Drugs in sport
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Paris 2024
Why gene doping is the next great Olympic threat
No one has ever been busted gene doping, considered the next frontier in cheating in sport. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be happening at the Paris Olympics.
- by Adrian Proszenko
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Olympic careers are usually short. Athletes deserve to know they are clean
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s recent decision-making turns on its head the concept of strict liability.
- by Darren Kane
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Paris 2024
Forget poos in the Seine. Doping is the biggest concern at the Olympics
Confidence in WADA’s ability stop drug cheats is at rock-bottom after it was cleared of mishandling of a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers.
- by Andrew Webster
Wilkie doubles down on blackmail claim by AFL player’s family
AFL says that Sport Integrity Australia had not received information about the alleged extortion attempt.
- by Danny Russell
Anti-doping watchdog clears AFL, urges players’ hair testing results to be made public
Sport Integrity Australia warned the AFL must bolster its “intelligence capability to manage emerging threats to the game’s integrity” through illicit drugs, but found the program highlighted by Andrew Wilkie was not against anti-doping rules.
- by Michael Gleeson
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AFL 2024
Out of harm’s way: AFL’s mental health boss on drugs policy, weight ban
Dr Kate Hall, who treated AFL players with drug and mental health issues in her previous life as a clinical psychologist, says the league is focused on “harm minimisation”.
- by Jake Niall
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Chinese doping scandal has muddied the waters for clean athletes in Paris
Athletes lining up at next month’s Olympics, with no known doping skeletons in the closet, face a harsh reality of the unknown unknowns.
- by Darren Kane
Why the China doping scandal has created a crisis of faith and suspicion
It must be traumatic for any athlete to discover, three years on, that they competed at an Olympics against rivals who, very likely, shouldn’t have been there.
- by Darren Kane
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The wait of history: How and why East German medals should be reallocated
The GDR athletes were victims of doping, too. But if just a fraction of the 489 medals they won over nine Games were reallocated, it might be a worthwhile and cathartic exercise.
- by Darren Kane
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Chinese checkers and the WADA cone of silence
The thing about a cover-up is that there’s nothing to see. It’s the smell that gives it away.
- by Greg Baum
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Australian swimming coach caught up in China drugs scandal
Veteran Australian swimming coach Denis Cotterell has vehemently rejected claims of systemic doping in Chinese swimming after a drug scandal rocked the sport.
- by Tom Decent