Recent Posts Tagged With 'olympics'

• Olympic Doping Update

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 11:53 in hgh, olympics, steroids, olympic, cera, doping, ioc, epo, wada, rogge, re-test

  It has been an interesting week in Olympic Doping News. On October 10th we reported that the IOC would be conducting 5,000 re-tests for CERA and other substances. It turns out that the number will be closer to 1,000 as only targeted samples will be r...

• Tim Montgomery

  Posted on Saturday October 11th, 2008 at 21:20 in cheating, cheat, prison, olympics, steroids, scandal, world record, tim montgomery, heroin, conte, track and field, balco

  Tim Montgomery, the disgraced former 100-meter world record holder, has been sentenced to five years in prison. The sentencing, which came on Friday from Virginia, follows his admission to distributing heroin. Montgomery admitted to BALCO investigato...

• Olympic Doping Retest

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 07:52 in cheat, beijing, olympics, olympic, cera, doping, ioc, epo

  The International Olympic Committee has announced that it will retest over 5,000 samples from the Beijing Olympics for the new blood-boosting drug, CERA. The samples from all sports are being sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency accredited laboratory...

• Chinese Gymnastics Team Update

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 07:47 in china, Chinese, cheat, beijing, olympics, age, olympic, fig, gymnastics, gymnasts

  The Chinese Gymnastics Team has been cleared of any wrong doing in their 2008 gold medal winning performances. International gymnastics officials have closed their nearly 6 week investigation into the ages of the Chinese gymnasts at the Beijing Olymp...

• Chinese Gymnastics Update

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 13:15 in china, Chinese, cheat, olympics, age, gymnastics

  It has been over a month since the closing ceremony of the Beijing games and the announcement that the IOC requested the FIG to investigate the ages of the Chinese Gymnastics Team. Apparently this scandal isn’t just being swept under the rug, b...

• Olympians to be Disqualified?

  Posted on Friday September 19th, 2008 at 20:25 in cheat, olympics, steroids, olympic, doping

  Just when you thought the Olympics were over for another two years, comes word that the the International Olympic Committee will examine several pending doping cases from the Beijing Games this weekend. As Chester predicted in our Olympic Cheating Re...

• Paralympic Cheating Recap

  Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 10:02 in cheat, olympics, recap, paralympics, doping, boosting, bounding

  The Paralympic Games in Beijing are now over, so just as we did for the Olympics, we would like to take a look back at cheating during these games. We have already told you about the Paralympic Doping Scandals, but there is another form of cheating t...

• Paralympic Doping Scandals

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 21:14 in olympics

  The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, is currently being held in Beijing, China. The games have been rocked this week by multiple doping scandals. On Tuesday, Pakistani powerlifter, Naveed Ahmed Butt was sent home after testin...

• Marion Jones

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 21:46 in olympics, female, confirmed, track and field, balco, ped

  Marion Lois Jones is a former world champion American track and field athlete. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since been stripped of every Olympic medal dating back to September 2000 after admitting that ...

• Olympic Cheating Recap

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 21:37 in olympics

  We have seen world records fall, competitions dominated, and results that make you scratch your head. Now with the Olympics over, it is time for our two resident cheating experts to take a look at the performances from the games, and give you their o...

• Lyudmila Blonska

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 in olympics, female, confirmed, track and field

  Lyudmila Blonska is a Ukrainian heptathlete, who was previously exposed and banned in 2003 for doping. Following a second failed drug test during the 2008 Summer Olympics, she was withdrawn from the long jump final, was stripped of her silver medal i...

• Usain Bolt

  Posted on Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 21:29 in male, olympics, track and field, alleged

  Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter who holds world and Olympic records in both the 100 metres and 200 metres, with times of 9.69 seconds and 19.30 seconds, respectively. He is the first man in history to break both world records at one Oly...

• Michael Phelps

  Posted on Sunday August 17th, 2008 at 20:51 in male, olympics, swimming, alleged

  Michael Phelps is an American swimmer and 14-time Olympic gold medalist (the most by any Olympian), who currently holds seven world records in swimming. He holds the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics; a total of eight, surpassi...

• Dara Torres

  Posted on Friday August 15th, 2008 at 23:20 in olympics, female, swimming, alleged

  Dara Torres is the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She competed in the Beijing Olympic Games in the 50 meter freestyle, 4×100 medley relay, and 4×100 freestyle relay and won the si...

• Chinese Gymnastics Team

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 14:17 in team, olympics, female, alleged

  **UPDATE** - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has requested that the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) investigate the ages of the Chinese Gymnasts mentioned in the paragraph below. If they were found to be underage, they would then ...

• Jessica Hardy

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 21:06 in olympics, female, swimming, alleged

  Jessica Hardy is an American swimmer from Long Beach, California. She planned to compete in the Beijing Olympics in the Breaststroke. On July 23, 2008, an anonymous person told the Associated Press that Jessica Hardy’s “A” sample te...

• Maria Isabel Moreno

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 14:59 in cycling, olympics, female

  Spanish road rider Maria Isabel Moreno, 27, has fled the Olympic Village in Beijing before drug testing results were released. However the results of the July 31st test now show that she tested positive for performance enhancing Erythropoietin (EPO)....