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July 23, 2021

Someone Hired a Private Investigator to See if Alberto Salazar Was Still Coaching Galen Rupp. Here Is What They Found.

Hidden cameras, criminal background checks, and nearly two weeks of surveillance. This story has it all. They found that Rupp regularly uses a house owned by the Salazar family to start many of his runs to the Nike campus. And he uses the underwater treadmill in the back.
October 14, 2020

2020 Has Been the Year of Whereabouts Failures. Why?

Nine athletes -- including recent world champions Christian ColemanSalwa Eid Naser, and Elijah Manangoi -- have been suspended for whereabouts failures in 2020, compared to two in all of 2018 and 2019 combined. What's going on?
April 09, 2020

The Amazing Story Of How Jarrion Lawson Cleared His Name: He Showed That The Head Of A WADA Lab Provided False Testimony Against Him

Jarrion Lawson's is free to compete once again after his legal team was able to show that Christiane Ayotte, the head of the WADA-accredited doping control lab at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Laval, Quebec, lied while testifying during his case.
August 19, 2019

A Life On Pause: Jarrion Lawson's Career Hangs In The Balance As He Fights His Four-Year Doping Ban -- And The Global Anti-Doping System

How do you prove something you ate over a year ago was contaminated with a substance banned for athletes -- but not for cattle? That's what Lawson, who in 2016 joined Jesse Owens as the only men in history to win the 100 meters, 200 meters, and long jump at the NCAA championship and came inches shy of Olympic gold, must do to prove his innocence and save his career.
April 02, 2019

Abbott World Marathon Majors and Athletics Integrity Unit Announce Expanded Out of Competition Testing and Investigation Program

The WMM are putting their money into keeping the sport clean. Others like agents and sponsors need to start joining them.