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Paul Pogba, a midfielder for Juventus and France, has been temporarily suspended following a doping test that revealed excessive testosterone levels, the Italian anti-doping agency (Nado) said AFP on Monday. The 30-year-old’s hopes of recovering from...

The coronavirus pandemic is restricting the fight against anti-doping, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said while issuing new guidelines to continue testing of athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Since starting in China late...

Adelaide United’s Danish forward Ken Ilso Larsen was suspended Friday after testing positive for cocaine. The 32-year-old returned a positive sample for benzoylecgonine — the drug’s main byproduct — in January and is now under investigation...

The President of Kenya’s Olympic Committee has called for urgent measures to deal with what he described as the “cancer” of doping among athletes in the east African country. Kenya, renowned for its distance running pedigree,...

World middleweight boxing king Gennady Golovkin accused rival Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of doping on Tuesday,rubbishing the Mexican fighter’s claims that he had failed a recent drugs test due to contaminated meat. In explosive comments to reporters...

Fifteen Russian athletes and staff who controversially had their life bans for doping lifted last week will not be invited to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. The decision was taken...

Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans overturned and their results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi reinstated after their appeals were upheld by sport’s highest tribunal on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration...

China’s Winter Olympic preparations were thrown into controversy after it banned a speed skater for two years for failing a drugs test, the second such case to hit the national team in quick succession. With the...

News Hour Spain’s former Olympic champion Samuel Sanchez has been suspended with immediate effect after testing positive for banned growth hormones, cycling’s governing body said on Thursday. Sanchez, 39, won the 2008 Olympic road race in...

News Hour: Former world number one Maria Sharapova says she is not looking too far ahead after returning from a doping suspension but concedes she is eager to be competing for the biggest titles in tennis...