BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The founder of an online fitness and bodybuilding company in Idaho pleaded guilty to illegally selling misbranded dietary supplements that contained steroids, according to federal prosecutors. The plea agreement says that while DeLuca was CEO between 2007 and 2009, the Meridian company sold five products as dietary supplements that the Food [...]

As the 2012 Summer Games in London approach, the fight against doping continues. Despite notable progress in testing and enforcement, we’re still a great distance from the eradication of steroid use in sports. In order to close the gap between the testers and the dopers, the World Anti-Doping Agency(WADA) needs the help of both government [...]

Hansjorg Wirz, European Athletics President: “It’s about quantity and quality of controls” “The battle is demanding but European Athletics will continue to be a relentless and leading organisation in this battle to secure fairness in sport. We are 100 percent behind the IAAF, the world governing body for athletics, the International Olympic Committee and WADA [...]

Portuguese was recognized as an official language on the ADAMS system run by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA). Portuguese and Mandarin were approved as official ADAMS system languages at a meeting of the World Anti-doping Agency in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday. The Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS) is a Web-based database management system that [...]

Athletes using performance- enhancing drugs such as human growth hormone are “getting away with it” because not enough blood testing is being done, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency said. In 2010, WADA accredited laboratories analyzed 258,267 samples taken from in- and out-of-competition testing worldwide. Out of that amount, “effectively only 5,000” were blood [...]

GUELPH — An online advertisement offering steroids for sale has led to a Cambridge man facing charges. Earlier this month, Guelph Police became aware of a Kijiji advertisement offering steroids for sale. Police arranged to meet with a man in connection with the advertisement in the parking lot of a Guelph gym. The man was [...]

CoachTrue is a computer-based, anti-doping learning tool aimed at sports coaches of elite and recreational athletes worldwide, and WADA has closely monitored its uptake since it was first introduced two years ago. WADA’s Education Department has contacted all stakeholders and provided feedback on the continuing success of its award-winning electronic CoachTrue program. National Anti-Doping Organizations, [...]

On 17 February, the IOC announced that new analyses carried out on the doping samples collected at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin to detect the presence of Continuous Erythropoietin Receptor Activator (CERA) had come back negative. In addition, all tests carried out at the Winter YOG in Innsbruck were also negative. Over 300 [...]

WADA invites applications for its 2012 Social Science Target Research Grant Program no later than 30 April 2012 on the following topic: “Why do athletes say no to doping?” The overarching body of literature available to date concerning the risk and protective factors tends to focus on why athletes would give in to doping. However, [...]

Montreal, February 15, 2012 Dear WADA Stakeholder, As you will be aware, the Code Review Process commenced on 28 November, 2011. Correspondence was sent to all stakeholders informing them of the review and drafting process that will continue over the next two years, with three rounds of consultation and culminating in the World Conference in [...]