The Norwegian weightlifter Ruth Kasirye has been banned for two years after testing positive for Meldonium.
Ten athletes tested positive for Clostebol in 2016. That is three times as many as in 2015, and nearly twice as many as in 2013 when six athletes was banned for using the steroid.
The National Anti-Doping Agency of Germany organizes and conducts all doping controls during the World Table Tennis Championships in Düsseldorf, Germany.
When weightlifting coach Michael Gingras was banned for 12 years, he became part of the more than 200 sports persons who has been sanctioned with a ban longer than ten years.
61 athletes from Kenya has been banned for use of doping. 58 of these competed in the sport of athletics. Of these 26 were women.
A Canadian weightlifter was the latest athlete to be sanctioned after testing positive for clenbuterol. She claimed contaminated food was the reason for the positive test.
101 athletes have so far been registered in the Anti-Doping Database for failing to provide whereabout information. US athletes tops the statistics.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) has in its appeal to the Court of Arbitration and Sport (CAS) stated they want a reasonably extended sanction for the Norwegian Cross Country skier Therese Johaug.
The International Olympic Committee want to create an independent testing authority (ITA) to develop and govern an International Test Distribution Plan (IDTP).
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued decisions concerning Russian race walker Stanislav Emelyanov, Russian middle distance runner Ekaterina Poistogova and Russian athletics coaches Vladimir Kazarin and Alexey Melnikov.