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1/46 Ever wondered what the doping controversies surrounding Team Sky were ... but couldn’t find a single, easily readable source explaining them? Check out this thread.

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@kaypeem probably a first offence with prompt admission (year reduction)

@cleans_letsrun Multiple substances and yet three years!?

Three year ban for US weightlifter after he tests +ve for Testosterone and a diuretic usada.org/sanction/antho…

Conor McGregor returns from doping ban thesun.co.uk/sport/38573021…

Velo: Cycling's Collective Punishment Anti-Doping Rule is Brutal but Necessary velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-raci…

Well done ITA, this is what we want to see. 👍 @ukantidoping take note.

@ValMThatcher Yep, almost certainly a UKAD decision. They've not had any funding cuts so I find it a really disappointing decision. Especially when UKAD are catching ever fewer dopers using over 10 million GBP of tax payers' money, and with near-zero accountability.

@cleans_letsrun The way I understand that’s not down to the sport.

British weightlifting. UKAD stats show that testing was reduced by 50% between 2024 and 2025. (data: 120 tests in total for 2024, 29 for first 6 months of 2025) And just one in-competition test for the whole of 2025. Maybe UKAD see it now as a low-risk sport for doping? 🤷‍♂️

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@ValMThatcher You are probably right, but what I don't understand is why testing has been halved. It's a sport in which the temptations to dope are very high because of the direct difference it can make to results.

@cleans_letsrun It still must be one of the most highly tested sports vs numbers

@polevaultpower And he seems to end up involved in contamination cases which aren't all they appear (cf. Asinga, Garcia ...)

I do not have anything good to say about Paul Greene. USATF hires him for some of their dirty work.

@TheErinBrown Don't forget Ryan Garcia. Paul Greene represented him on a contaminated supplement defence. Garcia's NutraBio supplement tub was sent to VADA and tested +ve for Ostarine. But the company batches tested -ve. Go figure.

That's why they gotta stop that silent ban/cover up shii! Who tf knew Gerald Phiri was ever in trouble with WADA for possessing gw1516 while he was an athlete! and in 2024 after Issam ban was found In possession of meldonium while acting as an athlete support person. He was flagged again when he "failed to co-operate with the investigation by providing false and inaccurate information." And still was allowed to coach kids until 2025! If all of this was public those stupid antidoping lawyers could've had an easy case tracking the drug back to the original source. But since all of this was covered up, Paul Greene who's know to come of with the dumbest tampering excuses for these antidoping cases (Shelby Houlihan , Issam Asinga) , had to come up with some type of defense cause none of them knew about any of this so that's probably how the Gatorade shii came about.

US T&F athlete Alia Armstrong is given a warning by USADA after testing positive for the banned diuretic and anti-androgen drug Spironolactone. Armstrong suffers from acne and was using the drug earlier this year to clear it up, but had failed to obtain a TUE for it.

How easy is it to get a reduced ban from an A-DA? Ruth Chepngetich told the AIU that she had "never doped". Then told them she had taken her housemaid's medication - "hardly credible", said the AIU. Her phone showed she might be doping in other ways. 4 year ban reduced to 3.

Another multiple marathon winner from Kenya is banned.

I'm surprised Brailsford didn't come up with this first

@usantidoping “News of the day,” really? USADA still hasn’t responded to me on why it lectures others on governance while its CEO has been in charge for 20 years without a transparent CEO selection process. And yet, I’m not making a scandal out of it.

I'm sure there is an obscure WAD C provision which justifies this but it really is a bad look for anti-doping.

A more accurate phrasing would be: "The AIU banned Adaejah Hodge (BVI) for 17 months. We are telling you now after it is over. In other words, it was a 'silent ban'." #optics

@JWLevitt Nobody missed it. They just applied the duck test and moved on quickly.

How did we miss a woman running 2:10???