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Chemistry World
February 8, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
To catch a cheating athlete As the athletes take center stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition.   |
Reason
April 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Testing Your Strength The World Anti-Doping Agency is developing tests for a form of cheating that doesn't exist yet. The agency banned gene doping, the alteration of genes to enhance athletic performance. |
Chemistry World
January 23, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Outwitting the doping cheats of the future Biochemists at the German Sport University in Cologne have developed an anti-doping test for a drug candidate in early development that may counteract muscle fatigue and potentially enhance athletic performance. |
Chemistry World
June 22, 2006 |
Ethicist Approves Performance Enhancing Drugs A leading ethicist has questioned the value of banning some of the sports drugs listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. It's a view rejected strenuously by former Olympian Linford Christie, who tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in 1999. |
Outside
July 2005
Brian Alexander |
The Awful Truth About Drugs in Sports Drug-testing expert Don Catlin is the doping detective who helped break the BALCO scandal wide open- and the man who's about to launch a radical new campaign to finally solve the problem of drugs in sports. |
Wired
January 2007
Mark McClusky |
The Righteous Fury of Dick Pound As head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this man is on a crusade to rid elite sports of performance-enhancing drugs. And he's making a few enemies along the way. |
Outside
January 2010
Brian Alexander |
Good Cop, Bad Cop A growing number of critics contend that WADA, the international agency that oversees drug testing in sports, has become overzealous and arrogant, sometimes trampling the civil liberties of athletes in the process. |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
New drug test misses Olympic deadline A biomarker-based test has been developed to detect athletes that have used banned drugs long after the compounds themselves become undetectable - but it won't be approved in time for the Beijing Olympics. |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Can Drug-Busters Beat New Steroids? Scientists enlisted by anti-doping agencies are trying to stay a step ahead of the cheaters as the Athens Olympics approach. |
AskMen.com
Andrew Tilin |
Doping And The Tour de France Maybe Lance Armstrong should tell the truth about his past. Or maybe people should learn a bit about the history of doping and lay off Lance. |
Outside
June 2004
Heil & Bradley |
Spinning in Their Graves The Tour's new scandal: Elite cyclists are mysteriously dropping dead. |
AskMen.com
October 21, 2015
Matt Chappell |
Doping In Sport 2015 Nearly three years on from the scandal that was the Lance Armstrong confession, the journalist that spent 13 years of his life trying to bring him down, David Walsh, still has his eye on the ball. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2007
Jessica Ebert |
How to Catch an Insulin-Doping Athlete A growing number of athletes reportedly take insulin to boost their performance illegally, but controlling insulin abuse has gone largely unchecked. Now, a urine test designed by German and Belgian scientists could be set to change all that. |
Outside
November 2003
Stuart Stevens |
Drug Test Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist out to try them and report back. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 18, 2013
Michael Blanding |
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal Clayton S. Rose's recent case study looks at the behavior of teammates who were swept up in Lance Armstrong's cheating scandal. When do followers need to break away from their leader? |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2012
Hayley Birch |
Drive towards detecting drugs at the roadside The UK government is setting up an advisory panel that will assess the feasibility of roadside testing for drug driving, similar to testing for drunk driving. |
AskMen.com
October 4, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Olympic Drug Scandals Ah, the beautiful Olympic games: great athleticism, camaraderie and professionalism. But come every four years, the not-so-glamorous drugs also make their unwanted appearance... |
Outside
July 2008
Michael Hall |
There Will Be Blood. Clean Blood. Team Slipstream thinks it can save cycling with a drug-testing program unlike anything else in sports. I wasn't so sure -- until I wound up living with their team captain at the Tour of California. Pass the remote. |
Sports Central
April 17, 2009
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Lance Armstrong: Wee, Monsieur Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong believes French doping officials may ban him from the 2009 Tour because of disagreements over a recent drug test. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2012 |
Chemistry and the Olympics Emma Davies looks into the vital role chemistry will play during the Olympic and Paralympic games |
Sports Illustrated
May 25, 2000
Tim Layden |
An artificial edge? Athletes try anything in quest to be the best |
Sports Illustrated
August 3, 2000 |
IOC to target EPO dopers ...the International Olympic Committee will conduct tests for the cutting-edge performance enhancer erythropoietin... |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Watching Wall Street's Dopers The cheating in athletic competition is not so different from the cheating on Wall Street. Investors must learn to recognize two of the most common ways businesses dope their numbers. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Victor Conte Interview We caught up with Victor Conte, possibly the most infamous non-athlete associated with steroids, to find out if the next generation of athletes are destined to raise the bar by juicing, just as snowboarders and tennis players do by continuously getting improved equipment? |
Outside
December 2005
Joe Lindsey |
J'Accuse Over the coming months Lance Armstrong will confront his accusers in courtrooms and legal proceedings in the U.S., England, and France. |
Chemistry World
June 8, 2015
Maria Burke |
Warnings that proposed UK blanket ban on 'legal highs' casts net too wide Some legal experts and scientists are warning that a proposed blanket ban on so-called 'legal highs' won't tackle the problem and may well hold back research into areas such as neuroscience. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Pro Video Gamers Will Now Be Subject To Drug Tests The Electronic Sports League announced that it will start screening professional video game players for performance-enhancing drugs at a competition this August. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Geoff Williams |
Urine the Money One athlete's waste is this company's treasure. |
Sports Central
February 19, 2012
Diane M. Grassi |
Looks Like Lance, Inc. Too Big to Fail For nearly a two-year period, the U.S. Department of Justice invested untold millions of dollars, at taxpayer expense, for various investigations pertinent to Lance Armstrong. |
Sports Central
February 5, 2009
Mert Ertunga |
Nadal Blasts New Anti-Doping Rules The new code from the World Anti-Doping Agency imposed on professional athletes identified by their international federations is precisely what popular athlete Rafael Rafa called it: a disgrace! |
Wired
September 2000
Andrew Tilin |
Ready, Set, Mutate! International jock police should forget about controlling technology's impact on sports. It's the 21st century - let the augmentations begin. We've compiled a cutting-edge athlete's duffel of techno-enhanced clothing, equipment, and drugs that will help the world's athletes mine gold... |
