Police work like that which led to the downfall of shamed cycling cheat Lance Armstrong is pivotal to the battle against doping, says World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) Director General Olivier Niggli.
Niggli, who is also an advocate for ensuring proper law enforcement security is in place for whistleblowers, said the police can do things beyond the reach of nationalRead more
Weightlifting is buckling under the burden of a drug-taking culture that has made it one of the most notorious Olympic events.
The sport that first appeared at the Olympics in 1896 accounted for 48 of the 104 positive tests detected in new analyses on samples from the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 in London.
It could get worse as notRead more
The incoming director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said it could be years before the results of August's Rio Olympics are upheld.
Last week saw Australian race walker Jared Tallent belatedly awarded a London 2012 Olympic gold medal after he was promoted from silver four years ago because of a Russian doping case.
"The storage of samplesRead more