Brief steroids use can enhance athletes’ performance for decades

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 23:38

A new study suggests that athletes who use steroids even for a very brief period of time could have long-lasting effects later in their performance.

Top swimmer Arjun Muralidharan handed two-year ban for doping

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 20:13

Multiple-time national champion swimmer Arjun Muralidharan has been handed a two-year ban by National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel after testing positive for stimulant Methylhexaneamine during the All India Police Aquatics Championships in March.

WADA officials arrive in Jamaica for anti-doping audit

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 09:37

Three high-ranking officials of the World Anti-Doping Agency have arrived in Jamaica to conduct their audit of the country`s anti-doping programmes after weeks of criticism following positive tests from several high-profile athletes.

WADA due in Jamaica next week for doping audit

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 13:11

A World Anti-Doping Agency team is slated to visit Jamaica on Monday amid reports the country`s athletes could face an Olympic ban over the handling of recent drug scandals.

Morocco`s Abourazzouk banned for doping

Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 09:36

Morocco international striker Hamza Abourazzouk was banned for six months by FIFA for doping.

Lance Armstrong finally returns Olympic bronze medal to IOC

Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 10:35

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong`s Olympic medal is back with the International Olympic Committee.

Jamaica`s Veronica Campbell-Brown escapes ban for positive dope test

Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 09:16

Jamaica`s twice 200 metres Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has escaped with a public warning by the Jamaica Athletics Administration Association for her use of a banned substance.

Powell, Simpson have doping hearing set for January

Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 09:51

Former world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell and Olympic 4x100 relay silver medallist Sherone Simpson will appear before a disciplinary panel of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission in January.

Swimmer Pansare`s dope ban period reduced to one year

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 16:55

The National Anti-Doping Appeal Panel has reduced the ban period of swimmer Jyotsna Pansare from two years to one.

Marin Cilic denies `faking injury to disguise failed drug test`

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 09:18

Marin Cilic has denied allegations by the ITF that he had pulled out of this year`s Wimbledon Championships by faking a knee injury to disguise a failed drug test.

I was nailed on a cross for 25 years: Ben Johnson

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 13:04

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson returned to Seoul`s Olympic Stadium on Tuesday -- 25 years to the day after the steroid-assisted 100m final victory that destroyed his career and reputation.

Marin Cilic cited injury at Wimbledon to hide failed dope test

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 08:48

Marin Cilic cited a knee injury at Wimbledon this year to hide the fact he had failed a dope test, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has revealed.