WADA and USADA at it again: Tygart pushed back on the global authority
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) continue to clash over how doping control should be governed.
USADA chief executive...
Anti-doping agencies race toward 2027 compliance as testing and enforcement intensify
The anti-doping landscape is undergoing another significant shift as national agencies, laboratories, and sporting federations prepare for the implementation of the 2027 World Anti-Doping...
Ethiopian great Gudaf Tsegay suspended for doping
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has handed Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay a four-month suspension following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). The decorated two-time World Champion...
Mexican Yamile Herrera provisionally suspended for the presence of an anabolic steroid
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced Monday that the organization has provisionally suspended Mexican athlete Yamile Herrera. Herrera showed a presence or use of...
East Germany’s doping legacy demands reckoning through Change.org petition
East Germany's doping legacy demands reckoning
From the 1960s to the 1980s, East Germany emerged as a dominant force in the Olympic movement. Its athletes...
Jamaican long jumper Carey McLeod banned for whereabouts failures
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Jamaican long jumper, Carey McLeod, has been banned from racing for a period of two years starting...
Another Kenyan marathon runner, Deborah Sang, was suspended for doping
Another Kenyan marathoner, Deborah Sang, has been handed a five-year ban after testing positive for two performance-enhancing substances, testosterone and prednisolone.
The 26-year-old first tested...
Two athletes’ doping-related cases were heard and suspensions were handed down
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Twenty-seven-year-old recreational runner Patricia Alvarez of Oviedo, Spain, was provisionally suspended in December 2025 for a doping-related...
Sabastian Sawe’s coach, Claudio Berardelli, was associated with at least five athletes suspended for...
Updated: May 16, 2026, 810 AM PST
Editor’s note: The three primary athletes referenced below were coached by Claudio Berardelli while he worked for Rosa...
Kenyan Hillary Kipchirchir Chepkwony has been suspended four years for doping
Hillary Kipchirchir Chepkwony had 17 blood samples taken between September 2022 and January 2025. It was found that his samples, numbers 14 and 15,...
