We need a radical solution to clean up doping in elite sport.
- Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
Doping controversy around British cycling and athletics is the latest sign that sports authorities need to do something drastic.
The Therapeutic Use Exemption system of banned medicines in sport creates more problems than it solves, is open to abuse and is simply unfair.
The Team Sky boss is due to give evidence to MP’s at parliament. Here’s what they should ask him.
A new Russian hack has claimed to reveal the details of so-called therapeutic use exemptions. But could transparency in this area be a benchmark for the fight against drugs in sport?
With weeks to go before the Olympics, it’s unlikely Kenya will be sanctioned over fresh doping claims. No matter what happens, a shadow will be cast over the integrity of the country’s athletes.
The ban on Russian athletes at the Rio Olympics feels like a victory, but it masks an insular system which is spread too thin.
Banning Kenya from the Rio Olympics would raise questions about the overall inclusiveness of the Games and equality in global sporting opportunities.
The history of the fight against drug taking in sport shows us why we’re in such a mess right now.
Health risks loom as weekend athletes aiming to beat their mates become a new frontline for anti-doping.
Fresh details about the findings of the World Anti Doping Authority raise questions about athletics chiefs.
Where can sport go when performance-related doping always seems one step ahead? The WADA report should open the door to a more rational future.
Anti-doping authorities divide steroids into good and bad ones. Yet the more you look at them close up, the more similar they actually are.
The world of sport has been rocked by the explosive allegations that surfaced over the weekend.
While world cycling insists it has cleaned up its act, it remains in suspicious times until further notice.
The new report from world cycling’s governing body has confirmed the obvious: doping is out of control. Why waste upwards of £50m a year on fighting it when we could start from the bottom up?
Lance Armstrong’s tough punishment may look deserved, but it may just be the highest-profile example of what’s wrong with anti-doping.
The Gran Fondo New York bicycle race is the biggest mass-participation event of its kind in the state, a 100-mile run between Manhattan and Bear Mountain. In May 2012 the organisers introduced drug testing…
Professor Arnold Beckett, an English chemist and longstanding member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), played a leading role in developing tests to detect drug misuse in sports during the 1960s…
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