Anti-doping experts serving on swimming’s Doping Control Review Board were not given the chance to review the 23 positive drug tests by Chinese swimmers before the then Fina (since rebranded World Aquatics) cleared them, notes an exclusive report in The […]
Summer McIntosh made it Paris Olympic tickets No2 and No3 in one race with a 1:53.69 victory in the 200m freestyle on the second day of action at the Canadian Trials in Toronto in a session that delivered a wave […]
Summer McIntosh stamped the first of many likely tickets to events at the Paris Olympic Games with a 3:59.06 win in the 400m freestyle, the opening gambit in her seven-event quest at Canadian Olympic trials in Toronto. The 17-year-old multi-talent […]
Obituary – World swimming is in mourning for Jon Urbanchek, who’s ever-encouraging “keep it movin’ … ” will float across the heavenly pool deck this day after the Michigan legend of coaching passed away at 87. During his time coaching […]
New Dolphins boss Rob Woodhouse has suggested that greater transparency from global anti-doping bosses in the wake of the go-free-23 Chinese positives could help prevent protests at the Paris Olympic Games over the doping controversy that’s sparked a war of […]
As the Go-Free 23 Chinese positives saga pours on to the canvas of doping controversies, old patterns have started to emerge, including a closed training camp in May (we assume not closed to anti-doping testers) and connections in the investigation […]
Was war das denn? … And for his third victory at German Championships in Berlin, Lukas Märtens claimed the … 200m backstroke title, in an 1:56.00, just 0.13sec shy of the 12-year-old national record owned by Jan-Philip Glania. Märtens started […]
Lukas Märtens added to his list of Paris podium targets with a 1:44.14 lifetime best in the 200m freestyle on day 3 at German Championships in Berlin this afternoon. Märtens, who rattled the 400m world record on day 1 of […]
Eric Cottier, the independent prosecutor appointed by WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, to investigate the go-free 23 Chinese swimming doping positives, spent his career working as a leading Swiss prospector in the canton of Vaud, a region that is home […]
Chinada was among organisations releasing statements this week, along with WADA, USADA, Sport Integrity Australia, equivalent anti-doping authorities in several European countries, Drug Free Sport New Zealand, domestic swimming federations and athlete representative organisations such as Global Athlete and Athleten […]
Melvin Imoudu will head to Paris an Olympic pioneer for Germany after clocking the second best of his career in 59.15 to claim the national 100m breaststroke title in Berlin today. The Potsdamer SV ace coached by 1991 World 1500m […]
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has accused the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of failing to make it’s investigation into the go-free 23 Chinese doping positive in swimming truly independent. In an escalation of the battle between anti-doping giants, USADA […]
Lukas Märtens gave it the best stab to grab Paul Biedermann‘s World 400m freestyle record and keep the standard in German hands we’ve ever seen when he sent smoke off the water with a 3:40.33sec victory on the opening day […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency – WADA – is to launch an independent review over its handling of the go-free 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance but were not called to account after Chinada decided the adverse […]
Sport Integrity Australia, the anti-doping watchdog, has backed American USADA’s call for an independent review of the WADA decision to let 23 Chinese swimmers go free after they tested positive for a banned substance in a scandal now overshadowing the […]
The United States Anti-Doping Agency – USADA – issued an urgent call to “governments and sport leaders to step up and immediately undertake action to ensure that real independence, oversight, and accountability” are introduced to the World Anti-Doping Agency – […]
WADA held a online media conference yesterday to offer its fullest response to the storm of criticism over revelations that no action was taken in the cases of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a powerful heart and energy […]
The China Files by ARD – last night, the German television station broadcast its Sportschau program on the new China Doping Crisis in sport coincided with the launch of all four videos, with English subtitles, setting out just why China […]
