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'Not harmless': Australia's fresh peptide warning

Sports Integrity Australia is issuing new warning about the use of peptides ahead of James Magnussen and others competing at the Enhanced Games.

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Asian Cup to kick off match-fixing crackdown

Australia is susceptible to match fixing set up by offshore criminal networks due to popular illegal betting markets being unperturbed by ad hoc enforcement.

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Australian sport still has a gender-based violence problem. Our new guide might help tackle it

Research shows gender-based violence in sport is widespread: between a quarter and three-quarters of women within sport report experiencing some form of psychological, physical or sexual violence during their sporting lives.

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NRL joins AFL in identifying players it suspects of drug use for testing target ‘list’

Parliamentary inquiry told league provides names of athletes to SIA as in-house investigators collect intelligence on suspected drug-users

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Australia targets offshore wagering threat with major sporting events on horizon

Sports integrity experts to improve collaboration to combat illegal betting with Women’s Asian Cup next global event to come with increased risk

The Guardian - AU

National task force launched to combat match-fixing

Sport Integrity Australia is setting up a national task force to address potential match-fixing, with the 2026 Women's Asian Cup its first project.

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Athletes warn against potential health risks of ‘dangerous, unethical’ Enhanced Games

Sport Integrity Australia takes aim at event planned for May 2026 as Australian body calls on clean athletes to resist the lure of prize money

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One third of sport supplements expose athletes to risk of doping, study reveals

One in three uncertified products contain Wada-prohibited substances with fat and muscle burning products ‘particularly risky’ for elite athletes

The Guardian - AU

Sarah Benson: from a PhD in explosives to overseeing integrity in Australian sport

The former forensic scientist was given a baptism of fire in her new role but says she has the skillset to tackle the combustible world of sport

The Guardian - AU

Sport anti-corruption chief forecasts evolving threats

Sport Integrity Australia's new chief executive says the nature of threats to fair play will evolve leading into the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

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Drug saga 'one of the biggest mistakes' of Cooks' life

Xavier Cooks has opened up on the positive drug test that sidelined him from the Sydney Kings' NBL post-season campaign.

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The US has exposed the World Anti-Doping Agency’s precarious funding model

Warren Buffet once famously said: “you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”

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Tennis is facing an existential crisis over doping. How will it respond?

As the Australian Open gets under way in Melbourne, the sport is facing a crisis over positive doping tests involving two of the biggest stars in tennis.

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Athletics Australia calls on other potential victims

Disgraced pole vault coach Alex Parnov is accused of engaging in alleged predatory behaviour during his time at the West Australian Institute of Sport.

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Melbourne player Joel Smith handed four-year AFL ban for cocaine saga

Demons player banned from playing Australian rules football until 2028 after returning positive test following a game in 2023

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Irish Continental level professional cyclist suspended after EPO positive

Jesse Ewart, who rode for Terengganu Cycling, has been banned until 2027

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Australian Rules Cleared Of Anti-doping Breaches

An inquiry Monday cleared Australian Rules players and support staff of feigning injuries to cover up illicit drug use, but recommended the sport overhaul its approach amid fears of "criminal infiltration".

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Wilkie says AFL dodged a drug breach on 'technicality'

Federal MP Andrew Wilkie and the AFL have drawn sharply different conclusions from the Sport Integrity Australia report on the league's illicit drugs policy.

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Sharpe steps down as chief of Sport Integrity Australia

David Sharpe is stepping down as chief executive of Sport Integrity Australia, saying the organisation has achieved much in the four years since inception.

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‘Incredibly small’ number of AFL players pulled from games for positive drug tests, union says

AFLPA head Paul Marsh says speculation missing the mark, while Sport Integrity Australia is now assessing allegations by MP Andrew Wilkie

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Stop downplaying racism, integrity boss tells sports

Sport Integrity Australia chief David Sharpe says national sports leaders must stop downplaying racism as fresh claims emerge involving the AFL.

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Demon Smith and new Blue Hollands in drugs drama

Melbourne's Joel Smith tested positive to cocaine after the round 23 win over Hawthorn, and now Carlton recruit Elijah Hollands is facing his own drug drama.

The Guardian - AU

Peter Bol exonerated six months after ‘false positive’ drug test as anti-doping body closes investigation

Australian athlete says the news is a dream come true and no one should experience what he has gone through

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What went wrong in Peter Bol's doping case? A sport integrity expert explains

Lawyers for Australian 800-metre star Peter Bol say allegations the runner engaged in doping should be dropped after two independent labs found no evidence he used a banned substance.

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Experts predict ‘potentially massive’ global impact of Peter Bol doping case

Sport Integrity Australia and the government laboratory accused of botching Peter Bol’s anti-doping test sample are staying silent as pressure builds

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