Tag: DOPING
Blessing Okagbare gets 10-year ban for doping
The Athletics Integrity Unit has banned Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare from competing professionally for 10 years after finding her guilty of doping.
Okagbare, 33, had...
Doping: ‘I ran faster,’ Blessing Okagbare’s chat with alleged drug supplier...
The United States Justice Department has revealed a chat between Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare and her alleged drug supplier Eric Lira.
Lira, 41, has been...
Blessing Okagbare faces three anti-doping charges
The Athletics Integrity Unit on Thursday said it has charged Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare after she tested positive for human growth hormone and recombinant...
Okagbare loses appeal against ban for doping
Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare has reportedly lost her appeal to upturn the suspension placed on her by World Athletics (WA) after failing an out-of-competition...
FIFA appoints Nigerian, Ayodeji Olarinoye, doping control officer
A former medical doctor in the Nigerian U-17 football team, Dr Ayodeji Olarinoye, has been appointed Doping Control Officer (DCO) by the world football...
Peru captain banned from World Cup for cocaine use
Peru will be without inspirational skipper, Paolo Guerrero, at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Guerrero, 33, was banned by FIFA's disciplinary committee after...
World boxing body suspends Muhammad Ali
Team Great Britain (GB) boxer Muhammad Ali has been provisionally suspended from all international and domestic competitions after testing positive for a banned steroid,...
Okagbare set for Olympic silver medal
Africa's fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare, is set to be awarded the silver medal in the women’s long jump event of the 2008 Beijing Olympic...
Boxing champion, Tyson Fury, tests positive for cocaine
World heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury, has tested positive for cocaine according to multiple media reports.
The 28-year-old recently pulled out of his title defence...
Russian athletes to miss Olympics after losing appeal
Russian athletes will miss this summer's Olympic in Rio de Janeiro after losing an appeal, Friday, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS),...