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July 17, 2026 1:27 PM

Government enforces anti-doping laws to strengthen clean sport framework

The Centre has notified the commencement of the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 and the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Act, 2025, significantly strengthening India's legal and institutional framework to combat doping in sports and align the country's anti-doping regime with global standards. According to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the enforcement of the two Acts provides a comprehensive statutory framework to prevent doping in sports, protect athletes' rights and uphold the ...

May 21, 2026 5:14 PM

India proposes tough anti-doping law amendments to crack down on traffickers, syndicates and illegal suppliers

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has placed proposed amendments to anti-doping laws in the public domain for stakeholder consultation, seeking to criminalise organised doping-related activities while protecting athletes from criminal prosecution for routine anti-doping rule violations. The proposed framework is aimed at tackling the growing network involved in trafficking, illegal supply, administration and commercial distribution of prohibited performance-enhancing substances and metho...

October 17, 2025 11:05 PM

Enhanced Games destined to fail, says sprint great Carl Lewis

Sprint great Carl Lewis says he does not think the controversial Enhanced Games will be successful and the American is not keen to lend it any oxygen either. The Enhanced Games, which allows athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs to elicit 'superhuman' performances, has stirred the still water of traditional sports and attracted Olympic medallists such as American sprinter Fred Kerley and British swimmer Ben Proud. "I don't think it's going to be successful," nine-times Olympic gold medal...

September 12, 2025 5:08 PM

US sprinter Knighton banned for four years for doping violation

American sprinter Erriyon Knighton was handed a four-year ban for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation after the Court of Arbitration for Sport partially upheld appeals by World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency on Friday. His ban is effective from Friday with credit for the provisional suspension he served between April 12 and June 19 last year, preventing the 21-year-old from competing at the upcoming World Championships in Tokyo. Knighton, a 200 metres world silver medallist in 2023, was ...

June 4, 2025 4:48 PM

Rabada tested positive for cocaine, says South African testing agency

Kagiso Rabada's month suspension after he failed a drug test was because the fast bowler tested positive for cocaine, the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport has said. Rabada, who was with the Gujarat Titans when he returned home from the Indian Premier League in April, admitted failing a drug test and apologised for his actions. The 30-year-old, ranked number two in the test bowler rankings, said he had returned an adverse analytical finding for the use of a recreational drug. Rabada...