Summer Olympian

Performance-enhancing drugs and the Olympics. The proverbial elephant in the room. Someone’s not afraid to talk about it and it’s none other than Victor Conte, head of the infamous Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco) lab and supplier to countless would-be cheaters. In…

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Now if you thought the Sunday New York Times’ front page article “Witness in Track Doping Case Is Ready to Name…

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Perhaps the sole positive to come out of the Olympic torch relay flap is its function as a distraction from a truly international sporting issue: performance enhancers.

The latest casualty of the war on doping is Greek…

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The April 13 Sunday New York Times was a veritable indictment of Beijing 2008 and the Olympics movement. How bad could it have been? The front page upper left hand corner article’s title was ”

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World peace announced. Complete loan forgiveness for all credit card holders. Michael Sedor (that’s me) named to Olympic team. What other news could bring an equivalent smile to this writer’s face? How about this one from the International…

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In what must somehow be April Fools Day related, Bloomberg.com media service reports today that “Deer penis, turtle blood and angelica root potions have joined steroids and amphetamines on the list of banned drugs for Chinese Olympians.”…

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Traditional Chinese herbal medicine will not be used during the Beijing Olympics next year. Other Chinese traditional medical treatments, such as Acupucture and massage, will be used. The decision to ban herbal medicine during the Olympics was…

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Olympic 800m track and field bronze medallist Jolanda Ceplak of Slovenia edged closer to a two-year doping ban today after the nation’s athletics federation rejected any doubts about the validity of the athlete’s positive test for EPO last June.

“All doubts about the tests’ accuracy…

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A Chinese delegation is in Madrid to attend the third World Conference on Doping.

Led by Duan Shijie, vice-minister of the General Administration of Sport, the delegation is comprised of officials from the aforesaid administration, the China Anti-doping Agency, the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Beijing…

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The China Anti-Doping Agency was officially unveiled in Beijing on Monday.

Duan Shijie, Vice-Minister of the General Administration of Sport and Executive Vice-President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), and Du Lijun, Director of the agency, attended the…

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Speaking ahead of the World Conference on Doping in Sport that will open in Madrid next week, IOC President Jacques Rogge said that the fight against doping remained at the top of the agenda of the Olympic Movement. “I would like to reiterate the…

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International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has confirmed that former Olympic champion, famous sprinter Marion Jones, would face further action by the IOC after IAAF’s treatment upon her.

After years of denying she had ever used performance-enhancing drugs, Jones admitted in court that she’d taken…

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Two of Team USA’s biggest stars have taken on the toughest news in the sport, including doping, the Marion Jones debacle and the U.S. media attention on track & field.

Lauryn Williams, the 2005 world champion, 2004 Olympic silver medalist and 2007 World Outdoor silver…

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Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones, winner of 3 gold and 2 bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has finally acknowledged that she took steroids. In a letter to family and friends she admits to taking, beginning in 1999, a designer drug known as “The Clear” or THG…

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