The Galway Hurdle, one of the feature events of this week’s Galway Festival, was embroiled in controversy yesterday after Petrol Head, who had been backed from 16-1 to 5-1 clear favourite for the €270,000 (£228,000) handicap, was scratched…
“I thought I could be dead last because he was so far ahead of me,” Kyle Chalmers confessed soon after the 100m freestyle final. Australian swimmers have been all the rage recently, especially with Ariarne Titmus and Kaylee McKeown…
With cricket set to return to the the Olympics in 2028 Los Angeles, Indian cricketers will, like athletes from any other Olympic discipline, be monitored by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) and they need to be fully aware of the anti…
Chinese sports fans on Thursday hailed their country’s first swimming gold of the Paris Olympics and hit back at doping allegations after China’s Pan Zhanle roared to a record-breaking victory in the men’s 100-meter freestyle. Pan, 19,…
Nigerian boxer Cynthia Ogunsemilore has been expelled from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Village due to a positive doping test. The Nigeria Olympic Committee confirmed that Ogunsemilore was unable to clear her name after testing positive…
“The tests were done under all the regulations. I don’t think it influenced my performance,” said Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle after breaking his own world record in the men’s 100m freestyle with a winning time of 46.40 seconds at the 2024…
“This was a magical moment, really magical,” said China’s Pan Zhanle after setting a new world record in February. Pan, a top contender at the Paris Olympics, now faces doping allegations following a positive test. The news has shaken the…
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.
PARIS >> China’s Pan Zhanle hailed a perfect world record swim that delivered the Olympic 100 metres freestyle gold today and said he was unaffected by a doping storm that had engulfed his swim team in Paris.
Chinese sports fans on Thursday hailed their country's first swimming gold of the Paris Olympics and hit back at doping allegations after Pan Zhanle roared to a record-breaking victory in the men's 100-metre freestyle.- 'Really beneath us'…
By Simone McCarthy and Andrew McNicol, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Within 72 hours of the start of the Paris Olympics, star Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei had already climbed the champions’ podium twice. The former gold medalist won two bronzes as…
Track and field’s antidoping arm, the Athletics Integrity Unit, has announced a string of cases in recent months. Is that the sign of a problem, or proof that its approach is working?