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BOA loses battle to keep lifetime bans for doping cheats

01 May 2012

The British Olympic Association (BOA) lost its battle with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and must now ratify its policy of giving lifetime Olympic bans for doping. For a number...[more]




New in Knowledge Bank: Threats to sporting integrity: doping, match-fixing and corruption

23 April 2012

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.[more]




New study claims doping is bigger threat to sport than match-fixing

16 November 2011

A new report from the British Coventry University’s International Centre for the Business of Sport (CIBS) finds that corruption in sport is dominated by doping, equating to nearly 96 per cent of all cases, and that betting and...[more]




FIFA ‘alarmed’ at record positive clenbuterol tests in Mexico

19 October 2011

FIFA has revealed that a record number of athletes tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol at the Under-17 football World Cup in Mexico this year.[more]




Doping: Dispatches from the frontline

05 October 2011

Whilst WADA is well-established, there are still a lot of challenges in anti-doping work. The cheats are getting better all the time, and international federations lack resources for quality testing. Meanwhile athletes believe...[more]




Anti-doping: Widening the net against a common enemy

23 September 2011

Sport is huge business and the influence of the underworld is getting greater by the year. The threat is so acute that it needs to be addressed head on, argues David Howman, Director General of WADA, in the fifth contribution to...[more]




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22 September 2011

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WADA calls for good ideas in the fight against doping

26 August 2011

There is a lack of new ideas on how anti-doping efforts can be improved, WADA’s Director-General warned at a doping conference in Aarhus, Denmark where it was also discussed whether the doping fight is moving into a dead end.[more]




Doping and the role of the sports physician

16 November 2010

There has hardly been a major drugs scandal in which sports physicians have not been central actors. If we wish to understand patterns of drug use in sport then we need to examine the central role of sports physicians in the use...[more]




Client control and the limits of professional autonomy: the case of sports medicine and the use of performance-enhancing drugs

16 November 2010

Over a good many years I have consistently argued that if we wish to understand patterns of drug use in sport then we need to examine the central role of sports physicians in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.[more]




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