All posts tagged "Doping"

In the battle against drug use at the Paris Olympics, the International Testing Agency (ITA) plans to deploy a more streamlined, high-tech approach to identify and target potential cheats.

In an interview with AFP, Benjamin Cohen, Director General of the ITA, said potential tools as its disposal included biological and performance passports as well as a mountain of other data.

Upgraded software, possibly using artificial intelligence, could also help; an investigative unit aided by whistleblowers was making inroads; and increased cooperation with sports bodies and police was bearing fruit....

Argentina World Cup winner Alejandro "Papu" Gómez has blamed his positive doping test on accidentally ingesting a spoonful of his son's cough syrup. The 35-year-old was found to have taken the banned substance terbutaline in samples from October 2022 and was banned for two years by the Spanish Anti-Doping Commission. "I have never resorted to a prohibited practice and never will," Gómez said in a statement on Instagram. He categorically rejects any form of doping. Gómez played for Sevilla last season, but had since signed for AC Monza in Italy. The player has called in a lawyer. He won the Wor......

New York (AFP) - A Texas therapist faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to supplying performance-enhancing drugs to Olympic athletes including banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare, US authorities said. Eric Lira, a "naturopathic" therapist based in the city of El Paso, is the first individual to be convicted under a new US law introduced in the wake of Russia's state-backed Olympic doping scandals, the Department of Justice said in a statement. The 2020 law, named after Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, enables US authorities to prosecute individuals inv......