Tramadol, a synthetic opioid painkilling drug is not banned in sport under World Anti Doping Agency regulations. It is however, rather controversial. Over the past five or so years there have been several calls for it to be banned. This week it has been reported to have been used in…
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Doping and AntiDoping, Pure Doublethink – Icarus Film Review
Film Review – Icarus by Brian Fogle I was fortunate to be given a pass to go to DocFest to see the film Icarus, by Brian Fogle. On Tuesday 13/6/17 I will be talking about this in Sheffield (DocFest Link) please come along. Brian Fogle finished the Haute…
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Jamaicans and footballers: how to interpret a single urine sample
This blog post has been written after seeing many comments on a footballers drug test results and also the news that some Jamaicans had low levels of clenbuterol detected in their samples from Beijing. So what does it all mean… Earlier this week there was a quote from Siado…
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Doping Round Up: SKY, TUEs and More Grey Areas
This year has had it’s fair share of doping stories and they keep on coming. The year started with a bang – Maria Sharapova failed a drugs test at the Australian Open tennis tournament for the little known (at the time!) drug meldonium (Mildronate). I wrote a few bits…
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WADA report on Rio dope testing flaws
At every Olympic games there is a drug testing programme, coordinated by the local organising committee on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). For the past few games there has also been a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) “Independent Observer Team” to monitor these tests. Their report was released…
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Transparency and missed doping control tests
Recently there have been increasing calls for transparency in sports drug testing,one issue being around missed tests. The Armitstead affair brought this issue to the fore last month. Should athletes have a right to privacy or should all such test statistics be freely searchable on the internet? British cyclist and current…
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Athletes competing in Rio who have previously served drugs bans
I have now added a link to 101 athletes previously banned at the foot of the page. Following the decision of the IOC to not allow any Russians to complete in the Rio Olympics who had previously served a drugs ban, I thought I’d have a look for any…
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Russia, doping and Rio 2016
Doping issues have been front and centre during the build up to the 2016 Olympic Games, even more so than previous years. Along with Zika, water quality and questions around the readiness of the host cities facilities, drugs have threatened to scupper Rio 2016 before it has begun. Usually the roster…
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Olympic athletes targeted for retesting before Rio
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced many positive samples following analysis of urine samples taken during the Beijing Olympics, all from athletes likely to compete at Rio, with more likely to come from samples collected at London… The IOC press release states 454 samples from athletes competing at…