Melvin Imoudu will head to Paris an Olympic pioneer for Germany after clocking the second best of his career in 59.15 to claim the national 100m breaststroke title in Berlin today. The Potsdamer SV ace coached by 1991 World 1500m […]
Eric Cottier, the independent prosecutor appointed by WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, to investigate the go-free 23 Chinese swimming doping positives, spent his career working as a leading Swiss prospector in the canton of Vaud, a region that is home […]
Chinada was among organisations releasing statements this week, along with WADA, USADA, Sport Integrity Australia, equivalent anti-doping authorities in several European countries, Drug Free Sport New Zealand, domestic swimming federations and athlete representative organisations such as Global Athlete and Athleten […]
The Vortex is SOS’ digest and soak of swimming news, views and links to noteworthy mainstream media coverage of the sport, additions to the file made most days and collated in one monthly file. Friday Vortex, April 26 – Swimming […]
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has accused the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of failing to make it’s investigation into the go-free 23 Chinese doping positive in swimming truly independent. In an escalation of the battle between anti-doping giants, USADA […]
Lukas Märtens gave it the best stab to grab Paul Biedermann‘s World 400m freestyle record and keep the standard in German hands we’ve ever seen when he sent smoke off the water with a 3:40.33sec victory on the opening day […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency – WADA – is to launch an independent review over its handling of the go-free 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance but were not called to account after Chinada decided the adverse […]
ARD sits down with Brett Clothier, head of World Athletics’ independent investigations unit. Clothier agrees that the moment a positive test is returned, the case is reported and a temporary suspension is imposed. “Yes, a provisional suspension is mandatory after […]
Sport Integrity Australia, the anti-doping watchdog, has backed American USADA’s call for an independent review of the WADA decision to let 23 Chinese swimmers go free after they tested positive for a banned substance in a scandal now overshadowing the […]
After taking in his result on the scoreboard at Olympic trials in London in early April and soaking up the Paris 2024 ticket he’d stamped in 57.9, Adam Peaty looked heavenward, sent a prayer and gave thanks to … To […]
It’s something of a miracle that Adam Peaty is heading back to the Olympics for a shot at another slice of pioneering in the pool this summer in Paris. Peaty’s recovery from a mental and physical breakdown after a second […]
The United States Anti-Doping Agency – USADA – issued an urgent call to “governments and sport leaders to step up and immediately undertake action to ensure that real independence, oversight, and accountability” are introduced to the World Anti-Doping Agency – […]
WADA held a online media conference yesterday to offer its fullest response to the storm of criticism over revelations that no action was taken in the cases of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a powerful heart and energy […]
The China Files – Part 2 – SOS Analysis Of A Crisis WADA is being urged to get a grip on after it set precedent by allowing an alleged mass contamination event to result in no sanction for 23 Chinese […]
The China Files – Part 1 – SOS Analysis Of A Crisis WADA is being urged to get a grip on after it set precedent by allowing an alleged mass contamination event to result in no sanction for 23 Chinese […]
The China Files by ARD – last night, the German television station broadcast its Sportschau program on the new China Doping Crisis in sport coincided with the launch of all four videos, with English subtitles, setting out just why China […]
Sunday Essay and Editorial – Caution: May Contain Nuts … or trimetazidine !? The warning (the nuts one) is on more food packaging the world over than there are Chinese citizens on the planet and yet when it comes to […]
On the way to the Tokyo Olympics, 23 China swimmers tested positive for the same banned substance responsible for Sun Yang‘s first offence but were let off and cleared to race in Tokyo because world governing bodies agreed with an […]
