This article was updated on April 12, 2013, and includes responses from WADA and GSK.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has taken the unusual step of warning athletes about the health risks of the banned…
Myths surround the use of polygraph machines.
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Please, sit down. Try not to sweat. Just relax. Now, answer honestly: could lie detectors succeed where current anti-doping measures in sport are failing?
If you answered “yes” you are not alone. There…
Is our current form of hyper-competitive sport transgressive of fair play?
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What’s the point of anti-doping? And what’s the point of sport in the early 21st century? Is the current system of anti-doping good for our kids, our athletes and is it good for sport? Is it even good…
Part of Team GB’s success at the 2012 Olympics can be attributed to rigorous sports science.
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Stephen Dank, the man at the centre of Essendon drug scandal has been widely quoted in the media as a sport scientist or performance scientist. He has a PhD but is not accredited with Exercise Sport Science…
Since claims of systematic doping in Australian sport emerged last week, the role of sports scientists has been called into question.
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Sports scientists have taken something of a media beating over the past week following revelations of alleged widespread illegal doping across Australian professional sporting codes. While this may be…
Elite tennis players put their bodies through a lot, so what does it take to recover properly?
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Will an extra day’s rest and recovery give Novak Djokovic an advantage over Federer or Murray in Sunday’s Australian Open final?
In case you missed it, Djokovic, the defending Australian Open champion…
Andy Murray’s coach Ivan Lendl (left) has led the Scot to great success … so what makes a great coach?
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Every January the Australian Open attracts the world’s best tennis players to Melbourne in a bid to become champion of the Asia-Pacific Grand Slam.
While the players are undoubtedly the main draw card…
You know that one person who just has to beat you on every run? They could be doing you good.
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A new study out of Michigan State University and published in the Annals of Behavioural Medicine could shed some light on how to manage our motivation to exercise – by training with people that are fitter…
