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Anti-doping body hails Yemeni drugs seizure
AFP, Published on 27/11/2025
» PARIS - The seizure of a large amount of performance-enhancing drugs in a raid by Yemeni law enforcement agents is “a landmark moment”, the head of investigations for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has told AFP.
Athlete surveillance warnings cloud China's Winter Olympics
AFP, Published on 20/01/2022
» BEIJING: A growing number of Western nations and cybersecurity groups have issued digital surveillance warnings for next month's Winter Olympics in Beijing, with some advising foreign athletes to leave personal phones and laptops at home.
Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink
AFP, Published on 04/11/2021
» SAO FELIX DO XINGU (BRAZIL) - Something is wrong.
Wada confirms Bangkok Laboratory accreditation reinstated
Sports, Published on 29/08/2021
» The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has approved the reinstatement of the accreditation of the anti-doping laboratory at the National Doping Control Centre in Bangkok in accordance with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL).
WADA lifts Bangkok anti-doping lab's suspension
AFP, Published on 28/08/2021
» The World Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday the lifting of the National Doping Control Centre in Bangkok's suspension, imposed in November 2019 for failing to conform with international lab standards.
ICC probes racist crowd abuse after fans ejected from Sydney Test
AFP, Published on 10/01/2021
» SYDNEY - Cricket chiefs have launched an investigation into allegations of racist abuse of the India team from sections of the crowd in the third Test, as six people were ejected and play halted for nearly 10 minutes Sunday.
Russia handed two-year doping ban in 'catastrophic blow to clean sport'
AFP, Published on 18/12/2020
» LAUSANNE: Sport's highest court on Thursday banned Russia from the international stage for two years, including the Tokyo Olympics next year and 2022 Beijing Winter Games, but the halving of the initial punishment was blasted as "a catastrophic blow to clean athletes and the integrity of sport".
Russia takes four-year doping ban battle to court
AFP, Published on 02/11/2020
» LAUSANNE - Russia will attempt to overturn its four-year ban from international sport this week in the latest chapter of a long-running and controversial saga over state-sanctioned doping.
Piped noise, robots and sex dolls: what happens in stadiums without fans
AFP, Published on 21/05/2020
» HONG KONG: Livening up sport without fans is a challenge for competitions returning after the coronavirus, and organisers have tried several ways to make empty stadiums more appealing.
'Biggest secret' - Taiwan baseball draws foreign fans during sports shutdown
AFP, Published on 07/05/2020
» TAOYUAN (TAIWAN) - Foreign fans starved of baseball are tuning in to Taiwan's often-overlooked league as the island basks in the glow of being one of the few places in the world hosting live sports.