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Are Olympic Athletes Using GLP-1s?

An anti-doping group is keeping a close eye on the use of these obesity and diabetes drugs in elite athletes. Here’s why.
The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.
Tasso and InnoVero developed a less-invasive anti-doping blood test being used broadly at the Olympics for the first time.
One in five athletes sampled at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham confessed to doping in the previous 12 months, according to an anonymous anti-doping survey. Twenty-one per cent of more than ...
Many Olympic athletes take advantage of a loophole to the anti-doping rules that ban the use of performance enhancing drugs through a practice known as “legal doping,” or taking legal prescription ...
A drug designed to help cancer patients rebuild wasting muscles has become one of the most contentious substances in elite ...
Lizzy Banks, the former cyclist, has called for a major overhaul of the global anti-doping system following the “psychological torture” of having a two-year ban upheld despite previously being cleared ...
On July 30, the New York Times reported that two Chinese swimmers, one of whom is competing at the Paris Olympics, tested positive for an anabolic steroid, a banned performance enhancing substance, in ...
The Korea Anti-Doping Committee (hereinafter referred to as KADA) has released 'Korean Medicines Anti-Doping Guidelines' on the KADA website. The guidelines, which were created to prevent ...
For cycling — probably the most scrutinised sport in the world given its history — the ghosts of the past never truly depart ...