Recent News - 10 Years On: Back To A Four-Year Ban?

The Osaka Rule which banned drug cheats from competing at the Olympic Games, has been scrapped Read more...

Recent News - WADA Foundation Board presented with new draft Code

The present draft substantially strengthens the sanctions for serious violations, increasing from two years to four years the penalties, for example, for the use of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, masking agents, trafficking and prohibited methods. Read more....

Recent News - Consultation re Sports Anti Doping Rules

DFSNZ is required to make the Sports Anti-Doping Rules (SADR) which involves amending them as necessary. This year it is proposed that there are only two amendments to the Rules which would form the 2013 SADR effective from January 1 2013. Read more...

Recent News - More on doping in tennis debate

The controversy surrounding Lance Armstrong, and the systematic and widespread abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling over the past two decades, has undeniably been one of the biggest sporting scandals in recent years, some would argue of all time. Read more...

Recent News - UCI to set up a doping hotline for riders

The UCI will set up a confidential hotline for riders to contact it about doping issues. The world federation is reaching out to riders in the aftermath of the Lance Armstrong investigation making itself more accessible and responsive to the peloton. Read more...

Recent News - The allure of doping

Though 2012 was an Olympic year and the main focus of both sports fans and antidoping authorities was on the Olympians, many athletes, especially those in sports such as baseball and professional cycling, continued to demonstrate that the lure of performance-enhancing drugs was impossible to resist. Read more...

Recent News - EPO side effects/issues more than a sports problem

This fall, Kathleen Sharp's book Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever, blew the lid off of decades of activities that were questionable at best, illegal and deadly at worst, by the pharmaceutical giants behind the blood-booster EPO. Read more.... 

Recent News - To dope or not to dope, that is the question

Doping scandals have plagued professional sports for as long as I can remember, and in the past decade have come close to dominating sports media at times. Newspapers, sports and health magazines, broadcast news media, online news, and even the occasional front-page story condemn the use of performance enhancing drugs Read more....

Recent News - Age group doping control testing is there to deter doping

Some people make doping by amateurs sound harmless. They say that they don't care if a competitor takes drugs because they race for themselves, for the sake of racing and being part of the fun. However, doping at an amateur level is rarely about that free pair of tires or even about the $100,000 of prizes. Cheating is about the athlete's ego: going up on the podium and receiving social recognition. Read more...

Recent News - What is Blood Doping?

The blood doping scandal involving famous Tour de France cyclist Lance Armstrong has become front page news in the last few weeks. There is a lot of confusion 'circulating' (Sorry. Doctor humor) around the topic of blood doping. Read more...