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American ski racer Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three whereabouts failures in a 12-month period, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has said. USADA said late Monday that Johnson, 28, had committed the violations on October 29, 2022, June 13, 2023, and October 10, 2023. Athletes must report their whereabouts to be available for random doping tests, and can be banned for up to two years for violations. "In this case, USADA determined that a 14-month period of ineligibility was appropriate because Johnson’s degree of fault was relatively low given the circumstances o...
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Runner Sofia Benfares has been banned for four years for a doping offence by the German Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), one month after her sister, Sara Benfares, was banned for five years. The NADA said on Monday that Sofia Benfares tested positive for the forbidden blood booster erythropoetine (EPO) and all her results between January 11 and her provisional suspension the following month are scrapped. The statement said that Benfares has the right to contest the ruling at a German Court of Arbitration for Sport within 20 days. Benfares, 19, was third over 3,000m at last year's European junior cha...
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German prosecutors have brought criminal charges against track and field athlete Sara Benfares, who has been banned for five years for doping, on suspicion of unauthorized self-doping. The public prosecutor's office in Saarbrücken confirmed the news to dpa on Friday. The German distance runner was banned by the nation's anti-doping agency NADA last month, with the body stating it went beyond the usual four-year sanction because of "aggravating circumstances." It said that five forbidden substances were detected in three doping tests between last September and January, including the steroids te...
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Berlin (dpa) — The World Anti-Doping Agency has found no credible evidence of misconduct in the decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ) in 2021, it said on Monday. WADA was forced to hold an emergency press conference to try to stem the tide of negative headlines after the story first emerged from German broadcaster ARD, the New York Times and Australia's Daily Telegraph. Chinese officials, swimming's governing body and WADA ruled that the 23 had only tested positive due to contamination and the swimmers were able to qualify for the Tokyo Ol...
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German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser has called for a rigorous investigation after reports that 23 Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, where several of them competed after all were cleared. Faeser, who's also responsible for sports, told dpa on Sunday that the reports have shaken confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the global fight against cheating in elite sport. "Just a few months before the Olympic Games, the suspicion the case was ignored or even covered up must be fully investigated as quickly as possible. If there's such a seri...
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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has called for a rigorous investigation after the news broke that 23 Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, where several of them competed after all were cleared. Faeser, who's also responsible for sports, told dpa on Sunday that the news has shaken confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the global fight against cheating in elite sport in the run-up to this summer's Paris Olympics. "Just a few months before the Olympic Games, the suspicion the case was ignored or even covered up must be fully investigated as q...
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German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser has called for a rigorous investigation after reports that 23 Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, where several of them competed after all were cleared. Faeser, who's also responsible for sports, told dpa on Sunday that the reports have shaken confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the global fight against cheating in elite sport. "Just a few months before the Olympic Games, the suspicion the case was ignored or even covered up must be fully investigated as quickly as possible. If there's such a seri...
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German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser has called for a rigorous investigation after reports that 23 Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, where several of them competed after all were cleared. Faeser, who's also responsible for sports, told dpa on Sunday that the reports have shaken confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the global fight against cheating in elite sport. "Just a few months before the Olympic Games, the suspicion the case was ignored or even covered up must be fully investigated as quickly as possible. If there's such a seri...
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Twenty-three Chinese swimmers failed doping tests for the same banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but several of them competed there after not being sanctioned by their country or international authorities. German broadcasters ARD, the New York Times and Australian paper Daily Telegraph said that the governing body World Aquatics, then FINA, and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were satisfied with the Chinese explanation of contaminated food. ARD Sportschau said that its investigation together with the New York Times revealed that the swimmers tested positive for the banne...
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Twenty-three Chinese swimmers failed doping tests for the same banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but several of them competed there after not being sanctioned by their country or international authorities. German broadcasters ARD, the New York Times and Australian paper Daily Telegraph said that the governing body World Aquatics, then FINA, and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were satisfied with the Chinese explanation of contaminated food after looking into the matter. WADA said in response on Saturday it conducted a review process over several weeks and eventually "was...
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