Kamila Valieva’s positive result implicates Moscow in another high-profile sports cheating scandal

    Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee during the women’s team free skate programme at the Winter Olympics
  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    Beijing Winter Olympics
    Winter Olympics delays team figure-skating medals over ‘legal case’

    Kamila Valieva-led Russian squad was due to be awarded gold as speculation mounts over drugs test

    Kamila Valieva trains in Beijing on Thursday
  • Monday, 2 August, 2021
    News in-depthTokyo Olympics
    Russia wins at Tokyo 2020 despite ban over doping programme

    Athletes have thrived even after country was penalised for state-sponsored cheating

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    White House to push for rethink on cannabis use in sport

    US seeks talks with World Anti-Doping Agency after suspension of star sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson

    Sha’Carri Richardson at a track in Eugene, Oregon
  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Russia global sports ban upheld but cut to two years

    Country’s flag and anthem banned from next two Olympics as scandal of state-sponsored doping reaches endgame

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Former world athletics chief Lamine Diack jailed for corruption

    Ex-head of IAAF found guilty of accepting bribes from athletes to cover up results of drug tests

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    Lunch with the FT
    Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov: ‘Sport won’t be clean. Never’

    Russia’s one-time doping kingpin on helping to uncover one of the greatest scandals in the history of sport — and a life in exile

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Russia appeals against four-year Olympic sporting ban

    Exclusion imposed after drugs body uncovers huge state-sponsored doping programme

    PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 25: Members of Olympic Athletes from Russia walk in the Parade of Athletes during the Closing Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 9 December, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Russia’s sports ban shows its contempt for the rules

    Moscow chose deception and denial instead of contrition over doping

    RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 05: Sergei Tetiukhin of Russia carries the flag during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maracana Stadium on August 5, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 9 December, 2019
    Russia banned from Olympics and football World Cup 

    Anti-doping agency excludes country from big sporting events for four years

    TOPSHOT - Russia's flagbearer Sergei Tetyukhin leads his delegation during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 2016. / AFP / PEDRO UGARTE (Photo credit should read PEDRO UGARTE/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Nike Inc
    Nike shuts athletics training programme after doping scandal

    Chief under pressure after emails show he was briefed on tests by banned coach

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    US coach Salazar banned for four years for doping violations

    Decision comes after six-year investigation into Mo Farah’s former trainer

    File photo dated 04-08-2012 of Great Britain's Mo Farah (right) celebrates winning the Men's 10,000m final with Silver Medalist USA's Galen Rupp (left) and coach Alberto Salazar. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday October 1, 2019. Sir Mo Farah has said in a statement that he has “no tolerance for anyone who breaks the rules or crosses a line” after former coach Alberto Salazar’s four-year USADA ban for multiple doping violations. See PA story ATHLETICS Salazar. Photo credit should read Martin Rickett/PA Wire.
  • Tuesday, 22 January, 2019
    Russia
    Anti-doping agency will not renew Russia’s suspension
  • Wednesday, 9 January, 2019
    Russia reaches ‘understanding’ with anti-doping body on data transfer
    FILE - In this May 24, 2016 file photo employees work in Russia's national drug-testing laboratory in Moscow. Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the whistleblower who exposed Russia’s doping corruption at the Sochi Olympics added to a chorus of protest over the possible reinstatement of the country’s anti-doping agency. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Grigory Rodchenkov portrayed the World Anti-Doping Agency’s shifting of its requirements to end RUSADA’s suspension as a result of Russia’s unwillingness to accept findings from investigator Richard McLaren, who detailed a government-sponsored doping program designed to win medals. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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