MARIA SHARAPOVA’S spectacular fall from grace is just the tip of the iceberg, for tennis and for sport. Because the anti-doping panel’s report on the former Wimbledon champion and her failed drugs test at the Australian Open makes it clear she is far from alone in using prescription medicines to enhance performance. Ben Johnson pumping […]
MARIA SHARAPOVA will appeal against her two-year doping ban. But the former Wimbledon champion’s career and reputation are in tatters after a damning verdict on her failed drug test at the Australian Open. The International Tennis Federation failed in a bid to have Sharapova banned for the maximum four years, because the anti-doping panel found […]
Some Premier League players went an entire season without being tested for banned drugs. According to The Times, nearly one third of footballers in the top-flight were not tested during the 2014/15 campaign. The figures show that just 366 players provided blood or urine samples out of a total of about 530. The FA claims […]
Arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester have hit back at allegations they have been involved in a doping scandal. The Sunday Times claims a British doctor was secretly filmed describing how he prescribed performance enhancing drugs to 150 elite sportsmen, including Premier League footballers. And players from the three top-flight clubs — and Birmingham — were allegedly […]