US wants to suspend WADA funding by law A bill intensifies the dispute between the USA and the World Anti-Doping Agency. Money is to be given only after an "independent audit" by WADA. The situation could become a test of strength for world...

Clause ensuring that future US funding for WADA is dependent on an "independent audit" of all their activities being carried out is now signed into law by Trump. ARD story from yesterday... www.sportschau.de/investigativ...

"Operation Puncture": WADA hunts whistleblowers in China case A World Anti-Doping Agency investigation is seeking to expose whistleblowers who passed on information about suspected doping cases in China to ARD. Human rights organisations are strongly criticising...

Latest ARD Doping Editorial Team story: WADA hunts whistleblowers in China case. On the cryptically named ongoing "Operation Puncture" being prioritised by their investigations team www.sportschau.de/wada-hunts-w...

Interesting story. Ser Miang Ng is chair of both
WADA (since 2020) and IOC (since 2014) Finance Committees. Will he be temporarily suspended from both while investigations take place?

Reminder of why whereabouts violations banned. WhatsApp messages from sprinter Blessing Okagbare showing she deliberately missed a drugs test -and took one whereabouts violation hit - as worried she may otherwise test positive as drugs still in system. She then tried to argue she didn't hear testers

Whistleblowers in fear : Stepanovs’ cry for help. Forgotten and facing an uncertain future Their revelations about state-sponsored doping in Russia shocked the sporting world in 2014. Today, Yuliya Stepanova and Vitaly Stepanov are still fighting for permanent residency in United States. Ou...

Latest ARD report: "Stepanovs’ cry for help. Forgotten and facing an uncertain future". Tough emotional story about situation unchanged for over a decade www.sportschau.de/stepanovs-cr...

Beyond the Athlete: The Hidden Blame in Running’s Drug Crisis ADDENDUM: 17 July 2025 Today, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) provisionally suspended marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich due to a doping violation. Ms. Chepngetich…

"Only when a PED scandal becomes large enough to affect the retail sales of the shoe companies or negatively impact title sponsorship PR will anything get done, says one long-time sport insider with experience in dealing with all entities involved." tonireavis.com/2025/07/17/b...

Révélations de liens entre un soigneur d'Ineos Grenadiers et un médecin impliqué dans l'affaire de dopage Aderlass L'Irish Independent a publié un article qui révèle la relation en 2012 entre David Rozman, soigneur de Sky devenu Ineos Grenadiers, et Mark Schmidt, docteur impliqué dans l'affaire Aderlass.

"Revelations of links between an Ineos Grenadiers trainer and a doctor involved in the Aderlass doping case." Another follow-up to ARD documentary www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur...

Paul Kimmage: Revealing the links between the Team Sky masseur and a convicted doping doctor at the Tour de France It was late last Sunday evening when Sebastian Krause arrived in Lille. He had taken a flight from Munich, and a train from Paris and left first thing the next morning in a car to Dunkirk.

Article by Paul Kimmage in which he names the Team Sky/Ineos soigneur linked to convicted doping doctor Mark Schmidt following ARD documentary. He is still working at Tour de France this year for Ineos...who are refusing to comment www.independent.ie/sport/other-...

"Doping Top Secret: In the Slipstream" - "Medico Tehna": Slovenian company again under doping spotlight In the 2010s, a medical technology company in Ljubljana was a point of contact for Mark S., the Erfurt blood doping doctor. The ARD documentary "In the Slipstream" shows: "Medico Tehna" is still open ...

And investigation here on "Medico Tehna": a Slovenian company still under the spotlight in connection with blood doping allegations. 4/ www.sportschau.de/doping/medic...

"Doping Top Secret: In the Slipstream" - Aicar and "extraterrestrials": ARD documentary reignites doping discussion Cycling insiders have spent years insisting that professional cycling has learned the lessons of its dark past. New research from the ARD doping editorial team concludes differently.

"Aicar and "extraterrestrials": ARD documentary reignites doping discussion". Article here on the discussion about doping today in pro cycling and why times are quicker than ever 3/ www.sportschau.de/doping/aicar...

The individual cannot be named for legal reasons relating to expiry of statute of limitations but stands accused of being a key figure in the doping ring orchestrated by Erfurt doctor "Mark S"... 2/

"Doping Top Secret: In the slipstream" - German blood doping ring accomplice a major figure in cycling ARD can reveal that numerous members or customers of the dismantled Erfurt blood doping network have escaped punishment. An accomplice of doping doctor Mark S. has been working undisturbed for years a...

New ARD Doping Editorial film: "In the Slipstream": German blood doping Operation Aderlass ring accomplice a major figure in cycling - working with Team Ineos. Good work with colleagues including @hajoseppelt.bsky.social 1/ www.sportschau.de/doping/germa...

So 19.15 h ARD German TV a new episode of Doping Top Secret: "In the slipstream: Why doping suspicions continue to linger in cycling“. Two weeks before Tour de France: How easy is it to dope in cycling today? Who are the people behind the scenes? How credible are extreme achievements?

Day of shame: aggression in Doha, Qatari officials and their ITTF allies contest Petra Sörling's election and threaten delegates With the narrowest possible result of 104:102 votes, IOC member Petra Sörling from Sweden won the election in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) against Khalil Al-Mohannadi from Qatar. F...

Day of shame: Qatari officials and their allies contest Petra Sörling's election and threaten delegates.
With 104:102 votes, IOC member Sörling won the ITTF election against Khalil Al-Mohannadi. For now. 💰 💰 💰 Qatar will take the matter to court.
www.the-inquisitor-magazine.com/day-of-shame...

Crisis in the global anti-doping fight: How democratic elections are being prevented at WADA On 29 May, a supposedly independent WADA president will be elected for the first time, to take office in 2026. The only candidate allowed to run is the incumbent Witold Banka from Poland; there are no...

How democratic elections are being prevented at WADA. Incumbent President Banka the only candidate in tomorrow's "election"... ARD story with Joerg Winterfeldt and @hajoseppelt.bsky.social
www.sportschau.de/how-democrat...

Doping-free sport in Germany - an illusion, a commentary by Hajo Seppelt For years, the impression has been that there are hardly any cases of doping in Germany. It is now clearer than ever that this has nothing to do with reality. A commentary by Hajo Seppelt.

An interesting story that makes a mockery of the so called transparency in the anti-doping fight. Identities of dozens of other proven dopers in Germany, including likely top level athletes, remain unknown. Analysis from @hajoseppelt.bsky.social here www.sportschau.de/doping-free-... 3-

One of these cases involved world champion kayaker Martin Hiller, who was handed a four-year ban in February after 2 positive tests for 3 anabolic substances. But it is not even clear if all his team-mates knew about it... www.sportschau.de/ard-investig... 2/

Exclusive ARD Doping Editorial Team story on how names of 76 convicted German dopers over last 5 years have stayed secret due to data protection rules. Story with @hajoseppelt.bsky.social and other colleagues www.sportschau.de/names-withhe...

Finally starting to use bSky. ARD Doping Editorial Team story to be published later today exposing how names of many German athletes convicted of doping over last 5 years are not being revealed publicly. Potentially over 100, including a world champion in an Olympic sport...