Anti-Doping

News, stories, editorials and opinion on the state of doping in the sport of athletics

Rita Jeptoo and 11 other Doping Sanctions

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© Copyright - 2015 - Athletics Illustrated Kenya’s fastest active female marathon runner, Rita Jeptoo, has been suspended by Athletics Kenya for two years. She...

To the IAAF: Ban Russia Now

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© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated In order to save the venerable sport of athletics from becoming viewed merely as a pathetic niche spectacle...

Is Rita Jeptoo Cornered or Is Athletics Kenya Playing Softball?

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© Copyright - 2015 - Athletics Illustrated Rita Jeptoo, the Kenyan marathon runner who was caught testing positive for the banned blood booster, EPO, emerged...

Doping Bans Increased According to new Anti-doping Code

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© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has stepped up recently in regards to battling the performance enhancing drug (PED)...
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Athletics Kenya Admits that Kenya has a doping problem

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From the online publication, Coastweek.com, it appears that Kenya or more accurately Athletics Kenya (AK) and their president Isaiah Kiplagat are now admitting that...

United States Anti-Doping Agency Does the Right Thing

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© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) got it right Wednesday, December 17th, when they announced the banning American...

Is the Sport of Athletics at Great Risk, Citing the latest apparent damning evidence...

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© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated Recently, German television station WRD/ARD aired a three-part documentary on apparent systematic Russian doping and cover-ups and extortion...

The Russian and IAAF drama continues amid more damning evidence

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© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated See message board thread, here. Hajo Seppelt, the German journalist who was the first to report on the ease...

How Russia Makes Champions (Geheimsache Doping: Wie Russland seine Sieger macht).

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See message board thread, here. Geheimsache Doping - full documentary translation into English Documentary by Hajo Seppelt, ARD Broadcast date: December, 3rd 2014 Transcribed into English by Jörg...

Major Doping Scandal Brewing in Russia Thanks to German Television Documentary, ARD

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© Copyright - 2014 - Athletics Illustrated German television and radio journalist, who specialises in sport and doping investigative journalism, Hajo Seppelt, has uncovered what...