When film maker Bryan Fogel set out to make a documentary about doping in cycling, he had no idea what he was about to uncover.



An amateur bike racer, Fogel decided to undergo a doping program himself in order to find...

Life after the Olympics has been quite an experience for Hayley Wickenheiser. The longtime hockey star retired last year and is now a member of the IOC Athlete's Commission. In this interview with The National's Rosemary Barton,...

The independent investigator appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency is Canadian Richard McLaren

World Anti-Doping Agency panel calls for Russia to be banned from sports competitions for wide-spread offences

Russia was kicked out of the upcoming Paralympics as punishment for the state running a doping operation

Brazil is in the grips of a political and economic crisis while also dealing with construction headaches and concerns about infrastructure, Adrienne Arsenault reports

Russia's Olympic team has been under increased scrutiny after evidence revealed a state-sponsored doping program. However, about two-thirds of the team is being allowed to compete.

Olympic champion says it is good to send a 'strong message'

Russia lost its appeal against the Olympic ban on its track and field athletes, a decision which could add pressure on the IOC to exclude the country entirely from next month's games.

Russia’s Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko has said he is ‘grateful’ to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not imposing a blanket ban on Russia competing at the Rio Olympics.



He said he hoped that the majority of...

It's 40 days until the Rio Olympics and the list of challenges for the host city gets longer, CBC's Chris Glover reports

Several of Maria Sharapova’s main sponsors have confirmed that they are standing by her.



The sports clothing firm Nike said it will continue sponsoring her, as will racket provider Head and bottled water...

There are new, damning claims of state-sponsored doping among Russian athletes.

There was swift sponsor reaction to tennis star Maria Sharapova failing a drug test.



Her principle sponsor – Nike – suspended, though did not for the moment sever, their relationship saying it “continues...

Russia's track and field athletes have been barred from the Olympics because of allegations of state-sponsored doping, but training continues.

Brazil is awash in controversy, one month before the start of the Rio Olympics. Gold medalists Hayley Wickenheiser and Mark Tewksbury weigh in on the stress this puts on athletes.

CBC's Susan Ormiston snags rare interview with Valentin Balakhnichev, the disgraced former head of Russia's athletic federation

A blistering report by the World Anti-Doping Agency finds corruption at the very top of world track and field.

The whistleblowers who exposed Russia's doping system in track and field tell their story to our Adrienne Arsenault.

In the latest episode of Brave New World, Evgeny Lebedev talks to entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer about his latest venture, The Enhanced Games and how it might change the face of sport.

The most successful Olympian of all time calls for reform in the fight against doping.

The National’s Adrienne Arsenault explores the highs and lows of the 2022 Beijing Games as well as the unique challenges of an Olympics in a COVID-zero country.

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test. But if Valieva is in the top three, the IOC says, 'No flower ceremony and...

Russian 15-year-old skater Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete at the Winter Olympics, after it had emerged she had failed a drugs test before the Games.