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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.
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 ...
Operación Puerto (2006) – a Spanish investigation into a doping scheme allegedly involving many top cyclists, including several potential contenders in the 2006 Tour de France. Floyd Landis doping case (2006) – Floyd Landis, initially the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, tested positive for synthetic testosterone and was stripped of his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...