Posts tagged with: wada

Desco's doping spells bad news...

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Sun 11 Oct '09

News that the newly-crowned World women’s mountain running champion Elisa Desco had tested positive for a (as yet unnamed) banned substance may come as a shock to many in the mountain running scene. Read more…
IAAF backs Whereabouts

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Fri 06 Mar '09

With backing from athletics golden girls Blanka Vlasic and Paula Radcliffe on the new WADA Whereabouts system will be split further. Athletes from many sports have expressed their dislike, but now the IAAF has thrown it’s weight behind it… Read more…
Whatever your sport, this is shocking...

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Tue 10 Feb '09

Okay, so it might appear that we are some kind of drugs crusade. No, we aren’t trying to be judge and jury to the world’s doping ills, but what we are trying to do is highlight a view that this has all gone on too long and the tipping point is nigh for the sports dopers. Read more…
Clarity on Whereabouts from WADA

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Mon 02 Feb '09

This one is set to run and run. After news of the Belgian challenge WADA has moved quickly to clarify with the publishing of the document below. In an effort to quell those suggestions that it is aimed at inconveniencing athletes it outlines the ADAMS Wherebabouts code in a little more detail in a Q&A style: Read more…
Dope is big news again

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Wed 28 Jan '09

It seems that since the chimes of Big Ben took us into 2009 the bells begin to toll again and doping rears its ugly head in many sports. Read more…
Challenge to new WADA code

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Thu 22 Jan '09

It seems that human rights issues are high on almost every new piece of legislation these days. On the 1st of Jan WADA published its new code. Read more…