Unless you are a chemist or an anti-doping official, the chances are that you won’t have heard of ostarine. Neither had Jimmy Wallhead, a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter based in Loughborough, UK. Yet he was sanctioned with a nine month ban after a supplement he had used was...

Ironman-winning triathlete Lauren Barnett is suing Classified Nutrition, alleging that its Neurolytes capsules resulted in a positive test for ostarine, reports the Dallas News. Barnett accepted a six month sanction in February after the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) accepted that her adverse analytical finding (AAF) was due to a...

British weightlifter Sonny Webster has alleged that he was twice offered him a 50% reduction in his ban if he admitted to ‘knowingly’ taking ostarine. The Rio 2016 Olympian outlined how he had been issued with a four year ban by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) after refusing the offer, despite...

Two triathletes have argued that their recent adverse analytical findings (AAFs) for ostarine were due to use of salt tablets, which are commonly used to combat the effects of dehydration. However, incredibly, one triathlete has argued that her ostarine AAF could also have been due to drinks given out...

• Twenty four athletes from 13 countries, competing in eight sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light during the week ended 7 July 2023. The 2021 World Anti-Doping Code included Article 10.8.1, a new provision. It allowed athletes charged with a four year ban to benefit...

Twenty one athletes from ten countries, competing in 17 sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light in the fortnight to 14 April. Cases involved big names such as Boxer Amir Khan, former Light Welterweight World Champion; Footballer Mario Vušković; and two athletes who lost Gold Medals...

Ten athletes from nine countries, competing in nine sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light during the last week. Cases included the stripping of a London 2012 Gold Medal from a hurdler; a 19 year old triple jumper; a Polish international footballer; a deaf judoka and...

Eighteen athletes from 13 countries, competing in ten sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light in the past week. Cases involved confirmation that the British 4x100m team will be stripped of its Tokyo 2020 Silver Medal after CJ Ujah received a 22 month ban; An investigation...

Nine athletes from six counties, competing in seven sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light over the past week. Cases involved a positive test from a Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games winner that could jeopardise relay Golds; an Army Sergeant sanctioned for a substance used to treat...

Just four athletes from four countries, competing in four sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light this week. The major news was that Tandara Caixeta, who plays for Brazil’s volleyball team, has been sanctioned with a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving...

Sixteen athletes from nine countries, competing in eight sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light this week. Cases involved an Ethiopian marathon runner charged with use of Erythropoietin (EPO); four Pakistani weightlifters who refused tests, as well as an additional two who returned an adverse analytical...

Eight athletes from seven countries, competing in seven sports, were involved in anti-doping proceedings that came to light this week. Two athletes from different countries and different sports returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs – or ‘positive tests’) for remarkably similar substances, however due to a new provision of the...

USADA announced today that Jordan Adel, of McKinney, Texas, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a three-year period of ineligibility for an anti-doping rule violation. Adel, 32, tested positive for ibutamoren, ostarine (enobosarm), and LGD-4033 (ligandrol) and its metabolite di-hydroxy-LGD-4033, as the result of an out-of-competition urine...

• The International Testing Agency (ITA), leading an independent anti-doping program for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), asserts an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) against Russian weightlifter Kseniya Kozina for the use of prohibited substances based on data retrieved by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) from the Moscow Laboratory. The...

UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD) logo boasts ‘Protecting Sport’. What if we take this at face value? Could UKAD’s real aim be to protect British sporting bodies rather than its athletes? Its actions around allegations of systemic doping that have plagued British sport for the past decade suggest there may be...