Drug testers will alter how they test for the endurance drug EPO after a World Anti-Doping Agency review prompted by Australian Olympian Peter Bol’s case.
He’s been wrongly accused,temporarily banned,and sidelined by a pesky hamstring injury. But Peter Bol is not only “thrilled” to be back on the Australian team for Paris 2024;he also sent a warning that he is there to win gold.
Days after her 19th birthday,Claudia Hollingsworth was among the first track and field athletes named on Australia’s team for the Paris Olympics.
In a Stawell Gift remarkable for even starting,let alone finishing,Jack Lacey has won the men’s final for 2024 and Chloe Mannix-Power the women’s at a waterlogged track where races were delayed and abandoned as wild weather hit.
After a turbulent 18 months,800m runner Peter Bol has reconsidered ideas of retirement after Paris 2024 and is now more driven than ever to race for Australia.
Peter Bol made his comeback in Budapest after having his career derailed by a doping debacle,but he failed to qualify for the 800m semis. In a small consolation,doping authorities admitted his case had been a disaster.
Here are the headline acts to watch as the Australian team aims for global glory,with the next Olympics in Paris less than a year away.
Scientists say Peter Bol was lucky the same World Anti-Doping Agency laboratories that got it wrong with his first doping sample did not test his second one.
While Peter Bol was fighting to clear his name,his longtime housemate quietly broke the Olympic hero’s national record. Again.
The Wallabies coach and Tony Soprano might have more in common than many of us think.
Confidence in Australia’s anti-doping processes have been shattered after the treatment of middle-distance runner Peter Bol.