The USADA has laid forward evidence that Lance Armstrong and his team USPS ran ”a massive team doping scheme, more extensive than any previously revealed in professional sports history”.

The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against Lance Armstrong, Washington Post reveals. The seven-time Tour de France winner has been immediately banned from all competitions and stands to lose his titles if he is found guilty.

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.

A new report from the British Coventry University’s International Centre for the Business of Sport (CIBS) finds that corruption in sport is dominated by doping, equating to nearly 96 per cent of all cases, and that betting and non-betting related match-fixing make up less than three per cent of corruption cases.

FIFA has revealed that a record number of athletes tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol at the Under-17 football World Cup in Mexico this year.

Whilst WADA is well-established, there are still a lot of challenges in anti-doping work. The cheats are getting better all the time, and international federations lack resources for quality testing. Meanwhile athletes believe that the testing system in Europe is a mess.