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1.4 billion risk disease from lack of exercise: WHO
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» PARIS - More than 1.4 billion adults are putting themselves at heightened risk of deadly diseases by not getting enough exercise, doctors are warning, with global activity levels virtually unchanged in nearly two decades.
WADA doping body made 'mistakes' with meldonium ban - Murray
AFP, Published on 04/10/2016
» BEIJING - British tennis star Andy Murray said Tuesday that the World Anti-Doping Agency made "mistakes" over how it handled the ban on the drug meldonium, allowing athletes to escape suspensions.
Legends of the Olympic Games - 1984 to 2012
AFP, Published on 01/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The 31st Summer Olympics starts on August 5 in Rio de Janeiro. Here is AFP Sport's fourth and final set of five legends of the Games:
Lack of exercise runs up $67.5 bn annual health tab: study
AFP, Published on 28/07/2016
» PARIS - Health problems caused by a lack of daily physical exercise cost the world some $67.5 billion (61 billion euros) in 2013 -- more than many countries' GDP, researchers said Thursday.
WADA says athletes could escape meldonium ban
AFP, Published on 14/04/2016
» MONTREAL - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said athletes could escape a ban for taking meldonium because it does not know for sure how long it takes the substance to leave the body.
Russian athletics hit by first meldonium cases
AFP, Published on 21/03/2016
» MOSCOW - Russia on Monday announced four doping failures for meldonium in athletics as the country battles to be reinstated in time for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Sharapova lawyer confident of ban leniency - report
AFP, Published on 10/03/2016
» LONDON - Maria Sharapova's lawyer is confident he can secure a lenient punishment for the Russian superstar who stunned international sport with her drug test failure confession.
East Germany's doping victims set to get 10.5 mn euros of aid
AFP, Published on 10/03/2016
» BERLIN - Angela Merkel's government on Wednesday took a step towards atoning for East Germany's murky past by approving 10.5 million euros ($11.5m) of aid for victims of the Communist state's doping programme.
490 possible meldonium cases at Baku Games: research
AFP, Published on 09/03/2016
» LONDON - Some 490 athletes, including 13 medallists, may have taken meldonium -- the drug responsible for tennis star Maria Sharapova's failed dope test -- at last year's European Games in Baku, according to research published on Wednesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Kremlin calls Sharapova's doping failure an isolated case
AFP, Published on 09/03/2016
» MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Wednesday expressed regret over Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova's positive test for a banned drug at the Australian Open but insisted it was an isolated case.