Performance-enhancing drugs can be associated with various health risks and side effects, but further research is needed to ...

BBC Sport explains what it means, why it has become a hot topic, what the types of doping are and what is being done to tackle it.

Thirty plus years of studying, writing and talking about sports doping make him uniquely qualified to offer the following bleak answer. HOBERMAN: Not in our lifetimes, it will not end.

Donati is a lone voice in the stadium. Sport is losing the battle against doping. Consider what was regarded as the greatest victory over doping, the police raids on the 1998 Tour de France.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), set up in 1999 by the International Olympic Committee to combat illegal performance enhancement in sports, defines doping as use of drugs that meets two of ...

Realizing the inevitability of this new form of doping posing a risk to sports, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an international agency that monitors sports doping, added gene doping to the list ...

Houlihan adds that a big problem for anti-doping efforts is the financial challenge. "The estimated global value of the sports industry is somewhere between $350-450 billion.

While Bach represents pessimism about the anti-doping effort, Tygart said he can imagine a day when doping and the use of performance-enhancing drugs have been eradicated from sports.

Katie Ledecky says faith in some of the systems that prevent doping in sports is 'at an all-time low' In April, 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance prior to the 2020 Tokyo ...

The use of doping has spread from elite sports to include recreational sport and the growing “fitness movement”. It is now being practiced particularly by young and early middle aged people ...

THE menace of doping has tainted the ongoing 22nd National Sports Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State. At least 14 athletes have tested positive for banned substances. These athletes were selected ...