Doping Cases and Bans in 2025

[Surlympics 1,379]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Penny Oleksiak joins the "omg how on earth do you fill in your whereabouts wrongly three times in barely 8 months?!" club and is very lucky to have her 2 year suspension be over in time for LA 2028.

This is true but 

 

Can someone please explain to me how Penny Oleksiak gets two years for a whereabouts violation, while China’s whole swim team had proven consumption of TMZ and faced zero consequences?

[Dragon 2,085]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footballer-to-fail-drug-test

 

Footballers test positive for the pitch

[phelps 8,767]

3 hours ago, Dragon said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footballer-to-fail-drug-test

 

Footballers test positive for the pitch

and it's not even about minimal trace, it's about a value exceeding a certain threshold 

c'mon! has that woman eaten an entire clod of grass?

 

after all the loughable sex-related excuses, this must be one of the craziest I've ever read of...

[Dragon 2,085]

Back to the Paris Olympics for this one.

Eleni-Klaoudia Polak got sent home from Paris for a positive dope test.

Ok, the Greek never reached the final of the pole vault so getting sent home wasn't a big punishment.

Then we learnt that the test on July 29 was thrown out because she had a legitimate medical use for the drug.

Now we find out that she also tested positive earlier in July and gets banned for 4 years.

[Orangehair43 317]

On 11/26/2025 at 1:27 AM, Surlympics said:

This is true but 

 

Can someone please explain to me how Penny Oleksiak gets two years for a whereabouts violation, while China’s whole swim team had proven consumption of TMZ and faced zero consequences?

Becuase China pay bribes and Canada don’t. 

[phelps 8,767]

https://www.oasport.it/2025/12/christian-bacico-positivo-al-clostebol-arriva-la-sospensione-cautelare-rischio-squalifica/

 

another Sinner-alike case coming, this time in swimming     

 

what are the odds against him to get a significantly different treatment? 

[bestmen 2,926]

From 2020 to 2025 

 

These three countries alone make up almost two-thirds (61.9%) of all current doping violations in athletics worldwide. It’s worth noting that 199 of World Athletics’ 214 member federations have no athletes on the current ban list. This means the problem is really concentrated in a small number of places.

Here’s a look at the top countries:

Rank	Country	Total Violations	Percentage	Region
1	Kenya	119	24.74%	Africa
2	India	108	22.45%	Asia
3	Russia	73	15.18%	Europe
4	China	26	5.40%	Asia
5	Turkey	20	4.16%	Europe
6	Italy	18	3.74%	Europe
7	South Africa	18	3.74%	Africa
8	Ukraine	17	3.53%	Europe
9	United States	16	3.33%	North America
10	Morocco	15	3.12%	Africa

[bestmen 2,926]

Doping by Event Type

When we look at which events have the most doping cases, a few categories stand out from recent sanction records:

• Long Distance (3,000m and above): 32% of cases
• Sprints (400m or less): 24% of cases
• Jumps: 12% of cases
• Javelin: 8% of cases
• Middle Distance (800m–1,500m): 8% of cases
• Hammer: 8% of cases
• Steeplechase (3,000m SC): 4% of cases