Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but at a competition plotting to rival the Games, doping will be objective. 

The director general of the International Testing Agency (ITA), Benjamin Cohen, says that “without data, they cannot stop anything” in the fight against doping practices in Paris 2024.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected American tennis player Sydney Dorcil's appeal against her four-year ban for using prohibited substances.

The Chinese Anti-Doping Agency warned that it would “never” share its information regarding the athletes that tested positive in recent Olympic Games after US Congress demanded details of the probe be made public. Tensions between American officials, the Asian country and WADA keep mounting.

In a US Congress hearing on Tuesday in which they questioned the World Anti-Doping Agency’s handling of the 2021 Chinese swimming drugs scandal, the two great American swimming legends asked for significant reform at the global body’s core.

In light of the ongoing scandal involving 23 Chinese swimmers being allowed to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Games even after testing positive for trimetazidine, Global Athlete has sent out an open letter to the World Anti-Doping Agency stating their mistrust in the organisation and requesting transparency on the investigations taken on the swimmers’ case and actions to be taken going forward to ensure a fair playing field for all athletes. 

US gold medallist Gil Roberts was handed an eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a second time, said the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in a press release. 

The doping scandal that hit the World Anti-Doping agency last April involving 23 Chinese athletes who failed repeated drug tests, as reported by The New York Times, keeps snowballing with the latest announcement by the Asian superpower.

Following a vote by its Executive Committee (ExCo), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has immediately removed the Tunisian National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) from the list of Signatories in non-compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code.

Yuliya Efimova on Friday became the first Russian swimmer to be granted neutral status for the Paris Olympics - but said she might struggle to reach the qualifying standard.

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is preparing to open two temporary offices in Paris for the Olympic Games. There will be one office for the CAS Ad Hoc Division, which will handle all legal disputes that arise during the Summer Games. The second temporary office is for the CAS Anti-Doping Division, which decides on possible doping cases.

World 10,000m bronze medallist and world 10km road record holder Rhonex Kipruto has been suspended for doping related irregularities in his Athlete Biological Passport (ABP).

After a 12-year wait, the American hurdler will be among ten Olympians who will be awarded reallocated Olympic medals in a special ceremony at the Champions Park in the Trocadéro Gardens, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

Kenya's Josephine Chepkoech, runner-up in February's Sevilla Marathon, has received a seven-year ban for committing a second doping violation.

Issamade 'Issam' Asinga, who blamed his positive drug test on "eating recovery gummies", will be stripped of his titles as South American double sprint champion and world U20 100m record holder for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) and banned for four years from 9 August 2023 by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).