Pogba risks an inglorious end to his dazzling career: in Udine he tested positive for anti-doping and risks a very heavy disqualification - The Acerbi case, however, forces maximum caution pending counter-analysis
INTERVIEW WITH LAURA MERCOLINI of the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna - "We have developed a simpler and more reliable anti-doping method" already tested at the last Winter Olympics
Russia barred from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and any world championships. 'Clean' athletes will be able to participate under a neutral flag. The Court of Arbitration for Sport will have the last word.
The counter-analysis was also positive - Team Sky's reply: "It's a common anti-asthmatic drug for which you don't even need the Tue and which Froome has been taking for some time".
The blue tennis player, in a bad moment of her career, was found positive for anastrozole - The international federation could, however, believe in the involuntary ingestion and give her only a two-month disqualification.
The Condor and the Shark are the two favorites of edition n. 100 of the pink race that starts today from Alghero. A tough route, 21 stages for 3609 km with Etna, the Block Haus, the Mortirolo, the Stelvio and the…
According to Wada's report, "Russia's was a cover-up system that evolved from unchecked chaos to a full-blown institutionalized conspiracy."
The South Tyrolean walker, who even risks radiation after being found positive (for the second time) in anti-doping tests, made a quick appeal to the TAS and is already in Rio, confident that he can run at least the 50 km.
The Olympic Games in Brazil will open on Friday 5 August in a nightmare scenario in a country on the brink of the abyss due to the political and economic crisis and the spread of corruption - Infrastructures and plants still unfinished - The shadow…
The IOC has carried out new analyzes on 1.243 test tubes of athletes participating in the last two editions of the Summer Games: the new positives would be 45 and concern 4 nations in 8 different sports - President Bach: "New checks also at…
The CAS decision is final: 68 Russians, the entire athletics team, including multiple champion Yelena Isinbayeva, will not participate in the Games which begin on August 5 - Now the IOC will have to decide on the fate of the entire Russian delegation, which…
According to the World Anti-Doping Agency, the system was favored by the state and involved all sports - The exclusion of the Russian delegation from the next Olympics was requested - Putin: "The managers will be suspended" - But a vitriolic note also arrives from Moscow:…
This was supported by the lawyer Guido Valori, a member of the TAS, after the South Tyrolean walker pleaded innocent, claiming that he had been sabotaged: "There is little chance that the TAS will decide to block the suspension of the IAAF and do so…
The South Tyrolean athlete had tested positive in an anti-doping test carried out at the beginning of the year and announced last week - The counter-analysis of the sample would have confirmed the previous results, proving the presence of anabolic steroids.
This is supported by the Gazzetta dello Sport, which reports that the 31-year-old South Tyrolean walker would have been checked by surprise by the IAAF at the beginning of January: the first test would have been negative, but the counter-analysis revealed traces of anabolic steroids and a…
Wada, the World Anti-Doping Agency, has called on the IAAF - International Athletics Federation - to suspend all Russian athletes from all athletics competitions and accused the Russian government of "direct intimidation" against the laboratory…
Pantani's destiny is to have no peace even when dead: his name is the first on the list of riders who, according to Le Monde, made use of Epo during the 1998 Tour, which the Pirate won...
CYCLING, Giro d'Italia - The organizers cancel the Val Martello stage due to bad weather on the day in which the case of Danilo Di Luca's Epo positivity explodes - Misadventures which, however, must not demean Nibali's success,…
The Lithuanian Navardauskas wins by gap - Ranking unchanged with Nibali in the pink jersey - The positivity of the Frenchman Georges awakens the ugly ghosts of doping.
THE NEW E-BOOK BY FIRSTonline and goWare on cycling and doping by Bernacchi: the tsunami that hit cycling with the investigation into Lance Armstrong is even bigger than the one that hit Italian politics. It was known…
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CHOCICLING CYCLING - "La Gazzetta dello Sport" reveals that the former world champion is also suspected of doping: it emerges from the documents of the Spanish trial of the doctor-sorcerer Fuentes - The mystery of the sudden abandonment of racing is being reconsidered - The Federciclismo…
For the former Texan cyclist, who confessed to doping in front of Oprah Winfrey's cameras (even if he didn't seem sincerely sorry), the time has come for the bill: the scam will cost him at least 10 million euros, which however could become almost…
An extremely intense three-hour interview, during which the now ousted winner of 7 Tours allegedly also fell into tears confessing to the use of doping, as already proven by Usada: the episode will be aired in two parts between Thursday It's Friday…
CYCLING - After the 7 Tours de France, Armstrong also says goodbye to the other titles: he is left with only the red cloak of shame, while the millionaire sponsors abandon him - Now we have to ask ourselves whether it is right, in addition to the radiation,…
Now it's official: the Texan cyclist, involved in the doping scandal that led him to be expelled by Usada (American Anti-Doping Agency), will go down in history for not having won any title between '98 and 2005.
CYCLING - Today the finish of the penultimate stage of the Vuelta. Contador returns to great form after disqualification for doping. Thanks also to Valverde and Rodriguez, the race is all Spanish and has reduced the big favorite, Christopher Froome
CYCLING AND DOPING - Armstrong, Superman or buffoon? He won cancer and seven consecutive Tours but in the face of doping accusations the Texan throws in the towel: "Enough. Enough is enough"-But the doubts remain: the…
"I went to Antalya, buying Epo cash without a prescription. Then I had injections from July 13 to 29, without telling anyone. I could have skipped the check, but I couldn't take it anymore: and I still wouldn't have…
A case of doping shakes the blue Olympic expedition, just today winner of three medals: the gold of Beijing 2008 in the 50 km walk should have been reconfirmed in the race scheduled for Saturday morning, and instead was excluded by Coni…
The Spaniard of Saxo Bank was finally sanctioned, after almost two years of silence, for the (minimal) positivity found in July 2010: the TAS disqualified him until 6 August 2012 (he will also miss the London Olympics) and…
The former French tennis player has it in particular with the Iberian system: "Why welcome Contador with open arms to the Tour de France when he was found to be positive? Sure, it was the steak..". There is no explicit reference to Nadal, but he replies indignantly:…
