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The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or have been suspended by a sports governing body for failure to submit to mandatory drug testing.
Tribunal Arbitral du Sport. [53] Magnus Hedman, footballer, was charged and convicted by Swedish court in June 2009 when he tested positive for stanozolol. At the time he was a "ambassador" for Swedish anti-steroid organization Ren Idrott ("Clean Sports") and sports commentator for Swedish TV4. He lost both assignments as a consequence.
The use of performance-enhancing drugs (doping in sport) is prohibited within the sport of athletics.Athletes who are found to have used such banned substances, whether through a positive drugs test, the biological passport system, an investigation or public admission, may receive a competition ban for a length of time which reflects the severity of the infraction.
China's most famous swimmer, Sun Yang, was not among the 23; he was, and still is, serving a yearslong ban in a separate doping case. (In a third unrelated case, in 2014, Sun was also banned for ...
Russian athletes are competing as ROC, short for Russian Olympic Committee, at the Beijing Olympics because the country was banned for operating a state-sponsored doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which oversees clean sport at major international events like World Championships and the Olympics, agreed with the Chinese group and the athletes were allowed ...
The race leader, Michael Rasmussen, was removed from the Tour by his team with four stages left amid questions surrounding his possible involvement in doping. Lance Armstrong doping case (2012) – after having been accused of doping for much of the latter part of his career, Lance Armstrong became the subject of an investigation by the United ...
Sport Year of violation Anti-doping rule violation / Banned substance(s) Sanction Reference(s) Fritz Aanes Norway: Greco-Roman wrestling Norandrosterone, Noretiocholanolone [1] Tom Aage Aarnes Norway: Ski jumping Amphetamine [2] Mariya Abakumova Russia: Athletics 2008 Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (Turinabol) [3] Sara Abbazova Azerbaijan ...