After the Olympics: The risks of the quest for performance
The Olympic Games celebrate sporting excellence, but behind these exceptional performances often lies a darker reality. The relentless quest to ...
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Food supplements: ANSES’s warning to athletes
Protruding muscles, bellies in the shape of chocolate bars, seasoned athletes sometimes carry around their figure arrogantly. A humiliation for ...
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Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson’s suspension for the Olympics revives the debate on cannabis in sport
American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson received a one-month suspension by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, invalidating her qualification for the Olympic ...
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Spinach could greatly increase the performance of athletes
A new German study sheds light on the doping nature of ecdysterone, a component naturally present in spinach which helps ...
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Doping: athletes more sensitive to morality than to the dangers to their health
A study shows that, for athletes, the notion of morality deters them more from using banned doping products than the ...
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Football is no exception to doping
The Tour de France will replace football on our TV screens and with it the eternal debate on doping, while ...
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The world of football cannot escape doping
Doping has always been the world of hypocrisy. The financial stakes always prevail over the health stakes. It took Lance ...
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Christopher Froome didn’t necessarily dope with salbutamol
After Christopher Froome's positive salbutamol test on the Vuelta, the question arises as to the reality of the asthma from ...
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EPO: researchers question its doping effect
The slight increase in performance seen with EPO could be caused by a placebo effect, according to Dutch researchers. The ...
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Sport and abuse: “All levels of practice are concerned”
Strong training, violence, doping: abuse remains taboo in the sports world. The Ethics & Sport Committee creates a telephone number ...
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Food supplements: 49 side effects reported
ANSES points to health risks for uncertain benefits in its latest opinion on food supplements for athletes.Food supplements are not ...
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Food supplements: they can have a doping effect
© ThinkStockFor Michel Audran, professor of biophysics at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Montpellier and specialist in doping blood, “no ...
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Mont-Blanc: more than one in three mountaineers “dope” with drugs
To overcome the ordeal of Mont-Blanc, more than 35% of climbers take a diuretic or a hypnotic. Medicines far from ...
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Medicine: a third of students doping during exams
In France, one in three medical students consumes psychoactive substances during exams, according to a study.Doping in the student world ...
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Doping: an English doctor would have provided 150 sportsmen
The Sunday Times reveals a potential scandal via the recording of a British doctor: he boasts of having provided doping ...
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Sharapova case: 490 athletes doped with meldonium
An investigation carried out during the European Games in Baku (Azerbaijan) revealed that 490 athletes would have taken Meldonium during ...
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Germany: doped athletes risk prison
Germany adopts a law to better regulate the practice of high-level athletes, and to dissuade any attempt at doping.Faced with ...
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Doping at school: training teachers to spot risky behavior
Secondary school teachers will be trained to better identify doping behavior in their students. An action that is part of ...
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Doping: can teenagers also be affected?
© iStockDoes doping also exist among amateur athletes?Prof. Jean-François Toussaint: The frequency of doping among young people is difficult to ...
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Medicines: how the military keeps the military in action
INVESTIGATION - To improve or restore the performance of soldiers during high-risk missions, the armies can order the intake of ...
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Food supplements: better armed, more muscular soldiers
INVESTIGATION - To improve or restore the performance of soldiers during high-risk missions, the armies can order the intake of ...
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Creatine associated with increased risk of testicular cancer
Certain supplements consumed in order to increase muscle mass - creatine, hormones - are believed to be associated with an ...
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Doping: the pitfalls of food supplements
Before consuming a food supplement, it is better to know it. One in five could contain a doping substance. Notice ...
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Doping products: a student tried for playing the little chemist
A student, a bodybuilding fan, appeared before the Lyon Criminal Court for manufacturing and reselling anabolic products.A swollen case… Denis, ...
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Doping: keep urine for 10 years to detect the undetectable
While the World Anti-Doping Code will soon be revised, sports authorities have made a shocking announcement. They will now keep ...
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Steroids, the leading cause of testicular atrophy
The use of anabolic steroids is very widespread among young amateur athletes. A study reveals that it is the number ...
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Tour de France cyclists have 6 more years of life expectancy
Cyclists engaged in the Tour de France have a 41% reduction in mortality compared to the general population. For the ...
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Doping: the incredible figures of the athletics worlds
A study by the World Anti-Doping Agency reveals the extent of doping in athletics. The premature deaths of some athletes ...
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Tour de France: doctors denounce the doping race
The hourly average on the Tour de France is steadily increasing. Like the former runners, the sports doctors question the ...
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World Cup: controversy over a drug used as a doping agent
© iStockWhile France has just won hands down its very first match against Honduras (3-0), a medical controversy has just ...
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