Doping regulations
FILE - A fan of Kenya holds up a national flag during the final in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on July 23, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. World Athletics President Seb Coe said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022 that reports about a possible full-scale ban for Kenya due to a protracted doping crisis were misguided, and that increased funding and vigilance from the Kenyan government persuaded authorities to stop short of the most radical sanctions. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Kenya avoids track doping ban; Russia gets mixed news

By Eddie Pells Nov. 30, 2022 12:42 PM EST

FILE - Garrett Scantling, of the United States, makes an attempt in the shot put competition in the men's heptathlon at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 18, 2022. Scantling, the U.S. decathlon champion, will miss the Paris Olympics due to a ban imposed after he falsified an email in trying to cover up a missed doping test. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, that the 29-year-old, who won national championships earlier this year, had accepted a three-year ban retroactive to June 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
US decathlon champ out for Paris after missed doping tests

By Eddie Pells Nov. 18, 2022 03:18 PM EST

Russian Kamila Valieva, foreground, prepares to compete in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, as her coach Eteri Tutberidze, right, looks at her at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. With its teams suspended from international competitions such as the Grand Prix series, Russia is holding its own series of figure skating events in various cities, also under the Grand Prix name. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian skater Valieva could miss 2026 Olympics over doping

Nov. 14, 2022 06:49 AM EST

WADA forces hearing in Russian skater Valieva's doping case

Nov. 08, 2022 09:51 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday it sent the Beijing Olympics case of teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva to sport’s highest...

FILE - Russia's Natalya Antyukh, right, powers ahead of United States' Lashinda Demus to win gold in the women's 400-meter hurdles final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Russian runner Natalya Antyukh was disqualified on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022 from her 400-meter hurdles win at the 2012 London Olympics for doping, and Lashinda Demus of the United States is set to be upgraded to the gold medal. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza, File)
Russian runner stripped of 2012 Olympics title for doping

Oct. 24, 2022 12:35 PM EDT

Madison Chock, left, and Evan Bates, of the United States, acknowledge the audience after performing during the Ice Dance Free Dance program at the Grand Prix Skate America Series, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Norwood, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
American skaters blast RUSADA secrecy in Valieva doping case

By Dave Skretta Oct. 23, 2022 04:18 PM EDT

FILE- Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, falls in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency will treat the Kamila Valieva doping case which shook figure skating at the Winter Olympics as confidential and won’t publish a verdict, it was announced Friday, Oct. 21, 2022 Valieva won Olympic gold in the team competition before finding out she tested positive for a banned substance before the Beijing Games. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Russian agency won't publish doping verdict in Valieva case

Oct. 21, 2022 11:12 AM EDT

FILE - Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. Eight months after finishing behind the Russians at the Winter Games, the U.S. team has yet to receive its medals, or even know whether they will be silver or gold. That’s because only recently did the Russian Anti-Doping Agency complete its painfully slow investigation into Kamila Valieva, the now-16-year-old whose positive doping test that surfaced during the opening week of the Olympics led to its biggest scandal in years. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
US figure skaters still await medals from Beijing Games

By Dave Skretta Oct. 19, 2022 02:46 PM EDT

FILE - Kamalpreet Kaur, of India, competes during the qualification round of the women's discus throw at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 31, 2021, in Tokyo. Olympic discus finalist Kamalpreet Kaur was banned for three years for doping with an anabolic steroid, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Olympic discus finalist Kaur of India gets 3-year doping ban

Oct. 12, 2022 10:13 AM EDT

FILE - United States sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the first heat of the semis finals in women's 100-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on June 19, 2021, in Eugene, Ore. Cannabis use will stay banned at sports events after the World Anti-Doping Agency on Friday Sept. 23, 2022 resisted calls to change its status on the list of prohibited substances. The agency was asked to review the status of THC after the case of Richardson, who did not go to the Tokyo Olympics last year. She served a one-month ban on testing positive at the trials meet where she won the 100 meters. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Marijuana stays on doping banned list; opiate tramadol added

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 23, 2022 05:19 AM EDT

2012 Olympic finalist banned using evidence from Russian lab

Aug. 18, 2022 11:21 AM EDT
MONACO (AP) — A Russian shot putter who reached the 2012 Olympic final was banned Thursday based on 10-year-old evidence of state-backed doping that had long been...

FILE - An athlete trains before the World Athletics Championships, Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. Shortly after last year’s Olympics, the urine samples of some six dozen athletes came back with traces of a banned stimulant. Career-altering penalties loomed. But they were avoided thanks to some nimble sleuthing by anti-doping scientists in the U.S. and Germany. The scientists discovered the stimulant could be found in an ingredient present in an over-the-counter sunscreen. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Doping sleuths keep sunscreen from burning track stars

By Eddie Pells Jul. 15, 2022 01:00 PM EDT

Swiss sprinter Alex Wilson banned 4 years for steroid use

Jun. 28, 2022 06:12 AM EDT
BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss sprinter Alex Wilson was banned for four years on Tuesday after an anti-doping tribunal judged he intentionally used an anabolic...

FILE - Blessing Okagbare, of Nigeria, races in a women's 200-meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 30, 2019. Sprinter Okagbare's doping violations will keep her Nigerian teammates from participating in the 4x100 meter relay at next month's world championships. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Okagbare doping case DQs Nigerian relay team from worlds

By Eddie Pells Jun. 27, 2022 06:13 PM EDT

FILE - President of the International Weightlifting Federation Tamas Ajan speaks during the opening ceremony of the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. The former IOC member who ran weightlifting’s governing body for more than 40 years has banned for life for corrupting the sport’s anti-doping program. The Court of Arbitration for Sport found Tamss Ajan guilty of tampering and hiding doping cases. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
Life ban for weightlifting president for doping cover-ups

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 16, 2022 07:36 AM EDT

FIFA bans player for 18 months for same substance as Valieva

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 13, 2022 10:52 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA banned Ivory Coast goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo for 18 months on Monday in a doping case involving the same substance that Russian figure skater...

FILE - Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, falls in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. No 15-year-old figure skaters will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Olympics following the controversy surrounding Russian competitor Kamila Valieva at this year's Beijing Games. A new age limit for figure skaters at senior international events was passed Tuesday, June 7, 2022 by the International Skating Union in a 110-16 vote that will raise the minimum age to 17 before the next Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
WADA says fresh court ruling can reopen Russian doping cases

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 11, 2022 02:23 PM EDT

FILE - Winner Nikolay Lipkin celebrate after winning the C1 relay men 200m final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships 2014 with teammate Andrey Kraitor, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Three Russian canoeists including a gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics have been banned or being part of the state-backed doping program eight years ago. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld appeals filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after the International Canoe Federation refused to prosecute individual cases. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
Russian canoeists banned for being in state doping program

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 10, 2022 03:46 AM EDT

Russian seeks to keep senior role at skating federation

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 27, 2022 01:14 PM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — A Russian official was among the candidates announced Wednesday for the International Skating Union’s elections in June, if he is allowed to stand to...

FILE - Nijat Rahimov, of Kazakhstan, acknowledges the applause after receiving his gold medal for the men's 77kg weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 10, 2016. Rahimov has been stripped of his 2016 title for doping and banned for eight years, it was announced Tuesday, March 22 2022. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Kazakh lifter was guilty of “four urine substitutions.” (AP Photo/Mike Groll, file)
2016 Olympic champion weightlifter disqualified for doping

Mar. 22, 2022 12:08 PM EDT