case of doping

The team had fallen victim to a massive case of doping.

There has also been a number of cases of doping.

A major case of doping was found in Bodybuilding where ten athletes were caught using performance enhancing drugs.

"With the exception of Mitchell," he said, "these are not yet cases of doping, but simply positive results.

This was the first case of doping based on circumstantial evidence alone; no forbidden substances were ever found during her repeated tests.

After that, if their levels dramatically change, Pound said, it could be a prima facie case of doping.

"There is sufficient expertise, review and process prior to a case being charged to ensure that only cases of doping move forward," Tygart said.

Proven cases of doping in sporting competitions have diminished the reputation of many sports in the eyes of the public.

'It is stressed that this is the only confirmed case of doping into which an inquiry is being conducted at the moment by the Jockey Club.'

We are all aware that the US Olympic Committee covered up cases of doping involving its competitors, especially its athletes, and that it continued to do so until quite recently.

Scarponi was temporarily suspended by his team in November 2012 after he admitted performing tests with Michele Ferrari, a doctor whose name has been linked to numerous cases of doping in cycling.

On the other hand, we should not forget that, these days, an increasing number of tests are being done, many of them outside competitions, and this also means that, logically, more cases of doping are being discovered.

Yet the only reason why so many cases of doping were detected at the last Olympic Games was that the International Olympic Committee, under the leadership of its new President, Jacques Rogge, finally took determined action to combat doping.

Arguably the most high-profile case of doping in world football is the one of Diego Maradona at the 1994 World Cup in the USA, who was immediately suspended and later sanctioned for 18 months for intake of ephedrine.

Together, with Parliament, we have already come a long way in terms of effectiveness and I believe that the Athens games were a fine example of this, since, during those games, more cases of doping were detected than during all the previous games put together.

I would, therefore, call on the Commission to intensify its research into doping substances, detection methods and the impact of using doping substances on health, with a view to reducing cases of doping and protecting our sportspeople from the danger it poses to their moral and physical well-being.

Without doubt this is one of Bulgaria's highest priority sports with around 1,000 gold medals in different competitions, although cases of doping have occurred among Bulgarian weightlifters, which led to the expulsion of the entire Bulgarian team from the 2000 Summer Olympics, and their voluntary withdrawal from the 1988 Summer Olympics.