Sports risk Olympic ban for not adopting anti-doping code
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound warned countries and sports which do not comply with the anti-doping code could be banned from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Two Indian weightlifters were handed life bans by the country&#39;s Olympic committee after the pair were thrown out of the Athens Olympics for doping.
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FIFA has banned international games from being played at high altitudes. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the decision to ban games more than 8,200 feet above sea level was made Sunday after a review by the medical team for world soccer's governing body.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee banned Justin Gatlin's track coach from its training facilities Thursday, making him the first target in a newly amplified effort to quash doping in sports.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for four years for a 2006 positive test for testosterone, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Tuesday.
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World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound warned Friday that "more than a handful" of Olympic sports have failed to comply with anti-doping rules, endangering their place in future games.
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The Olympic 100-meter champion had a potential eight-year doping ban reduced, but he will not be able to defend his gold medal in Beijing this summer.
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United States sprinter Jerome Young was banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency yesterday following his second positive test for an illegal steroid in a case that could affect a US relay team&#39;s gold medal from Sydney.
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Olympic chiefs ordered Hungarian hammer gold medallist Adrian Annus Friday to submit another doping sample or risk losing his medal, while another of his compatriots was stripped of a medal for failing a test.
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Olympic time trial champion Tyler  Hamilton has been cleared of any doping offence at the Athens  Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said  Thursday.
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Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA and NHL will join forces with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to combat the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport.
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ATHENS, Aug. 18.  The International Olympic Committee today announced it would take no action against Greek sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou for missing drugs tests. It referred the cases to the IAAF. IOC spokeswoman Ms Giselle Davies ...
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Golf finally joined other major sports Thursday when its leading organizations announced an anti-doping policy that will begin in 2008.
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Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for four years for a 2006 positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone, The Washington Post reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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Competition leader Danilo Di Luca was excluded from the ProTour series by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday, after the Giro d'Italia winner received a three-month doping ban earlier this week.
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Track and field athletes with a first doping offense should be banned for life from the Olympics and all other top-level meets, says former two-time Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Coe.
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Olympic chiefs ordered Hungarian hammer  gold medallist Adrian Annus Friday to submit another doping  sample or risk losing his medal, while another of his  compatriots was stripped of a medal for failing a test.