Honest Sport A journalist dedicated to investigating doping, and the medicalisation of elite sport.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #182
by Edmund Willison on November 29, 2025
Canada's most successful Olympian is banned, the Enhanced Games files to become a publicly-listed stock on the Nasdaq and a Chinese world champion inadvertently tests positive in a hospital.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #181
by Edmund Willison on November 25, 2025
A defamation case draws attention to past scandals in football, a top cyclist shares his opinion on doping and an elite boxer says he lost 'his confidence' after his opponent tested positive.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #180
by Edmund Willison on November 21, 2025
A footballer reportedly blames his failed drug test on a team doctor, the scandal involving an Italian cycling team deepens and Paul Pogba returns to competition.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #179
by Edmund Willison on November 17, 2025
Athletes are reportedly taking Ozempic combined with steroids, a Paris 2024 gold medallist is banned and there is a serious scandal in rugby.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #178
by Edmund Willison on November 13, 2025
A US Olympic sprinter is caught doping in Florida, WADA advises its officials against travelling to the World Cup and the UCI president laments that 'what isn't forbidden is allowed'.
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Doping - trending up or down?
by Edmund Willison on November 11, 2025
Recent surveys have estimated doping prevalence in elite sport to lie between 13% and 36%. WADA says that the problem is 'trending downwards'. Is this indeed the case?
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #177
by Edmund Willison on November 10, 2025
A doping control officer celebrates with a football team, a young tennis player is suspended for alleged steroid use and the former US Postal director questions the legitimacy of the ABP.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #176
by Edmund Willison on November 6, 2025
Italian prosecutors investigate the sudden deaths of two runners, Enhanced Games athletes feel 'better than ever' and there is a scandal in horse racing.
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Archive #1-182: Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up
by Edmund Willison on November 3, 2025
Every Monday and Thursday, I publish a weekly press-round up of all the doping stories in the media from the past seven days. You can find the full archive below.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #175
by Edmund Willison on November 3, 2025
A federation honours a suspended athlete, the New York City marathon winner is drawn into a scandal and a Team Sky cyclist said he made life 'hell' for riders caught doping.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #174
by Edmund Willison on October 30, 2025
A runner tricks a clinic into prescribing her EPO, the British cyclist Mark Cavendish is asked whether cycling has recovered from past scandals and there are yet more trimetazidine cases.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #173
by Edmund Willison on October 27, 2025
The marathon world record holder Ruth Chepng'etich is banned, a cyclist tests positive for EPO after returning from suspension and the French 100m champion Mouhamadou Fall joins the Enhanced Games.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #172
by Edmund Willison on October 23, 2025
Sir Bradley Wiggins addresses Team Sky's doping scandals in his new book, an Olympic hurdler inadvertently ingests her grandmother's eyedrops and the UCI warns against ketone use.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #171
by Edmund Willison on October 20, 2025
A French police officer is suspected of trafficking doping substances, another Italian athlete tests positive for clostebol and Carl Lewis says world records will not be broken at the Enhanced Games.
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36% of Spanish athletes 'admit' to doping at national athletics championships - Town Square #24
by Edmund Willison on October 20, 2025
I'm sharing the results of several major doping prevalence surveys which I reported on in The Telegraph this weekend.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #170
by Edmund Willison on October 16, 2025
An Irish swimmer joins the Enhanced Games, a Nobel Prize winner is mistakenly appointed to an anti-doping commission and another Kenyan runner is caught blood doping.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #169
by Edmund Willison on October 13, 2025
A British Winter Olympic hopeful is banned, a tennis player's 'kissing' defence is rejected and a visually impaired sprinter's guide tests positive.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #168
by Edmund Willison on October 9, 2025
A former Jamaican sprinter is imprisoned, the NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. tests positive and the Team Ineos cyclist Geraint Thomas is asked about the doping scandal surrounding the team's soigneur.
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UFC star Conor McGregor is banned for missing doping tests - Town Square #23
by Edmund Willison on October 9, 2025
In April, the Northern Irish MMA fighter Karl Moore tested positive for EPO while training at the Straight Blast Gym under McGregor's coach. The UFC superstar must now also serve a suspension.
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Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #167
by Edmund Willison on October 6, 2025
Kenya avoids a worldwide ban, a 13-year old skier tests positive and there is concern about banned peptide use across Australia.






