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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.
The most famous case of trimetazidine in sports doping involved Chinese swimmer Sun Yang. The three-time Olympic champion served a three-month ban in 2014 in a ruling that was published by China ...
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 ...
Cocaine, confessed after quitting the sport. [92] Richard Smith Australia Cycling Blood Doping [93] Ebi Smolarek Poland Football (soccer) Cannabis [94] Matt Socholotiuk Canada Canadian football Human growth hormone [95] Edgars Soika Latvia: Curling Spironolactone [96] (in Latvian) Sergei Sokolov Azerbaijan: Football (soccer) Betamethasone [97]
Four-time NCAA champion sprinter Divine Oduduru received a six-year ban for his role in a case first pursued by U.S. authorities under a law designed to combat widespread doping schemes across the ...
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 ...