doping

Doctor and senior consultant Michael Friedberg explains the origins, properties and medical uses of EPO in the treatment of kidney patients.[more]

The decisions in "Hamburger" and "Bray" of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) bring to the fore the question with whose laws do the athlete comply?[more]

The Italian doping expert Sandro Donati reveals the growing consumption of sports drugs and the related illegal sector, using one Italian court case as an example of how internationalized the drug trade is[more]

It has been nearly 30 years since a previously unheralded Finnish policeman named Lasse Viren burst onto the scene in Munich at the 1972 Olympics, winning two gold medals and setting a new world record for 10,000 meters.[more]

According to some of the world's leading sports researchers, the war against sports drugs cannot be won.[more]

The head of research at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Sandro Donati (photo), recounts his personal story about twenty years of fighting against doping in Italian and international sport. An unbelievable story which...[more]

Disclosures of doping during the 1998 Tour de France were the cause of a hysterical debate in this country.[more]

How can we describe a press corps that up until 1998 passively hitched a ride on the professional cycling caravan, allowing the riders to lift share values up with them into the mountains?[more]

Modern sport faces a complex set of challenges. Today, I will focus on two major problems, which are especially relevant to the main topics of this conference.[more]

The international fight against doping, as headed by the IOC and the big federations, is at best hypocritical and at worst disastrous. Education and personal responsability must be a new key word in a national doping policy.[more]