Ironman winner confirms she used drug
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Nina Kraft, winner of last month&#39;s Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawai&#39;i, acknowledged yesterday that she had used the banned endurance-boosting drug EPO.
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You probably haven't heard about one of the toughest endurance sports around: the deca-ironman. That's 38 km swimming, immediately followed by an 1800 km bicycle ride and a 420 km run. Currently, the world record stands at about 187 hours, held by a German housewife. Nobody else has ever finished the course below 192 hours.
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Robbie Williams has made perhaps the most effective anti-drug statement ever: taking narcotics can make you fat. According to the BBC, the 30-year-old British pop singer made the comment during a recent interview with a radio station.
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NEW YORK -- Two of Lance Armstrong's former teammates said they used a performance-enhancing drug when they were getting ready for the 1999 Tour de France, according to a newspaper report.
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Germany's Ironman Triathlon world champion Nina Kraft has reportedly tested positive for the banned blood-boosting drug EPO (erythropoietin). Kraft was the first ever German woman to win the famed triathlon, ...
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The International Olympic Committee announced today that Ukraine rower Olena Olefirenko, whose team place third in the women&#39;s quadruple sculls event, has tested positive for the drug Ethamivan.
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NEW YORK  - Just over 1 percent of eleven-year-olds admit to using drugs to boost their athletic performance, a new study from France shows. Furthermore, four years later, 3 percent said they had used doping agents at least once during the previous month.
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Jacqui Smith admits having used drug at university, but says she was wrong to do so.
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Bjarne Riis, the 1996 Tour de France champion, topped off a week of doping confessions when he said Friday that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 1993 to 1998.
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Four horses competing at the Athens Olympics tested positive for banned substances, the International Equestrian Federation announced Friday. Showjumper Cian O'Connor, winner of Ireland's only gold medal in Athens, confirmed that his horse, Waterford Crystal, tested positive.
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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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GENEVA - Tyler Hamilton will keep his Olympic cycling gold medal because a backup drug test was inconclusive, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.    Hamilton tested positive for signs of blood doping in the initial sample Aug...
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Austria's Kate Allen wins the women's triathlon title with a stunning final leg on the run.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - The International Olympic Committee ended the once stellar Olympic career of U.S. sprinter Marion Jones on Wednesday, taking back her five Sydney 2000 Games medals after she admitted to taking drugs.
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Cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson becomes the first terminally-ill person to complete the Ironman triathlon in Florida.
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When Germany's Nina Kraft, 35, swept to her overwhelming 17-minute victory over Switzerland's Natascha Badmann at the 2004 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii October 16, photographers noticed a ...
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MARION JONES will be able to keep the three gold and two bronze medals she won at the Sydney 2000 Olympics even if it is proved she was taking banned drugs at the time.