Out-of-competition test a breach of code: WADA

Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday defended his ministry's decision to instruct the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to conduct an out-of-competition dope test on Beijing Olympics bronze medallist Vijender Singh, insisting that the ...

To bring more accountability into equestrian sports, the government decides to acquire dope testing facility in the country for horses. The government has decided to clean the Augean stables. Well, quite literally. To bring more accountability into ...

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has initiated dope testing at the domestic level beginning with the Vijay Hazare Trophy that concluded at Visakhapatnam on Sunday. The BCCI has been conducting the dope tests in the Indian Premier League and ...

A well-intentioned schools sport drug testing programme, due to have started already, to try to reduce pupil's abuse of performance-enhancing substances, has been all but scuppered by the South African Schools Act. The act gives 10 drug testing ...

By John Kwoba NAIROBI, May 19 (Xinhua) -- More often than not athletics greats go on too long, take one stride too many, one jump more than is good for them. This is all in search for perfection and conquering their opponents. Of course none likes ...

New Delhi: India's sporting icon, 2004 Athens Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has a dark secret, a secret that has been hidden for nine years. It is a secret that will shake the very foundations of Indian sport. Rathore, whose ...

The National Drug-Related Deaths Database (NDRDD) last week released new figures that show that 330 children have lost a parent or a parental figure to a drug related death in 2011 compared to 283 the previous year, a rise of nearly 20%. The NDRDD ...

After Olympic boxer Vijender Singh failed to comply with the court orders of appearing at the Central Forensic science Laboratory (CFSL) here on Tuesday for submitting his hair sample in the heroin case, police indicated that arrest warrants were ...

The battle is only half won for after the clean chit from the sports ministry and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). Vijender's family and friends consider Tuesday's development as a victory for the ace boxer and hope he will soon return to ...