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The Jamaica Anti-doping Commission (JADCO) received a staggering 16 million Jamaican dollar to be used for this year’s competition testing and public education programs.
Since last year, the government has increased the funding support to JADCO to ensure the integrity of Jamaica’s anti-doping system, the Business Standard reports.
“We will [...]
There’s nothing wrong with helping a friend in need unless you’re doing it the way Longhorns pitcher Corey Knebel did.
On Friday, Knebel was barred from playing in the Texas-Kansas State series after he allegedly tried to ‘save’ a teammate from a mandatory drug test by supplying his own urine samples.
An unnamed [...]
UFC featherweight Robbie Peralta was given a six-month suspension following a positive drug test for marijuana use.
The Californian fighter and 25 others submitted to a drug test on April 6 in Sweden as a requisite to their participation on the UFC Stockholm 2013. In the end, Peralta was the only one who [...]
When the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation announced in 2011 the updated drug screening procedures at selected combative sports it was widely assumed the policy would include testing for most, if not all, commonly used performance-enhancing drugs like steroids. But according to Susan Sanford, Public Information Officer for the Department, such policy is almost [...]
Current WBO Welterweight champion Timothy Bradley made it clear that every boxer who wants to get in the ring with him must undergo random drug test the same way he does.
Bradley is set to face Ruslan Provodnikov on March 16 and both have agreed to random urine and blood testing leading up to [...]
Effective Aug. 1, 2013, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will be implementing a stricter guidelines in drug testing students athletes for marijuana use.
The organization’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) announced on Jan. 25 that marijuana drug testing threshold will be lowered from 15 [...]
Dana White, the outspoken president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), told reporters on Thursday at a press conference that increasing random drug testing among fighters could result to more positive marijuana tests, the Yahoo! Sports reports.
“Forget about PEDs,” White said. “If we get into this system that we’re talking about where [...]
When it comes to performance-enhancing drugs, professional sports figures and student-athletes are often the target of controversy. How many times have we heard of an athlete being suspended or stripped of titles because s/he was found using anabolic steroids or testosterone?
Given the prevalence of steroids use and abuse among athletes, schools across the [...]
The stage is all-set for this weekend’s fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, who will be facing each other for the fourth time, but the issue about additional drug testing for either camp isn’t just ready to die down.
So to set the record straight, promoter Bob Arum had finally spoken [...]
Senior Vice President of Law & Labor Policy for the National Football League (NFL) acknowledged that the number of positive drug test results for amphetamines had increased in the league.
Since the start of the last season, more than 10 players suspended for failing drug tests have publicly blamed it on taking the [...]
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