Spanish cyclist first athlete to fail doping test
Posted August 11, 2008 at 10:34 AM by Martha Jones
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Doping, Events, Cycling/BMX, Special Features, Videos
Spanish cyclist Maria Isobel Moreno became the first athlete to fail a doping test at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The 27-year-old tested positive for EPO having undergone the test on July 31. Excerpts from the International Olympic Committee’s press conference.
Performance-Enhancing Drugs and the Olympics
Posted May 7, 2008 at 09:00 AM by Michael J. Sedor
Section: Beijing 2008, Doping, Culture/History, Olympic History, Socio-Political, Featured Writers, Michael Sedor
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…
Iakovou resigns; Greek weightlifters unlikely to compete in Beijing
Posted April 18, 2008 at 02:00 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Doping, Events, Other, Featured Writers, Os Davis
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…
Why Does Everyone Hate The Beijing Olympics? Part One
Posted April 15, 2008 at 11:00 AM by Michael J. Sedor
Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Doping, Culture/History, Socio-Political, Events, Track & Field, Featured Writers, Michael Sedor
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 ”
Marion Jones’ Name Scrubbed from Olympic Trials Books
Posted January 13, 2008 at 05:07 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: Events, Track & Field
I noticed a couple of days ago that Marion Jones is still listed on the USATF website as the Olympic Trials Champion for 100m (2000), 200m (2000) and Long Jump…
Highlights of last IOC Executive Board Meeting of the Year
Posted December 12, 2007 at 11:41 AM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: Events, Track & Field, Doping
No Chinese Herbs for Beijing Olympians
Posted December 8, 2007 at 05:15 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: Beijing 2008, Doping
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…
MLB Could Save Olympic Baseball - And Help Itself
Posted December 5, 2007 at 06:30 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Other, Columns/Blogs
Major League Baseball has had a long-standing policy that has barred active major leaguers from playing in the Olympic Games Baseball Tournament. Their reasoning has been logical: the Olympic Games fall right in the middle of the…
Slovenia’s Ceplak Edges Closer to Two-Year Doping Ban
Posted November 20, 2007 at 03:17 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: Events, Track & Field, Doping
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…
China Attends World Conference on Doping
Posted November 16, 2007 at 10:10 AM by Jamal Walker
Section: Beijing 2008, Doping
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…
China Anti-Doping Agency Unveiled to Conduct Olympic Drug Tests
Posted November 12, 2007 at 05:58 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: Beijing 2008, Doping
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…
IOC President Asserts Zero Tolerance Against Doping as Top Priority of His Mandate
Posted November 12, 2007 at 11:57 AM by Jamal Walker
Section: Doping
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…
IOC, IAAF move forward on Marion Jones doping case
Posted November 6, 2007 at 03:00 PM by Martha Jones
Section: Events, Track & Field, Doping
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…
U.S. Track Stars Williams, Richards Tackle Tough Issues in WCSN Blogs
Posted October 15, 2007 at 06:12 PM by Martin Kennedy
Section: Events, Track & Field, Doping
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…
Marion Jones’ Fall From Grace Now Officially Complete
Posted October 4, 2007 at 06:17 PM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: Events, Track & Field, Doping
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…
Browser
Recent Comments
Page 2 Articles
- Human Interest Saturdays: Oscar Pistorius
- Athletes Learn Cultural Awareness and the Value of Numerology
- Team Argentina notes: All aboard the bandwagon!
- Royalty Returns to the Olympics
- Mother’s Day Olympians
- Beijing 2008: Last hurrah for Pepu Hernandez
- Beijing Price Tag Difficult for Olympic Parents
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs and the Olympics
- The Pangs of Puerto Rican Patriotism
- Whirlwind Finish and Post-Race Drama at Men’s 10k Open Water Worlds
TFS Media Sites
The Final SprintSite Archives
Links from our blogroll
© 2006-2007 The Final Sprint, LLC - Summer Olympian is a part of the TFS Media Network - Privacy Policy
On August 22, 2008
Hornady said:
i don’t believe to specialists from dance schools.