Erythropoietin was part of Lance Armstrong's doping regimen, which led to one of the most dramatic falls from grace in sporting history. The drug is part of a practice called blood doping.

Tokyo Olympic race walking silver medalist Koki Ikeda lodged an appeal Friday to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over his ...

M Saugy Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses, Institute of Legal Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland; martial.saugy{at}chuv.ch Objective and method: To outline the direct and indirect approaches in the ...

Austrian investigators have launched an inquiry that could ensnare dozens of elite athletes in summer and winter Olympic sports in a major blood doping scandal. The inquiry was prompted by a ...

Arguably, these cases represent only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and exposed the insufficiencies of the current antidoping system. During the 1990s, ‘blood doping’ in the form of rHuEPO use and/or blood ...

This reduces heart rate, blood pressure and even anxiety and helps ... depression and impotence. Doping in sport means to take illegal or performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids.

American Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar has been handed a four-year ban for blood doping. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) said Brinegar, 24, had irregularities between July to ...

With the organization's acting chief executive stressing the need to be proactive. the British Horseracing Authority is to ...