WADA
Equestrian star banned for two years after positive cocaine test
Jamie Kermond, who tested positive for cocaine just before last year’s Olympics, has been handed the maximum punishment by the sport’s governing body.
- by Roy Masters
Latest
Updated
Winter Olympics
Valieva stumbles to fourth place amid doping controversy
Anna Shcherbakova of Russia has upset her teammate Kamila Valieva, who fell during her routine and placed fourth in the free skating program.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Valieva listed two legal oxygen boosters on Olympic forms
WADA filed a brief in the Valieva case stating that the existence of the two legal drugs undercuts the argument that a banned substance might have entered the skater’s system accidentally.
Valieva qualifies first for free skating final as doping scandal rumbles on
Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian competing under a doping cloud in Beijing, has qualified first for the women’s free skating final.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Opinion
Winter Olympics
If the IOC will not stand up to Russia, it is time for a boycott
Any time the IOC confronts an issue of diplomatic magnitude mid-Games, in this instance Kamila Valieva’s reprieve, it sees to it that it becomes somebody else’s problem.
- by Oliver Brown
Cannabis will be taken off WADA banned list, says top sports doctor
Exemptions to use medicinal cannabis while competing, such as the one sought by Lauren Jackson, won’t be needed in the future, according to a respected Australian doctor.
- by Iain Payten
Boxall says a ‘fearless’ Shayna Jack is ready to make her mark
Shayna Jack’s coach Dean Boxall believes she will return a better, more resilient swimmer as she tries to make it back to the Dolphins squad for a packed 2022.
- by Phil Lutton
Exclusive
Off the field
‘Grateful it’s over’: Rickard doping case dropped, major changes to WADA rules
Retired swimmer and dual Olympian Brenton Rickard says he feels “fully vindicated” by the decision, but that the case has taken “a huge toll on my life”.
- by Samantha Lane
Updated
Tokyo Olympics
Sun Yang to ‘persist’ with eye to Paris Games despite being banned again
The court’s verdict ends Sun’s hopes of defending his Olympic title in the 200 meters freestyle in Tokyo next month.
- by Graham Dunbar
Swimmer Sun Yang’s three-day retrial at sports court to start next week
A new verdict in Sun Yang’s doping case from the Court of Arbitration for Sport is expected before the Tokyo Olympics open on July 23.
Opinion
Olympics
Devil is in the lack of detail for Olympic hopefuls over risk of infection in Tokyo
There is a risk the Tokyo Olympics could become the uber-spreader event of the COVID-19 age. Doomsdayist? Perhaps, but nobody has a crystal ball.
- by Darren Kane