Rome :: Italy
| about 14 hours ago
Italian cyclist Emanuele Sella has been banned for one year for doping. Sella, the top climber in this year's Giro d'Italia, tested positive in July for a new version of the blood booster EPO in an out-of-competion control. He admitted to doping in a...
Tags: doping, competition, Emanuele Sella
Mumbai :: India
| 24 days ago
Matt Hunter from the Thunderbirds National Karate Team, training out of the Karate Training Centers won four 1st places! Matt won the 8/9 yr old intermediate Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons, Creative Forms and Sparring divisions...To win is great,...
Tags: competition, india, Matt Hunter
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia
| 26 days ago
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) is stepping up an ambitious programme to combat doping in sports and stop the scourge from escalating in the region, a top official said Wednesday. Mani Jegathesan, chairman of the medical committee of the OCA, said Asian...
Tags: doping, sports, competition, athlete, Asian, U.S
Vienna :: Austria
| about 1 month ago
Pumper, a bronze medallist at the 2005 European indoor championships over 3,000m, was suspended from competition in April after returning a second positive test for banned substances. Andreas Schwab said the 38-year-old middle distance runners ban would...
Tags: doping, athlete, competition, Lisa Huetthaler, Susanne Pumper
Karāchi :: Pakistan
| about 1 month ago
Secretary Pakistan Wrestling Federation, Chaudhry Muhammad Asghar, has said that Pakistan has a fair chance to win a medal in the 1st Asian Beach Games wrestling competition, which begins here today (Friday) with 11 countries taking part in it. We are...
Tags: pakistan, competition, gold, bronze, olympics, Pakistan Wrestling Federation, china, beijing, gold medal, asian beach
Karāchi :: Pakistan
| about 1 month ago
Dhaka, Oct 21 (bdnews24.com) The Bangladesh National Kabaddi team bagged bronze medal in the inaugural Asian Beach Games beating hosts Indonesia 57-34 points in Bali on Tuesday. Bangladesh dominated the first half 26-20 in their last group match. Bangladesh...
Tags: gold medal, bronze, gold, silver, competition, Bangladesh National Kabaddi, Beach Kabaddi, Pakistan, Bali, Thailand
Edmonton :: Canada
| about 1 month ago
Chris Tomkee, 23, was one of the gold winners and competed in category B, consisting of a four-entree plate, restaurant platter for two, and three-course luncheon menu. Among his creations were cured salmon appetizers and a lobster dish with scallop mousse...
Tags: olympics, olympic, competition, world, gold, best, medals, men, medal, show
Lausanne :: Switzerland
| about 1 month ago
THE International Olympic Committee has launched an investigation into how hundreds of drug tests taken at the Beijing Games have gone missing. The World Anti-Doping Agency has requested a formal response from the IOC to look at the issues raised in a...
Tags: olympics, doping, athlete, competition, sports, IOC, drug test, doping agency, beijing games, Beijing
Pune :: India
| about 1 month ago
Indian shooters continued to dazzle at the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) with Hyderabad's Darius Kynan Chenai bagging a gold in the boys trap event and Ankush Bharadwaj clinching his second medal, a bronze, at Balewadi here on Tuesday. Darius had a nervous...
Tags: competition, gold medal, Commonwealth Youth Games, gold
Beijing :: China
| about 1 month ago
More than 2,500 "mind sportsmen" from some 140 nations and regions are competing for 36 gold medals in five major games and 36 small events. Competition events include bridge, draughts (checkers), chess, go and xiangqi (Chinese chess)...The overall winner...
Tags: gold medal, chess, sports, competition, men, medals, record, olympics, gold medals
