Doping

Hammer blow for Kenya as world marathon champ Peres Jepchirchir suspended for doping

A sample collected before Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir won the Sydney Marathon in August tested positive for banned blood booster EPO.

Kenya hosting 2029 World Athletics Championships will help its fight against doping: Coe

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe during his visit after Nairobi won the bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct 14.

Sebastian Coe says Kenya doping fight improving ahead of 2029 World Athletics Championships

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe at a press conference in Nairobi on Oct 14.

Meet the Singaporeans who help to maintain the integrity of the Asian Games

Michael Sua (left) and Alvin Tay are among eight officers from Anti-Doping Singapore who are on duty at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games.

Thailand says teams careful of doping rules after badminton player fails drug test

Thailand’s Pitchamon Opatniputh became the first confirmed doping case at the Aichi-Nagoya Games.

Thai teenage badminton player first doping case at Asian Games: Testers

Thailand’s Pitchamon Opatniputh in the Malaysia Masters in May 2026. She was due to face China in the Asian Games women’s team quarter-finals on Sept 22.

ISU revokes Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s neutral status

Russia’s Kamila Valieva was 15 when she became the centre of a global controversy at the 2022 Olympics after a sample collected two months earlier tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva loses neutral athlete status, says source

Russia’s Kamila Valieva in action at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Russian athletes have been barred from competing under their national flag since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios given one-month ban for ‘social’ cocaine use

Nick Kyrgios had been provisionally suspended since Aug 4.

2023 Wimbledon champ Marketa Vondrousova lodges appeal against her doping ban with CAS

The Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova celebrating her victory at Wimbledon in 2023.

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