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Conor McGregor has accepted an 18-month ban for violating the UFC’s anti-doping policy, the organisation says. According to Combat Sports Anti-Doping (CSAD), Irish fighter McGregor, 37, missed three attempted biological sample collections within a 12-month period in 2024. UFC policy dictates that athletes must provide accurate whereabouts information at all times, so they can be contacted and submit to biological …

U.S. sprinter Erriyon Knighton was handed a four-year ban on Friday as part of a doping case that will rule the 21-year-old out of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] Judges for the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld appeals made by the World Anti-Doping Agency and …

“Nothing’s changed for me,” British swimmer Ben Proud told The Athletic this week. “I’m doing exactly what I love. Just in a different competition.” But that is not quite the case. Proud’s decision to join the Enhanced Games is far more significant than that. This is not merely a change of format, like a sprinter signing up for Grand Slam …

Australia’s Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt has received a two-week ban and been fined 30,000 Australian dollars (£14,600) after being found guilty of pushing a doping control official. Hewitt pushed a 60-year-old volunteer anti-doping chaperone after Australia’s Davis Cup semi-final defeat by Italy last November in Malaga, Spain. The two-time Grand Slam singles winner was charged in January for engaging …

As it did with MMA, the UFC is attempting to take over the world of professional grappling, but it will have to do so without one of the sport’s biggest stars. UFC BJJ is an offshoot of TKO set on bringing UFC structure and production to the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The promotion has already two events and plans on …

Jul 17, 2025, 11:50 AM ET MONACO — Women’s marathon world-record holder Ruth Chepngetich was provisionally suspended for a positive doping test Thursday. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Chepngetich tested positive for a banned diuretic and masking agent in March and “opted for a voluntary provisional suspension while the AIU’s investigation was ongoing.” The Kenyan runner set the …

Marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a doping violation. Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ), a diuretic that is included on the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) banned list, was found in a sample of Chepngetich’s urine collected on March 14, five days after she finished second in the Lisbon Half Marathon with a …

British tennis player Tara Moore has been handed a four-year anti-doping sanction despite previously being cleared of any wrongdoing. Moore, 32, was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroids boldenone and nandrolone following a tournament in Colombia in April 2022. An independent tribunal, 19 months later, ruled that Moore bore no fault or negligence in December 2023. However, …

LONDON — For weeks while back home in Warsaw last year, Iga Swiatek hung out with friends and made new ones, but didn’t dare tell them about a doping case that was hanging over her. “Obviously, in the back of my mind,” she said Saturday evening at the All England Club, “I had this thing.” There was more going on, …