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The Japanese figure skaters who competed in the team event at the Beijing Olympics pose for a photo during a ceremony at the Paris Games on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Figure skating
Aug 8, 2024
Japan figure skaters finally get medals two years after team event at Beijing Olympics
Japan earned silver in the team competition in Beijing.
China's Pan Zhanle celebrates after winning Olympic gold and breaking a world record in the men's 100-meter freestyle final on July 31.
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2024
China shrugs off doping controversy to win 12 Olympic swimming medals
The team's haul — two gold, three silver and seven bronze — was an improvement on a Tokyo collection of nine.
Canadian teen Summer McIntosh swims to Olympic gold in the women's 200-meter butterfly event on Thursday in Paris.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 2, 2024
Summer storm hits Paris as McIntosh claims second swimming gold
Three days after a dominant win in the 400-meter individual medley, the 17-year-old delivered another clinical swim that oozed with teenage exuberance.
Gold medalist Pan Zhanle of China celebrates on the podium after winning the men's 100-meter freestyle event at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 1, 2024
Chinese swim fans hit back at doping claims as Pan takes gold
Pan burnished his reputation in his home country with a world-record time of 46.40 seconds, beating the previous fastest time of 46.80 he had set in February.
China's Pan Zhanle reacts after winning gold in the men's 100-meter freestyle event at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 1, 2024
China's Pan unaffected by doping storm after 'perfect' world record
The 19-year-old's incredible swim of 46.40 seconds at La Defense Arena sliced 0.40 seconds off his previous world record.
World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka holds a news conference in Paris on July 25. WADA and the entire global anti-doping system have been under intensifying scrutiny in recent months.
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2024
Anti-doping agency acknowledges concern over use of tainted food as excuse
The global anti-doping regulator disclosed Tuesday that it is investigating why athletes in China and other countries who are testing positive for banned drugs are escaping discipline through claims that they have unwittingly ingested the performance-enhancing substances through food.
La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, which will host the Olympic swimming competition starting Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2024
China doping row set to raise tension at Paris pool
Some of the world's best in the sport have criticized anti-doping authorities and raised concerns about the competition's integrity.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has been under fire from U.S. officials over the handling of a case involving Chinese swimmers in the months before the Tokyo Games.
OLYMPICS
Jul 25, 2024
WADA to put U.S. anti-doping agency under compliance review
WADA is taking the step as a result of a dispute with the USADA over its handling of a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers.
The former chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, speaks during a news conference in Munich in 2016.
OLYMPICS
Jul 17, 2024
U.S. doping probe puts Olympic hosting at risk, former WADA chief says
Any country wanting to stage an international sporting event must be compliant with the anti-doping code and a U.S. probe may violate those rules, Dick Pound said.
Paris La Defense Arena will host swimming events during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jul 16, 2024
World Aquatics to strengthen testing of Chinese swimmers at Games
The first aquatics events of the Paris Games are set to take place on July 27.
World Anti-Doping Age President Witold Banka speaks during an event in Lausanne, Switzerland, in March 2023.
OLYMPICS
Jul 10, 2024
Independent probe clears WADA of favoritism in Chinese swimmers case
WADA President Witold Banka was in fighting form after the executive board had met and endorsed the report that cleared his agency.
During the Olympics, only medalists are automatically tested, but the International Testing Agency wants to find ways to target potential dopers before the end of an event.
OLYMPICS
Jul 4, 2024
Anti-doping testing agency sharpens its tools for Paris Olympics
Benjamin Cohen, director general of the ITA, said potential tools as its disposal included biological and performance passports as well as a mountain of other data.
Michael Brinegar in action at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha on Feb. 8
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jun 25, 2024
Former U.S. Olympian Brinegar hit with four-year doping ban
American swimmer Michael Brinegar, who competed in the 800 and 1,500 meters events at the Tokyo Olympics, has been handed a four-year suspension for blood doping, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Monday.
Zhang Yufei during the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in September of last year
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jun 19, 2024
Eleven swimmers in doping scandal named to Chinese Olympic team
WADA's decision not to punish the swimmers has provoked intense criticism, particularly from the United States.
Members of the Australian swimming team for the 2024 Paris Olympics pose for a group photo after the Australian Swimming Trials in Brisbane on Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Jun 17, 2024
Australia coach calls worrying about Chinese doping scandal 'a waste of energy'
Rohan Taylor said it was not worth wasting time worrying about something they had no control over.
Wang Shun of China races to gold in the final of the men's 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jun 15, 2024
Doping regulator knew of previous positive tests by Chinese swimmers
Three Chinese swimmers who failed drug tests before the 2021 Olympics had tested positive for a powerful steroid several years earlier.
Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto celebrates after finishing third in the men's 10,000 meter final at the 2019 IAAF Athletics World Championships in Doha on Oct. 6, 2019.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Jun 6, 2024
Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto gets six-year ban and loses world record over doping
Kipruto was banned until May 10, 2029.
Zhang Yufei was among the 23 Chinese swimmer who tested positive for a banned substance months before the Tokyo Olympics.
OLYMPICS
May 16, 2024
World Anti-Doping Agency combating trust issues ahead of Paris Olympics
WADA is facing a allegations it helped cover up the positive tests of elite Chinese swimmers before the Tokyo Olympics.
Ryan Garcia, seen fighting Romero Duno in Nov. 2019, has denied taking a performance-enhancing substance before his victory over Devin Haney in New York in March.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
May 2, 2024
Ryan Garcia denies taking banned substance before Haney fight
ESPN reported on Wednesday that Garcia had tested positive for ostarine on the day before and day of the fight.
A World Anti-Doping Agency logo is seen at the WADA Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 12, 2024.
MORE SPORTS
May 2, 2024
USADA slams WADA for making 'half-truths' in China doping case
WADA has been under fire since last month, when the New York Times reported 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine before the Tokyo Games.

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