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Pakistani Wrestler Banned, Stripped Of Commonwealth Games Medal For Using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Pakistani wrestler Ali Asad has been stripped of his bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games after testing positive for using performance enhancing drugs. The Pakistan Wrestling Federation confirmed that Ali Asad had not only been banned for four years but also stripped of his bronze which he won in the 2022 Birmingham CWG. "His tests carried out by the International Testing Agency (ITA) have confirmed he took performance enhancing drugs during the event," one official said. The ruling on his case came this week, following investigation by the ITA.

Doping-Russian doping investigation hits milestone with over 300 sanctions, says WADA

April 30 : The probe into Russia's state-backed doping programme passed a milestone of over 300 sanctions against athletes in what the World Anti-Doping Agency president described on Thursday as the "most successful investigation in anti-doping history".

New Zealand to apply new IOC gender policy with 'respect and care'

SYDNEY, March 27 : The New Zealand Olympic Committee on Friday acknowledged the amount of work that went into developing the new Olympic policy on the protection of the female category in elite sport and said it would apply it with "respect and care".

Record-smashing powerlifter, 68, says she lives for the 'clang' of the weights

On Thursday morning, 68-year-old Mava Brydges put the weight of a household refrigerator onto her back, lowered herself toward the floor and then stood up again.

Olympian weightlifter faces potential suspension, loss of medal after doping violation

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In a tiny hall far from Cairo, a club forges Egyptian girls' Olympic wrestling dreams

MANSOURA, Egypt, Dec 22 : In ‌a cramped hall barely larger than a living room in the working-class Nile Delta city of Mansoura, girls grapple, tumble, and clamber to their feet again on worn mats, their laughter and shouts echoing off the peeling walls.

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Pakistani Wrestler Banned, Stripped Of Commonwealth Games Medal For Using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Doping-Russian doping investigation hits milestone with over 300 sanctions, says WADA

New Zealand to apply new IOC gender policy with 'respect and care'

Record-smashing powerlifter, 68, says she lives for the 'clang' of the weights

Olympian weightlifter faces potential suspension, loss of medal after doping violation

In a tiny hall far from Cairo, a club forges Egyptian girls' Olympic wrestling dreams

Texas AG investigating weightlifting competition that saw trans athlete compete against women

Trump says Mamdani 'thinks it's wonderful to have men playing in women's sports,' mocks trans weightlifter

Weightlifting-Indonesia's Juniansyah sets record en route to world championships gold