The summer of 2012 was hailed as a triumph for British sport as a home Olympics unfolded with gold raining on London in the most successful Games for Team GB in 104 years. Of the 65 medals for the host nation, 19 of them gold, 12 gongs came from a single sport: cycling. Team GB’s … Read more
Scientists transform spinach into a catalyst for batteries that can power anything from electric cars to military equipment Spinach can be used as a cheaper and safer catalyst for batteries that power anything from smartphones to electric cars and military equipment Researchers transformed the vegetable into carbon nanosheets by washing, freezing and grinding it, and then … Read more
Former World Athletics boss Lamine Diack is JAILED for two years and fined €500,000 after being found guilty of corruption in Russian doping scandal Ex-head of World Athletics, Lamine Diack, has been convicted of corruption He was handed a prison sentence of at least two years after being found guilty Diack was found guilty of accepting … Read more
British Olympians were used as guinea pigs to test an experimental substance in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money in a bid to enhance their performance at London 2012, an MoS investigation has found. The so-called ‘novel nutritional intervention’ was fed to medal hopefuls during competition despite only … Read more
British Olympians were used as guinea pigs to test an experimental substance in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money in a bid to enhance their performance at London 2012, an MoS investigation has found. The so-called ‘novel nutritional intervention’ was fed to medal hopefuls during competition despite only … Read more
Lance Armstrong’s former team-mate Tyler Hamilton has cast doubts over whether the disgraced former cyclist is telling the whole truth in his new documentary and insists he is still keeping secrets about his doping past. Hamilton himself is a serial doping cheat, his final eight-year ban effectively ending his own career, and he insists that Armstrong … Read more
Footballers are warned they risk DEATH by mixing sleeping pills with alcohol – with one star ‘seeking professional help’ after growing addicted to Premier League players’ ‘new party drug of choice’ Players have been warned of potentially fatal dangers of the combination of sleeping pills and alcohol, which produces a legal high A Premier League … Read more
Lance Armstrong has admitted he thinks doping might have caused his testicular cancer and also revealed that he was a drugs cheat from the age of 21. The disgraced former cycling superstar was finally caught nineteen years later, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and he eventually admitted to doping the following year … Read more
UK Anti-Doping are poised to open a new investigation into Tyson Fury and his cousin Hughie Fury after explosive allegations that a member of their team offered a farmer £25,000 to lie about how they each failed a drugs test in 2015. While the national doping watchdog is remaining tight-lipped, Sportsmail understands they are set … Read more
When British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury stopped Deontay Wilder last month to become the WBC champion of the world, it was regarded as one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history. Mired by admissions of cocaine use, allegations of homophobia and battles with mental illness, Fury’s victory was hailed not merely as a supreme display … Read more