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Russian skater's doping case leaves WADA uneasy and targeting new rules before next Winter Olympics

Mar. 12, 2024 12:41 PM EDT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left a “very unpleasant” taste with the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is unhappy that the teenager was the only one punished with a ban while her coaches and entourage have not been sanctioned. ...

Grand Slam champ Simona Halep wins doping case on appeal and is cleared to resume tennis

Mar. 05, 2024 13:38 PM EST

GENEVA (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep was cleared for an immediate return to tennis on Tuesday after sports' highest court accepted she was not entirely at fault for her positive doping test at the 2022 U.S. Open. On court, the former top-ranked Halep beat Serena...

Four new appeals go to sports court chasing Olympic medals in Russian skater Valieva's doping case

Feb. 26, 2024 10:54 AM EST

GENEVA (AP) — Four appeals filed at sport’s highest court in fallout from the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva are set to delay awarding medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics yet again. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday it registered three appeals...

Anti-doping law nets first prison sentence for therapist who helped sprinters get drugs

Feb. 22, 2024 14:34 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through performance-enhancing drugs received a three-month prison sentence. Federal prosecutors used the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act to charge Eric Lira,...

Jenson Brooksby, an American tennis player, has his whereabouts suspension cut. He can play in March

Feb. 15, 2024 11:59 AM EST

American tennis player Jenson Brooksby's suspension for missing three doping tests will end on March 3, 10 months earlier than the original date, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Thursday. The ITIA said it reached an agreement with Brooksby to reduce the ban from 18...

Retired Australian swimmer James Magnussen faces legal issues in doped world record attempt

Feb. 09, 2024 14:13 PM EST

Retired swimming champion James Magnussen faces potential legal and ethical issues after declaring he will deliberately dope in an unofficial attempt to break the 50-meter freestyle world record. Magnussen will be paid $1 million to make the attempt at the Enhanced Games, a sort of...

ISU defends its decision to give Russians bronze medal from Beijing Olympics after doping case

Feb. 09, 2024 13:12 PM EST

The governing body that oversees figure skating defended its decision to award the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics to the Russian squad Friday, despite the disqualification of team member Kamila Valieva for a highly publicized doping violation that caused a reshuffling of the medals. ...

Leading French Olympic fencer suspended over 'abnormal' doping test ahead of Paris Games

Feb. 09, 2024 04:44 AM EST

NOISY-LE-GRAND, France (AP) — One of France's leading fencers has been suspended following an “abnormal” doping test result, less than six months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games. Ysaora Thibus is a three-time Olympian in fencing and won the team foil silver medal at the...

Russian skater’s strawberry dessert excuse was rejected by judges in Olympic doping case

Feb. 07, 2024 13:25 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — A strawberry dessert contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication might have caused Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s positive doping test, her lawyers argued at sport’s highest court, which rejected the explanation and banned her for four years. The...

Russian figure skaters set to get Olympic bronze ahead of Canada despite Valieva's disqualification

Jan. 30, 2024 14:46 PM EST

GENEVA (AP) — Despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case, the Russian figure skating team still stands to finish on the podium and get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics behind the United States and Japan. The Americans moved into the gold medal...