Paralympic Drug Scandal Prompts Warning
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Paralympics boss Phil Craven today warned of a zero-tolerance policy towards drugs cheats after he was confronted with the first doping scandal of the Athens Games before the event has even started.
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Bayer AG may have known its withdrawn cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol caused a high rate of a serious muscle condition more than a year before it added a warning to its label, according to a prominent medical journal.
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It started with a missed drugs test and ended with a stripped gold medal. In between it was dominated by steroids, stimulants and diuretics.
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In a bid to avoid a repeat of the Sydney games, in which Spain&#39;s basketball team was packed with frauds, Paralympics organizers have banned all athletes with learning disabilities from the Athens games this month.
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The doping scandal surrounding American track star Marion Jones could mark a turning point in efforts to rid sports of drugs, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Monday.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried that news reports about an aids drug may prompt some governments to ban the medication.
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The International Olympic Committee has announced it intends to investigate claims that Marion Jones used banned substances at the Sydney Olympics.
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A medical product used to treat both  male hair loss and prostate problems has been added to the list  of banned drugs for athletes.
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Belarussian powerlifter Vladimir Buben  has been banned for life after a positive drugs test at the  Athens Paralympics, the International Paralympic Committee  (IPC) said on Monday.
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Brazilian swimmer Rebeca Gusmao and three other athletes must return their Pan American Games medals because of doping.
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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced here Friday afternoon that the Paralympic Games gold medal retrieved from an anti-doping violatorjudoka from Cuba would not be re-distributed.
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Doctors get a second warning about misusing the pain drug.
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Reports from the Olympics Saturday, say Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens games has twice tested positive for illegal substances, and could lose the bronze medal he won for weightlifting.
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American sprinter Michelle Collins has been hit with an eight-year suspension for using a cocktail of banned drugs EPO, testosterone and the designer steroid THG.
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Athens - Two weightlifters from Azerbaidjan have been banned from competitions for life after testing positive for drugs, in the first two doping cases of the Athens Paralympics, officials said here on Wednesday.
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The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday it would launch an inquiry into potential drugs rules violations at past Games following doping confessions by Telekom team riders.
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Although Paralympic sports have been integrated with the Olympic movement in countries such as Canada, Germany and Great Britain for some time, Paralympic athletes&#39; roles in the USA still are growing.