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Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto, who was accused of blood doping, is now able to compete at the Olympic Games in Paris after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling on Tuesday. The disciplinary chamber of World Athletics acquitted the 28-year-old runner last October over alleged abnormalities in her biologicalpassport. She said that a coronavirus infection and ulcers were to blame. But World Athletics as a body appealed its own tribunal's decision at CAS and asked for a four-year ban for the Kenyan-born athlete, who competes for Kazakhstan. CAS said the original decision ...
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German cyclist Michael Hessmann is set to return next month after agreeing to a retroactive four-month ban in connection with a positive doping test last year. Hessmann's lawyer, Rainer Cherkah, said that the 23-year-old rider agreed to the sanction proposed by Germany's Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). The start of the ban was moved to March and he can compete again from July 22. The Jumbo-Lease a bike team member of Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard tested positive for a forbidden diuretic 12 months ago and was suspended by the team. Cherkah said at the time that Hessmann had not doped inte...
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Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich has confirmed again that he doped during his career, saying it was widespread and accepted in the sport. Ullrich's career ended in 2006 after being kicked out by Team T-Mobile over the doping affair centring on Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. He never confessed to doping practices until last November, saying instead for many years that "I never betrayed anyone." On Saturday night, he reiterated on ZDF television that "in the end I cheated, yes. It wasn't right what we did." Doping was wide-spread Ullrich, 50, said he was naive early on and had a dif...
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American ski racer Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three whereabouts failures in a 12-month period, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has said. USADA said late Monday that Johnson, 28, had committed the violations on October 29, 2022, June 13, 2023, and October 10, 2023. Athletes must report their whereabouts to be available for random doping tests, and can be banned for up to two years for violations. "In this case, USADA determined that a 14-month period of ineligibility was appropriate because Johnson’s degree of fault was relatively low given the circumstances o...
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Runner Sofia Benfares has been banned for four years for a doping offence by the German Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), one month after her sister, Sara Benfares, was banned for five years. The NADA said on Monday that Sofia Benfares tested positive for the forbidden blood booster erythropoetine (EPO) and all her results between January 11 and her provisional suspension the following month are scrapped. The statement said that Benfares has the right to contest the ruling at a German Court of Arbitration for Sport within 20 days. Benfares, 19, was third over 3,000m at last year's European junior cha...
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German prosecutors have brought criminal charges against track and field athlete Sara Benfares, who has been banned for five years for doping, on suspicion of unauthorized self-doping. The public prosecutor's office in Saarbrücken confirmed the news to dpa on Friday. The German distance runner was banned by the nation's anti-doping agency NADA last month, with the body stating it went beyond the usual four-year sanction because of "aggravating circumstances." It said that five forbidden substances were detected in three doping tests between last September and January, including the steroids te...
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The deputy chairman of the German parliament's sports committee has announced a review of the financing of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the wake of allegations of a cover-up in the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive. The swimmers tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine (TMZ) at a domestic competition in Shijiazhuang in early 2021. Chinese officials said the swimmers tested positive due to contamination and reported the case to WADA and swimming governing body World Aquatics (then FINA). WADA confirmed the positive tests, but like FINA said it found ...
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The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who failed doping tests ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published a "frequently asked questions" document outlining its handling of the case on April 29, following wide-ranging outrage after news of the case broke. However, USADA said WADA was "doubling down on half-truths and self-serving rationalizations" in the document. "How much longer must we watch WADA dance around the truth, avoiding all accountability and responsibility?" USA...
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German swimmers reacted with anger and incomprehension to the news that 23 Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, where several of them competed after all were cleared. "That's of course a complete breach of trust. I find it completely incomprehensible why no action has been taken," 50 metres breaststroke German record holder Malvin Imoudu said on Tuesday in a news conference ahead of the April 25-28 national championships in Berlin. "We're always told: Watch what you eat. Always make sure there's nothing in there - because even if it's not your fault, you'll be...
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Berlin (dpa) — The World Anti-Doping Agency has found no credible evidence of misconduct in the decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ) in 2021, it said on Monday. WADA was forced to hold an emergency press conference to try to stem the tide of negative headlines after the story first emerged from German broadcaster ARD, the New York Times and Australia's Daily Telegraph. Chinese officials, swimming's governing body and WADA ruled that the 23 had only tested positive due to contamination and the swimmers were able to qualify for the Tokyo Ol...
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