The World Anti-Doping Agency is on a search—not just for athletes using drugs to gain an unfair advantage, but for proposals for using artificial intelligence to help catch those athletes. According to iNews, a UK news source, the agency is requesting proposals for AI pilots to help better catch suspicious athletes, send warnings, and perform […]
PyeongChang’s Olympic flame will be ignited underneath the cloud of the Russian doping scandal. Just because the International Olympic Committee has banned Russia, the doping debate is far from over. Roger Pielke Jr., director of the University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Athletics Sports Governance Center, thinks the messy and lengthy investigation process starts with flaws […]
The International Centre for Sport Security announced Thursday it was developing a new mobile app that looks to help athletes scan, record and be alerted about whether or not medicines they might use are legal to use in sports. The Trusted Athlete App is scheduled to be launched later this year and will provide athletes, coaches, doctors, […]
Should apps have anti-doping guidelines? This is the problematic question that the people at activity tracking app Strava are having to ask themselves after the latest uproar over a popular user was charged with one misdemeanor count for shipping a vial of illegal, performance-enhancing drug erythropoietin. The user Thorfinn Sassquatch, whose real name is Nick […]
In the world of cycling the most ignominious event to occur has been Lance Armstrong juicing his way to seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999-2005, each of which he was retroactively stripped of after acquiescing to 2012 charges of using performance-enhancing drugs. But a new “technological doping” scandal is making its way through the […]
