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Sportspharmacy congratulates LONDON 2012 on the success of the Olympic bid. These Olympic Games will provide an invaluable opportunity to enhance the profile and excellence of sports medicine and anti-doping in the UK.


Sportspharmacy aims to highlight the many ways that the pharmacy profession is evolving in the field of sports medicine.

This website is intended as a meeting place for pharmacists involved in sport at any level. It is a place to share stories, highlight new projects and access information and education relevant to pharmacists within the sporting arena.

2008 LIST OF PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES NOW AVAILABLE
The World Anti-Doping Agency has released the new
list of prohibited substances
CPPE SPORT COURSES FOR PHARMACISTS
The Centre for Postgraduate Education is currently running three fantastic workshops for pharmacists Read more

Latest Doping News

Blonska under investigation for doping - Sports Network

Times Online

Blonska under investigation for doping
Sports Network - 1 hour ago
Blonska, who served a two-year doping ban from 2003-05, would also be disqualified from the Beijing Games and would not be able to participate in Friday's ...
Ukrainian silver medalist in doping investigation The Associated Press
Blonska in doping scandal International Herald Tribune
Blonska to face doping probe Aljazeera.net
Xinhua - Sydney Morning Herald
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Expert says Asif can be cleared of doping - International Herald Tribune

SuperSport

Expert says Asif can be cleared of doping
International Herald Tribune, France - 5 hours ago
He is also vice president of the Asian Federation of Sports Medicine. The Pakistan Cricket Board has distanced itself from Asif's latest doping case with ...
Fast bowler Mohammad Asif’s ‘B’ sample tests positive Daily Times
Mohammad Asif’s B sample tests positive Zee News
Inconsistent result might give a The Nation, Pakistan
Sportinglife.com - sportal.co.nz
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Doping Cases: Merely Maintaining the Credibility of the Spectacle? - Wall Street Journal Blogs

Aljazeera.net

Doping Cases: Merely Maintaining the Credibility of the Spectacle?
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 22 hours ago
If the IOC assesses a penalty, athletes can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sports, a Swiss body which runs on-site arbitrations. ...
Olympic Anti-Doping Efforts Up as Positive Tests Drop Deutsche Welle
HOC president: Greek sports face organized doping CNN
Organized doping or not, Greek sport in serious trouble Hellenicathletes.com
The Age - Bangkok Post
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Sotherton anger at doping cheat - Independent

Sotherton anger at doping cheat
Independent, UK - 23 minutes ago
The Ukrainian has already served a two-year doping ban and Sotherton, who would move up from fifth to fourth in the heptathlon if the International Olympic ...
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'Bolt's 100 win the best ever' - News24

Sydney Morning Herald

'Bolt's 100 win the best ever'
News24, South Africa - 1 hour ago
Sceptics often raise the spectre of doping when such amazing feats occur in the sport these days, in the wake of the Balco scandal and Marion Jones' ...
Jamaican sprinters break through Globe and Mail
Beijing Games waits for all-clear on Usain Bolt's world record run Telegraph.co.uk
New challenge ahead for mighty Bolt Sify
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Jamaica Observer
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Eleftherotypia: Greece with gold medal for doping - EMportal

Eleftherotypia: Greece with gold medal for doping
EMportal, Serbia - 3 hours ago
Greece has been on the front line at the Olympics with its 15 sports player, who had been convicted in taking drugs, Greek Eleftherotypia newspaper reports. ...
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New head of USA Track and Field is trying to clean house - Kansas City Star

New head of USA Track and Field is trying to clean house
Kansas City Star, MO - 10 hours ago
For example, Jamaica authorized an official anti-doping agency exactly nine days ago. I'm not kidding - on the third day of the 2008 Games. ...
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The Dark Story Behind China’s Gold Medals - The Epoch Times

The Dark Story Behind China’s Gold Medals
The Epoch Times, NY - 18 Aug 2008
On February 2006, Helga Pfeifter, former East German flume swimming coach—and an expert of East Germany’s Sports Doping System—appeared at the Shanghai ...
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Ohuruogu dared to believe and it all came true - guardian.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Ohuruogu dared to believe and it all came true
guardian.co.uk, UK - 14 hours ago
Without anti-doping rules, athletics is not much more than the wild-west with spikes. Without athletes who show respect for anti-doping rules, the sport ...
Late charge gets 400 gold San Diego Union Tribune
Ohuruogu the Orient Express Independent
New golden girl Christine Ohuruogu will be forever tarnished Times Online
New York Times - guardian.co.uk
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Nigeria: Country's Restored Olympic Gold - AllAfrica.com

San Diego Union Tribune

Nigeria: Country's Restored Olympic Gold
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 5 hours ago
We urge the IOC, IAAF and sporting bodies the world over to redouble their efforts in the fight to rid sports of doping and other unwholesome practices. ...
Olympic softball lacked swing vote San Diego Union Tribune
Major leaguers want to play in Games: IBAF Reuters
US dominance poses no threat to Olympic softball's survival Xinhua
Daily Times
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doping sport athletes OR athletics OR anti-doping OR anti OR doping OR antidoping - Google News Read More
 
 
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