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China’s Sun Yang celebrates after winning the 400m freestyle at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Photo: AFP
2025 National Games

Sun Yang to compete at Chinese Spring National meet, paving way for National Games

Disgraced Olympic and world champion will in Qingdao next week compete for only second time since his four-year drug ban was lifted in 2024.

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Wada extends intelligence and investigations offensive to Oceania, Asia regions

ATP

‘A million miles from doping’: Wada defends Sinner’s 3-month ban

Novak Djokovic

Djokovic says players believe there is favouritism in tennis’ anti-doping system

The Serbian says players feel the process is unfair, and wants system revamped after cases involving No 1 players Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek.

Novak Djokovic said many feel “you can almost affect the outcome [of anti-doping cases] if you are a top player”. Photo: EPA-EFE
Swimming

32 most drug-tested swimmers globally in 2024 were all Chinese, data reveals

Updated figures for last year continue the pattern before the Paris Olympics, when China’s swimmers were targeted for extra testing.

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ATP

Tennis stars want investigation into pros using focus-enhancing ADHD drug

James Allemby, who coaches Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong, says the issue deserves ‘a bigger lens’ than recent doping cases.

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Novak Djokovic

‘Frustrated’: Djokovic calls for doping transparency after Sinner, Swiatek cases

The 24-time grand slam champion says he agrees with Australian Nick Kyrgios, who on Saturday said integrity in the sport was ‘awful’.

Novak Djokovic on the Sky Deck at the Queen’s Wharf Precinct in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday. The Serb is set to play in the Brisbane International. Photo: EPA-EFE
WTA (Women's Tennis Association)

Tennis world No 2 Swiatek says she feared a more negative reaction to doping ban

The Pole, addressing the issue for the first time, not expecting an appeal by Wada, but says ‘I have no influence on what’s going to happen’.

Australian Open

‘Devastated’ Australian tennis star Purcell provisionally suspended for doping

The 26-year-old two-time grand slam doubles champion admits to breaching anti-doping rules relating to the use of a ‘prohibited method’.

Swimming

Pan: Rivals ‘didn’t care’ about Olympic medals, had ‘breakdown’ over China golds

The 20-year-old made history in the Paris pool by winning two golds and a silver, and breaking his own world record.

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Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle has suggested rivals at the Paris Olympics had a ‘breakdown’ when China won gold medals. Photo: AFP
WTA (Women's Tennis Association)

Tennis authorities tried to destroy me with drugs ban, but let Swiatek off: Halep

Romanian questions why she was banned for more than 18 months for her drugs violation while the Polish world No 1 was suspended for 1 month.

Romania’s Simona Halep was provisionally suspended in October 2022 and later banned for four years, a period that was reduced to nine months in March after an appeal. Photo: Reuters
ATP

Alcaraz fights back to beat Sinner in thrilling China Open men’s final

‘I respect you a lot as a player, but even more as a person,’ Spaniard tells Sinner, who has faced scrutiny over positive tests for steroid.

Olympics

Wada did not show ‘favouritism’ to China, but stronger rules needed, report says

Swiss prosecutor Eric Cottier says drug chiefs acted ‘autonomously, independently and professionally’, with ‘no evidence to the contrary’.

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Olympics

World anti-doping chiefs set sights on US college testing as drugs row deepens

Wada says US sends athletes to major competitions without sufficient testing, an accusation officials call ‘deflection’ ahead of China report.

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Witold Banka, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, at a press conference at the Paris Olympics. Photo: EPA-EFE
US Open (tennis)

World No 1 Sinner plays through doping cloud to beat Fritz for first US Open title

The event’s first Italian winner, who was cleared pre tournament of illegal-substance use, ensures US drought at their grand slam continues.

Jannik Sinner, who won the Australian Open in January, is the first man since Guillermo Vilas in 1977 to win his first two grand slam trophies in the same season. Photo: Xinhua
Erling Haaland

That was a dopey thing to do. Norway drug bosses ask to test dead football stars

Among players were record national team scorer Jorgen Juve and Einar Gundersen, who died in 1983 and 1962, respectively

China’s Communist Party

Report outlines Xi’s push for fair competition, more ‘just’ global sports order

Calling China ‘an important force for change’, it marks the first time Xi Jinping Thought on sport has been laid out.

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Video | China’s Sun Yang wins gold after 4-year suspension

Chinese swimming star Sun Yang wins first gold medal after 4-year suspension
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Swimming

China’s Sun Yang wins 400m title hours after giving tearful poolside interview

Chinese social media users rush to support disgraced Olympian after first competitive race since 4-year drugs ban ended.

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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

China urges no accidental doping slip-ups at Paralympics after focus on swimmers

Leading sports official calls for strong management of food, drugs and nutritional supplements to prevent ‘accidental consumption incidents’.

ATP

Tennis world No 1 Sinner cleared of wrongdoing after failed drug tests, ITIA says

The tribunal accepted the Italian’s explanation the ‘less than a billionth of a gram’ of the anabolic agent clostebol entered his system from his physio through massages.

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Italian Jannik Sinner, who won the recent Cincinnati Open, tested positive during a tournament in Indian Wells in March. Photo: dpa
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Integrity chiefs to appeal decision to clear US Olympian over failed drugs test

Sprinter Erriyon Knighton, who reached the 200m final in Paris, was allowed to compete by his country’s drugs bosses after blaming contaminated meat.

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Erriyon Knighton (left), Noah Lyles and Alexander Ogando (right) compete in the men’s 200m final at the Paris Olympics. Photo: AFP
Podcasts

Missing the Olympics already? 6 sports podcasts to keep the torch alight

Already missing the Paris Olympics? Take solace in this collection of sports-related shows that’ll entertain everyone from mega marathoners to armchair umpires

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Editorial | Eliminate doping but keep politics out of international sports

Unfair allegations against Chinese swimmers at the Paris Games show not only disrespect for the country but the entire Olympic movement, too.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

World, US anti-doping bodies clash over use of ‘undercover athletes’ to nab cheats

US argue in one case such assistance had provided intelligence to a US federal law enforcement investigation into a human and drug trafficking scheme.

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Usada CEO Travis Tygart says letting drug cheats compete so they could act as undercover informants is “an effective way” to tackle bigger problems. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

China urges US to ensure Olympic athletes treated fairly at future Games

Chinese sports official calls for end to ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ as US prepares for Los Angeles 2028 and 2034 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

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Gene Sykes, president of the US Olympic and Paralympic committee, presents Salt Lake City’s bid to host the 2034 Winter Games during a meeting in Paris on July 24. Photo: AP
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Analysis | Doping, double standards and how TUEs muddy the waters of China row with the US

The accusations flung at China’s swimmers in Paris form part of a larger row between the world’s two superpowers.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

US legend Phelps refuses to ‘point finger’ at Chinese Olympics star Pan Zhanle

Swimming star hails Olympic 100m sprint champion Noah Lyles for revealing mental health struggle, ‘he was vulnerable at his happiest moment’.

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