How The NRK Used the Anti-Doping Database to highlight athletes with a doping past

July 22, 2024

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.

NRK approached the Anti-Doping Database in July 2024 to get help to find out who had violated an anti-doping rule among the Olympic Games participants in Paris.

Thanks to the Bulk Search feature in the Anti-Doping Database and lists of participants from the International Olympic Committee, it was possible for us to get a list of names. 

In total more than 100 of the over 10.000 athletes participating in the Olympic Games in Paris has a history of breaching the anti-doping rules. 

Their article presents names of some interesting athletes and also infographic showing which countries has the most anti-doping rule violators.

You can read the article on NRK here 

Prior to the Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, the New York Times and the Washington Post created similar articles:

Read the NYT article here

And the Washingon Post article here

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