MONACO (AP) — Former Tokyo Marathon runner-up Tsehay Gemechu was banned for four years because of suspected blood doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Thursday. The 25-year-old Ethiopian also was ...

A new undetectable doping trick that would help athletes to move faster for longer is being investigated by authorities. Experiments performed on mice by Prof James McCully of Harvard Medical School ...

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Performance enhancers, secret syringes, and shattered reputations—sports history has seen its fair share of scandal. When athletes cross the line in search of an edge, the fallout ripples across ...

It is the position of the American College of Sports Medicine that any blood doping procedure used in an attempt to improve athletic performance is unethical, unfair, and exposes the athlete to ...

If you could patent and sell the idea of holding your breath before exercise to boost performance, it would be a bestseller. Not because it works, necessarily—the jury is still out on that. But ...

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