MADRID - Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes was sentenced to a year in prison by a Madrid court on Tuesday after being found guilty of endangering public health by administering blood transfusions to top cyclists. A former trainer of the Kelme cycling team, Jose Ignacio Labarta, was also found guilty ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) organised a seminar here at medical centre PSB for the awareness of sports persons about the subject of doping and anti-doping on Thursday. A total of 50 sports persons participated in the seminar. Deputy director general (R&T) and anti-doping committee ...

LONDON  - Olympic chief Jacques Rogge vowed no let up in the war on illegal betting and doping on Tuesday as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began its three-day session ahead of the London Games.The 70-year-old IOC president - who is due to step down in September next year after a 12 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal branded comments made by former French tennis player Yannick Noah about doping as "stupid" on Sunday, saying they were the words of a "kid". In an interview in French newspaper Le Monde, Noah said the best way to combat doping was to legalise the use of drugs and also ...

SHANGHAI (AFP) - Brazilian swim star Cesar Cielo escaped a drugs ban Thursday after a high-profile case that left him clear to defend his 50m and 100m titles and lifted a doping cloud from the world championships. The Olympic champion was let off with a warning after testing positive for a banned ...

PARIS (AFP) French rider Mickael Larpe has been handed a two-year ban by the French cycling federation after testing positive for banned blood booster EPO, LEquipe sports daily reported Tuesday. The positive test dates back to March 20, the paper said, adding that the 25-year-old Roubaix-Lille ...

ROME (AFP) Italian Gabriele Bosisio was on Wednesday hit with a two-year doping ban by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO. The 29-year-old ex-LPR team-mate of disgraced former Tour of Italy winner Danilo Di Luca, also serving a dope ban, ...

MELBOURNE (AFP) American tennis player Wayne Odesnik faces a potential two-year ban after pleading guilty to importing human growth hormone into Australia, reports said Saturday. Odesnik, 24, who is ranked 98th, was stopped by customs officers at Brisbane airport on January 2 as he arrived to play ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Up-and-coming Chinese sprinter Wang Jing, who won the womens 100 metres at the National Games, has been stripped of her title after failing a doping test, organisers said Monday. The 21-year-old Wang, who adamantly denied that she had knowingly taken any banned substances, will ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Moroccan Jamel Chatbi pleaded his innocence on Tuesday after a positive test for the banned stimulant clenbuterol made him the first doping casualty of the world athletics championships. An 'A' sample from Chatbi, who had been due to compete in the 3000 metres steeplechase final ...

ATHENS (AFP) - Two Greek lifters participating at the Pescara Mediterranean Games have tested positive for unspecified banned substances, the Greek weightlifting federation said on Wednesday. Both athletes failed a June 1 test while the other, identified as a female athlete, had also failed a May ...

LAHORE - Shortly after the Indian Premier League (IPL) slapped a year long ban on Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif , the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday said that it would not tolerate doping scandals in the sport. ICC's Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said the apex international ...

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif wants the hearing for his doping offence to be held outside India because of its strained relations with Pakistan in the aftermath of the recent attacks in Mumbai. "We are considering asking for the hearing to be held at a neutral venue because of the tense ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Two more powerlifters have been kicked out of the Beijing Paralympics after failing doping tests, bringing the number of athletes expelled from the Games to four, organisers said Thursday. Powerlifters Facourou Sissoko, from Mali, and Liudmyla Osmanova, from the Ukraine, were ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Jamaican track and field officials were quick Saturday to scotch any rumours that their star Olympic medalling athletes were doped, saying that more than half of the team had been tested in Beijing. In the face of a misfiring US team, Jamaica has made merry at the National ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Ukraine's heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska is facing a life ban after the International Olympic Committee confirmed on Friday that her B sample confirmed she had committed a doping offence. The 30-year-old, who has already served a two year ban after testing positive ...

KARACHI (AFP) - Former Pakistan greats Tuesday lambasted Mohammad Asif for failing another dope test, saying the paceman and cricket authorities must share the blame for another "tragedy". The Indian Premier League (IPL) Monday announced that Asif tested positive for a banned substance ...

LAHORE - The Athletics Federation of Pakistan has formed a five-member committee to decide the dope case of the two athletes who were tested positive for banned drug. The two Pakistan athletes Muhammad Shah and Ms. Noshee Parveen who were to represent in the coming Beijing Olympics tested ...