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Russian hackers target Williams sisters in Olympic drug use leak
Russian hackers broke into a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted confidential medical data of prominent American athletes online. WADA said Tuesday the attack — which targeted some female members of...
Russia's sole track and field athlete suspended from Olympics
Russia's sole track and field competitor at the Rio Olympics, Darya Klishina, has been suspended from the Games, a source told Reuters on Saturday. No details of the suspension were...
Coach banned for doping goes on defensive Facebook rant
Trevor Graham, the track coach who was banned from the sport for life for his role in the BALCO doping scandal, used the lead-up to the Olympics to offer scathing...
Russia avoids total ban at Rio Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month's Rio Olympics over the nation's doping record but will leave decisions on individual athletes'...
Russia has earned an Olympic ban
With the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro just weeks away, Olympic officials are considering a bold move: banning all Russian athletes from competing. Good. On Tuesday, the International...
Russia's spy-backed drug cheats can't be trusted at Olympics: watchdog
The World Anti-Doping Agency's executive board wants the IOC to ban all Russian teams from the Rio Olympics. WADA issued a seven-point list of requests after it published a report...
Rio has no way to test for doping at Olympics
MONTREAL — Just weeks before the Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro, the city's accredited anti-doping laboratory has been stopped from conducting tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency said Friday...
Maria Sharapova tries to say she was picked on for being rich
The boss of the doping agency that took down Maria Sharapova is gloating after the Russian tennis star was suspended two years for testing positive for meldonium. Craig Reedie, the...
Russia's track team banned from Olympics
Russia was barred Friday from sending its track-and-field athletes to the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil — an unprecedented punishment for the nation’s widespread doping problem. The International Association of...
The corruption of global athletics even includes the 'cops'
It turns out the corruption of international athletics extends even to the “global cops”: For years, the World Anti-Doping Agency has been selling out whistleblowers to the folks they’re trying...
Maria Sharapova fighting 'harsh' two-year doping ban
Maria Sharapova was suspended two years by the International Tennis Federation on Wednesday for doping, a ban she called "unfairly harsh" and which she plans to appeal. The 28-year-old Sharapova...
Rafael Nadal goes scorched earth on doping allegations
Maria Sharapova was the one busted for doping, but Rafael Nadal’s been copping the heat — now he wants justice. In the wake of the Russian’s admission that she tested...
Sharapova was 'reckless beyond description'
A leading anti-doping authority claims Maria Sharapova was “reckless beyond description” amid revelations the Russian was warned five times in December that Meldonium would be joining the list of banned...
Russian official found dead months after doping disgrace
MOSCOW — The former executive director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency has died, two months after resigning amid a doping scandal that triggered the suspension of the country's track and...
Vladimir Putin's doping scandal should surprise no one
Here’s the first takeaway from the World Anti-Doping Agency finding of systematic, state-sponsored cheating by Russian track-and-field jocks: Moscow’s lucky the probe didn’t look at any other sports. Last December,...
EPIX doc turns critical eye on anti-doping policies in sports
In 2009, sprinter Phil DeRosier was a rising track and field star when his career was put on hold due to a six-month doping sanction. Now, he’s speaking out in...
Organized crime controls 25% of world sport: WADA director
The man tasked with eliminating drug cheats says criminal gangs now control a quarter of all world professional sport. David Howman, director-general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, called for everyone...