News - World Anti-Doping Agency
Mazu Gold, a breakthrough health supplement by Mazu Global has recently been certified by WADA for use by athletes around the world. Carlsbad, CA (PRWEB) March
The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) last Thursday unveiled the WADA accredited anti-doping laboratory, which will operate during the London 2012 Games.
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The conviction of Barry Bonds last week, the 'retirement' of Manny Ramirez, and the ongoing investigations of Roger Clemens and Lance Armstrong are just the tip of the sports-drugs iceberg," Robert Weiner, former spokesman for the White House National Drug Policy Office, said today. Weiner, also a former spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency at the Olympics, gave the Ken Feinberg Distinguished History Lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this week on "Sports and Drugs--a Sordid History." At the lecture and in an oped drawn from the speech that ran today in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Weiner said: "Bonds was not alone in obstructing evidence--he followed the party line.
UK Anti-Doping has today confirmed that England weightlifter Denis Catana has been suspended from all competition for two years following an anti-doping rule violation. (PRWeb UK) January 6, 2011 UK Anti-Doping has today confirmed that England weightlifter Denis Catana has been suspended from all competition for two years following an anti-doping rule violation. Catana tested positive for the Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Metenolone in August 2010 as part of UK Anti-Doping’s pre-Commonwealth Games testing programme and was provisionally suspended from all competition, including the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Findings suggest athletes abuse non-approved therapeutic compounds for performance enhancing effects.
