Sentences with phrase «of doping tests»

Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds athletics body's decision to ban Russian athletes from Rio Olympics after widespread failures of doping tests

Not exact matches

Dr. Christine Ayotte, director of the Doping Control Laboratory, showing reporters around the drug - testing facility that served Vancouver 2010 Olympics, seen here in a file photo.

For future studies, they suggested, researchers should test the performance of doped chess players given a much longer time limit, so the study could isolate the positive effects of brain drugs.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea A despondent mood swept through Russian athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Saturday, their hopes of being able to fly the Russian flag at the closing ceremony deflated by a second positive doping test.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea A second Russian athlete has tested positive for a performance - enhancing drug at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, a major blow for the nation's hopes of regaining its Olympic status and drawing a line under years of doping scandals.

A drug - testing officer has admitted that he gave Kenyan runner Asbel Kiprop advance warning of a supposedly unannounced out - of - competition doping test, a clear violation of protocol that renews doubts about the...

Armstrong, who has never failed a doping test, did not admit guilt but said that he was tired of fighting the accusations.

If a second test comes back positive, she will be guilty of doping and stripped of her recent titles.

And days after complaining last week, preparations for Saturday's Premier League match against West Brom were interrupted when a 10 doping officers descended on the club's London Colney training centre for what Wenger described as an unprecedented out - of - competition random drugs testing swoop.

Out of those 26 top 10 Grand Tour finishes, 17 were voided due to failed drug tests and doping confessions.

So it seems that one of the Dinamo Zagreb players, Arijan Ademi, has failed a doping test after the tie with Arsenal in Croatia, although it will not be fully confirmed until UEFA have studied his B sample before any punishment can be applied.

Nobody cared, or when we lost to some team we barely heard of in the CL, one of them is caught doping, and I think he's the only one they tested, again nobody cared.

There are mainly 3 things that may however incite a sports org to invest more seriously in testing: 1) Pressure from the fans, 2) Pressure from athletes themselves, 3) Risks of being eventually recognized as facilitating or being complicit with doping, especially if athletes are at greater risk of morbidity either during their careers, or even after.

In recent years, there have been a handful of positive tests for blood doping techniques like EPO that have ravaged cycling.

Notice of testing, corrupt doping control officers, falsification of lab results and substantial financial support through government grants purportedly designated for research also helped keep doping undercover.

April 13 — Peru captain Paolo Guerrero's dreams of leading his country into the World Cup in June could be shattered if the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) appeal to increase his ban for a positive doping test is successful.

Three more athletes have tested positive for doping in reanalysis of samples from the 2012 Olympic Games, including a Russian relay SILVER medalist.

With no viable testing mechanism on the horizon, it is possible that at least one of the 10,000 - plus Olympic competitors in Beijing this summer will have experimented with gene doping.

For example, he recently contributed to the development of a test for human growth hormone doping, bringing experts together to offer guidance on the design of the studies and to guarantee that new tests are fit for antidoping purposes, scientifically and legally.

As of the 2012 Olympics a new drug test should be better able to detect hGH doping than ever before.

With no viable testing mechanism on the horizon, the possibility remains that at least one of the 10,000 - plus Olympic competitors in Athens this summer will have experimented with gene doping.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)-- not part of WADA — for instance, built a 2004 doping case against sprinter Michelle Collins in part on indirect evidence, including years of urine tests that showed «extreme fluctuations» in her testosterone levels.

Rather than ordinary spot - testing approaches, which look for unnatural ratios between biological constituents in a single sample or for direct chemical evidence of known doping agents, the passport allows investigators to see the big picture — any deviations from the rider's test - established norm that might result from doping, even if the specific drug or tactic remains unknown.

«The deterrent effect of delayed testing with newly devised analytical methods is substantial,» says the Consensus Statement, which suggests that in future it should be possible to detect the way in which doping can leave a «molecular signature» on individual cells.

Alberto Contador, a three - time Tour de France champion from Spain, was found guilty of doping Monday after he tested positive in 2010 for a performance - enhancing drug.

But a plasticizer is so ubiquitous in people that it has clouded the results of these blood doping tests in the world of professional cycling.

But Contador's case has been controversial since the beginning, and he has vowed to appeal the ruling, saying that the widespread use of plasticizers in the environment has clouded the testing efforts of the sport's doping police.

A course of six tests over a year, or even a shorter span of time, he says, gives doping testers a good idea of an athlete's profile.

Among the new tests Cowan expects will be ready in time for the games are a more accurate test for human growth hormone (HGH) and a test for autologous blood doping, a method athletes use to boost the number of red blood cells and oxygen in circulation by drawing their own blood, storing it, and then transfusing it back into themselves.

To pick another example, WADA has announced that it has developed a test for gene doping, in which athletes could inject themselves with specific genes to improve muscle - building or endurance — in spite of the fact that, to date, there has been no known successful use of gene - doping techniques.

FIFA launched its investigation into possible problems with food contamination in connection with doping tests in 2011, prompted by five positive doping tests involving clenbuterol in members of the Mexican national football team during out - of - competition doping tests.

The implication — if applied to athletes — is that there is only a small «risk» of being tested positive for rHuEpo doping while athletic performance is greatly enhanced.

As a result, the authors suggest that blood - based indirect rHuEpo tests may offer greater advantages for detecting the drug, and this approach would also be useful for detecting other kinds of blood doping.

The new tests turned up evidence of doping among some athletes who originally had been deemed «clean» of drugs.

Tests immediately before and during a competition find evidence of doping on average of only 1 - 3 percent.

Scientists have retested blood samples taken from athletes in the London games and found that some athletes who originally tested «clean» of drugs actually had been doping.

In 2007 the Informed - Choice program was established by HFL Sports Science, one of the world's leading independent third party doping control laboratories that has been undertaking drug testing for sports since 1963.

The film starts as a sort of Super Size Me for doping with Fogel using himself as a guinea pig to explore how easy it is for amateur cyclists to trick drug tests.

Susan M. Case, the Director of Testing for the National Conference of Bar Examiners, gives us the straight dope in the article The Testing Column: Standards on the MPRE -LRB-.