anti-doping

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]

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]

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]

With less than two weeks to go, it is time to register for a unique occasion to network directly with sports political heavyweights, leading experts and top media professionals in international sport.[more]

In this second contribution to Play the Game’s exclusive comment series on corruption in sport leading up to the Play the Game 2011 conference, Thomas Bach, Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), highlights...[more]

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]

Speaking at an international doping conference in London, WADA Director General, David Howman, repeated his warnings against criminals infecting the world of sport and called for new unorthodox ideas in the fight against doping.[more]

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]

Greg LeMond is again speaking out against doping and Lance Armstrong, much like he did at the Play the Game Conference in 2009.[more]

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key...[more]