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LATEST DOPING NEWS UPDATES IN SPORTS, RIO 2016 AND RUSSIA

Rafael Nadal wins defamation case against former French minister who accused him of faking injury to hide positive drugs test on television

16/11/17 16:57

Rafael Nadal has won a defamation case against former French health and sports minister Roselyne Bachelot after she accused him of doping on television. Bachelot made the allegation about the 16-time Grand Slam champion to the D8 channel in March 2016.  She has been handed a £454 fine by a court in Paris and ordered to pay £10,700 in damages and legal fees. The ex-minister from 2007-2010 alleged that Nadal had faked an injury in 2012, when he missed the final six months of the season due to knee problems, in order to hide a positive drug test....read

16/11/17 10:39

DAN ROAN - BBC SPORTS EDITOR: With no clarity over what was in the jiffy bag, this is a wholly unsatisfactory end to a saga that has tainted some of the biggest reputations in British sport.

15/11/17 23:41

MATT LAWTON - CHIEF SPORTS REPORTER: Sir Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky were swiftly reminded on Wednesday night that they have been not been exonerated.

15/11/17 15:31

MATT LAWTON: The UKAD have closed their investigation into the Team Sky jiffy bag, conceding that they have been unable to establish the contents of the package.

11/11/17 23:01

EXCLUSIVE: Russia are on the brink of a Winter Olympics ban that will cause diplomatic outrage in Moscow — after whistle-blower Grigory Rodchenkov provided fresh damning evidence.

11/11/17 00:33

Russia's chances of avoiding a total ban from the 2018 Winter Olympics received a huge blow on Friday when the World Anti-Doping Agency revealed it has new evidence of cheating.

08/11/17 09:10

The 32-year-old tested positive for the banned blood-boosting drug Erythropoietin on February 28 and was provisionally suspended on April 3, ruling her out of the 2017 London Marathon.

02/11/17 18:20

The International Olympic Committee has handed out its first two life bans to athletes identified in Richard McLaren's 2016 report into Russia's state-sponsored doping programme.

31/10/17 09:28

The 34-year-old, twice a double Olympic champion, who retired from track running after the World Championships in the summer, has decided to move his base back to London

25/10/17 01:08

ADAM CRAFTON: Tracey Crouch believes public trust has been eroded and called on the World Anti-Doping Agency to launch a review into Therapeutic Use Exemptions.

20/10/17 01:37

Freeman told UKAD investigators he had administered triamcinolone — a drug that is banned in competition without a medical certificate — to staff and non-athletes.

11/10/17 10:17

Mike Miller, CEO of the World Olympics Association was speaking to anti-doping leaders at a Westminster forum on integrity in sport this week, when he suggested the radical method.

03/10/17 16:45

The International Cycling Union says the 30-year-old Stefano Pirazzi is suspended until May 3, 2021. He tested positive for growth hormone-releasing peptides in training.

02/10/17 13:23

A UK Athletics statement confirmed the 31-year-old is accused of breaching IAAF Anti-Doping Rule Article 2.1, concerning ‘presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers'.

23/09/17 01:16

The anti-doping body said traces of the anabolic steroid Clostebol had been found during routine testing after Benevento's 1-0 defeat to Torino on September 10.

21/09/17 04:50

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, 30, was banned from professional tennis for 15 months for taking the banned drug meldonium.

20/09/17 17:57

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has denied Tyson Fury's claim that it is to blame for the long delay in the case against him and his cousin Hughie Fury.

19/09/17 23:04

Stephen and Michael McConville attempted to deceive stewards when banned substances were found in their possession at the Cheltenham Festival, as the pair were banned for three years.

13/08/17 00:06

Pound, whose report concluded that doping in Russia was state sponsored, has said that the IOC’s reputation would be as disreputable as FIFA’s were it to accept the money.

01/08/17 23:42

MATT LAWTON: Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah looks almost certain to contest the World Championships in London without his coach and mentor, Alberto Salazar, at his side.

01/08/17 22:31

MATT LAWTON: Usain Bolt's urine will be travelling by Eurostar during the London World Athletics Championships after WADA revealed sampled will be taken to Ghent by train.

25/07/17 00:23

FIFA said that 379 tests were carried out on players at the eight-team tournament, which finished at the start of this month. The event acts as a dress rehearsal for next year's World Cup in Russia.

24/07/17 18:31

Russia plans to send 19 athletes to the track and field World Championships in London next week despite their suspension from international competition for widespread doping.

09/07/17 09:09

FIFA should appoint an independent external investigator to probe at least 34 football cases arising from Russia's pan-sport doping scandal, according to the former president of WADA.

06/07/17 07:54

MATT LAWTON: Sir Mo Farah has been named in a cache of files leaked by the Fancy Bears hackers, with one document appearing to suggest he was under suspicion by IAAF anti-doping chiefs.

01/07/17 15:21

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko reacted angrily to a question about doping and sarcastically offered to perform a Russian dance if the media stopped asking him.

28/06/17 01:09

The 32-year-old had been selected in the Trek's nine-man squad for the Tour - which starts in Dusseldorf on Saturday - as a support rider for designated leader Contador.

25/06/17 22:30

IAN HERBERT IN SOCHI: Mutko has attempted to laugh off a FIFA doping investigation into the 2014 World Cup squad, despite evidence that the players may have benefited from state-sponsored cheating.

04/05/17 00:21

Goldie Sayers can understand Paula Radcliffe’s threat to sue over the proposal to strip all world records pre-2005 despite being cheated out of an Olympic medal by a doper.

26/04/17 00:48

The 40-year-old former heptathlete is set to be upgraded to third place at the 2008 Beijing Games after the IOC announced on Monday the disqualification of Tatyana Chernova.

25/04/17 19:54

Ennis-Hill is due to receive heptathlon gold from Daegu 2011 after she was upgraded from silver when Tatyana Chernova was stripped of her title following a doping offence.

04/04/17 18:12

It looks like she'll get to wear all white again sooner than she hoped. And to celebrate the 29-year-old rocked a chic all black outfit as she stepped out in NY. The tennis ace looked confiden

03/04/17 22:44

MATT LAWTON: The IOC have been accused of failing to follow ‘correct procedures’ after opting not to investigate a number of positive drugs tests, including Jamaican sprinters.

03/04/17 10:33

The IAAF says its has been hacked by the 'Fancy Bears' group and that information on athletes' therapeutic use exemption (TUE) applications has been compromised.

30/03/17 19:14

The positive samples take to 34 the number of Russian athletes who have been sanctioned following reanalysis, as recommended by the McLaren report into doping.

27/03/17 17:44

Maria Sharapova will be open about her 12-month drugs ban when she speaks Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, CA, at a conference on inspiring women in sport. She competes again in April.

25/03/17 20:04

Wiggins, 36, promised he would have 'a lot to say' when the investigation into claims he was injected with triamcinolone at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine race, was finished.

25/03/17 12:56

Wiggins described claims he may have broken anti-doping rules - which he strongly denies - as 'horrible' and 'the worst thing to be accused of when you're a man of my integrity'.

16/03/17 22:36

MATT LAWTON: The crisis at Team Sky deepened on Thursday night after a former rider admitted breaking cycling’s doping rules by injecting himself with a cocktail of vitamins.

13/03/17 22:32

MARTHA KELNER: The man whose explosive report blew the lid off Russian doping has cast serious doubt over whether the country will be ready to compete at the Winter Olympics in 2018.

09/03/17 17:52

Premier League side Bournemouth faced sanctions from the Football Assocation after breaking regulations on providing accurate 'club whereabouts' information.

09/03/17 00:23

MATT LAWTON AND MARTHA KELNER: Senior sources have confirmed to Sportsmail that medical staff did not follow protocols by 'centrally logging' the infusion on the UK Athletics system.

09/03/17 00:17

EXCLUSIVE: Team Sky's search for marginal medical gains extended to the point that they even tested the sex pill Viagra to establish if it had performance-enhancing benefits at altitude.

04/03/17 22:30

The British multiple Olympic champion is the focus of renewed attention after a leaked copy of a report by USADA raised fresh concerns over the methods of coach Alberto Salazar.

04/03/17 12:43

EXCLUSIVE - MATT LAWTON: American anti-doping investigators have asked their British counterparts to release Sir Mo Farah's drug test samples so they can be re-tested

04/03/17 12:39

As UK Anti-Doping chiefs revealed this week, there have been gaps in the record-keeping of Dr Freeman and a large order of triamcinolone that the crisis-hit cycling team have been unable to explain.

03/03/17 18:31

On Friday, the BBC reported that the USADA dossier also said the 58-year-old American may have committed an anti-doping rule violation for possessing testosterone.

02/03/17 00:58

MATT LAWTON: As Damian Collins observed on Wednesday, Team Sky's claim to be the cleanest and most ethical cycling team in the world can no longer be taken seriously.

01/03/17 22:30

MATT LAWTON: The credibility of Team Sky and British Cycling was said to be 'in tatters' on Wednesday night after a devastating evidence session in front of MPs.

19/02/17 20:33

SPECIAL REPORT BY NICK HARRIS: The man who led Russia's 2018 World Cup bid and a key ally of Vladimir Putin is facing a new scandal over claims he silenced a drugs whistleblower.

16/02/17 23:48

The unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion's last two fights have come after his original opponents - Alexander Povetkin and Andrzej Wawrzyk - tested positive for banned substances.

16/02/17 17:07

Following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing, Manchester City have been fined £35,000 after admitting a breach of The FA's Rules on Anti-Doping.

13/02/17 23:48

Russia was banned from the Rio Paralympics following the revelations of systematic doping, and the taskforce unanimously recommended that the suspension remain in place.

11/02/17 00:52

Caster Semenya is set to become a double Olympic champion after Russian drugs cheat Mariya Savinova was stripped of 800 metres gold fromLondon 2012.

10/02/17 13:59

Spain's anti-doping organisation expects to be able to resume drug testing once the government approves a global code. A lack of testing in Spanish football has been highlighted.

09/02/17 23:20

MARTIN SAMUEL: The FA, we now know, feed us both lies and myths. Lies about players who fail drug tests and myths about the spotlessness of their sport and the individuals within.

08/02/17 17:29

The five-time Grand Slam winner has been given a wildcard for the event, which begins on May 5. It is scheduled to be her second comeback tournament after her suspension for doping.

08/02/17 09:35

Harper-Nelson posted a statement on her Twitter account, admitting she had made a mistake and saying that she'd learned her lesson and hoped her experience would serve as a warning to others.

06/02/17 23:47

The country will stay as global outcasts because they were judged not to have made significant enough improvements since widespread doping in the country was exposed.

03/02/17 23:08

MATT LAWTON: Lord Coe is likely to resist fresh calls for him to reappear before a parliamentary select committee to face questions about what he knew of corruption in his sport.

01/02/17 18:57

Usain Bolt is refusing to dwell on the anguish of losing his Beijing Olympics 4x100 metres gold medal after his Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned stimulant.

01/02/17 18:45

The 27-year-old full-back quit Cronulla after testing positive for cocaine, shortly after helping the Sharks to their premiership win over Melbourne in October. Earlier this month Barba signed a new contract.

01/02/17 16:16

Sky Bet League Oone side Fleetwood Town have been fined £4,000 by the Football Association for failing to keep accurate records of players' whereabouts for doping tests.

01/02/17 00:51

MATT LAWTON: New evidence has left Lord Coe open to accusations that he DID mislead MPs over when he knew about the athletics doping scandal.

31/01/17 18:22

Russell committed the violation 11 months ago after registering three filing failures in 2015. That constitutes a failed drugs test under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules.

28/01/17 14:18

Manchester City will be fined after accepting a FA charge for breaching anti-doping regulations. A regulatory commission is expected to sit in the next two weeks to decide on the punishment.

27/01/17 21:58

It will be more than eight years late arriving, and it's bronze but none of this matters one bit to the Brazilian, who takes the medal after Nesta Carter's positive drugs test led to Jamaican disqualification.

12/01/17 19:22

Lei Cao, Xiexia Chen and Chunhong Liu have all been disqualified from the 2008 Games after samples were re-tested as part of the International Olympic Committee's crackdown on doping.

10/01/17 23:23

Lord Coe will reject calls to reappear in front of MPs this month — even after concerns were raised over a 'lack of credibility' in his previous evidence to a parliamentary doping inquiry.

10/01/17 15:57

MATT LAWTON: Sir Dave Brailsford’s position as principal of Team Sky was looking precarious after evidence he gave to the Culture, Media and Sport select committee was described as ‘extraordinary’.

06/01/17 10:34

Despite playing for loan club Sevilla on Wednesday in the Copa del Rey against Real Madrid, Samir Nasri is still under investigation by Spain’s anti-doping agency after his trip to LA.

28/12/16 08:18

The second part of Richard McLaren's report found that more than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme from 2011-2015 that included cheating at London 2012.

09/12/16 22:32

MARTIN SAMUEL: In 2018, all roads will lead to Russia and the next World Cup. That is the prize Vladimir Putin should lose. That would be the punishment that fits his crime against sport.

23/11/16 22:01

MATT LAWTON - EXCLUSIVE: Sutton has agreed to give evidence to the parliamentary select committee that is looking into the Sir Bradley Wiggins therapeutic use exemption controversy.

10/11/16 22:39

The Russian former world number one, 29, got her two-year ban reduced to 15 months on appeal paving the way for her to return to her role as an ambassador when she returns to the court in April.

27/10/16 19:06

The 26-year-old featherweight, from Glasgow, confessed to a UK anti-doping tribunal that he had struggled with ‘alcohol and cocaine’ and ‘wasn’t living like a professional’.

26/10/16 19:41

The IOC has been gradually working its way through a backlog of cases thrown up by the more than 1,200 samples it retested from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 in the build-up to the Rio Games.

15/10/16 12:00

Over recent days, a team of anti-doping regulators swooped on the British Cycling HQ in Manchester, the 'dream factory' where the team's sensational Rio Olympics campaign was orchestrated.

08/10/16 01:18

SPORTSMAIL INVESTIGATION: There was shock as the Manchester headquarters of both British Cycling and Team Sky was raided by investigators from UK Anti-Doping on Friday.

07/10/16 15:58

SPORTSMAIL INVESTIGATION: Doping chiefs are looking into allegations centred around the package and whether it was requested by Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman for Wiggins.

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