Finnish Center for Integrity in Sport, is reporting that Harri Syväsalmi at the age of 71. The Finnish sport leader was one of the founders of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He also held the position as General Secretary from 1999 until 2003.
Michael Phelps, the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals, said to American news that he wants anyone caught doping to be suspended for life. That has been suggested and even tried a few times and it unlikely it will ever happen.
The Olympic Summer Games is the biggest sport event. And some are willing to take short cuts – and chances – to win medals. Of the last six Games, more than 200 athletes has been sanctioned for an anti-doping rule violation.
The sport of athletics is plagued by the persistent issue of doping. Topping the list of substances that has sidelined athletes is the steroid Stanozolol.
On this page we will maintain a list of athletes who has tested positive in relation to the Olympic Summer Games in Paris in 2024
The Afghanistan judoka Mohammad Samim Faizad have tested positive for the steroid Stanozolol. He is the third athlete to test positive at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris in 2024.
At Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 Randolph Ross won a gold medal on the 4x400 relay. One year later he received a three-year ban for violating the whereabout rule.
In the Anti-Doping Database, we have registered more than 13.000 athletes who has been banned after violating an Anti-Doping rule. Only 208 are Chinese athletes.
Chinese swimmers are being target tested out-of-competition prior to the Olympic Games in Paris starts. The swimmers has been tested so much that the team has reacted over the increased testing before the Paris Olympics.
The Norwegian Broadcaster NRK has published an article on athletes with a doping past participating in the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. They used the Anti-Doping Database to get the number of historic statistics and names of athletes.