: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance
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increased efforts to detect doping at the Olympic Games
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The highest doping controls were in hockey, cross-country skiing, biathlon, speed skating and alpine skiing, the agency said.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Privacy laws typically prevent schools from making public statements about doping cases and the NCAA doesn't disclose test results.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Russian athletes are competing in the Winter Paralympics, with one alpine skier taking the country’s first gold since 2014; they were banned in 2018 over doping allegations, and then from almost all sporting events after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but Moscow won a legal appeal in January.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
This phase diagram, a chart showing how a material behaves as variables such as doping or temperature change, is crucial for understanding how superconductivity emerges.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
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Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Privacy laws typically prevent schools from making public statements about doping cases and the NCAA doesn't disclose test results.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Russian athletes are competing in the Winter Paralympics, with one alpine skier taking the country’s first gold since 2014; they were banned in 2018 over doping allegations, and then from almost all sporting events after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but Moscow won a legal appeal in January.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
This phase diagram, a chart showing how a material behaves as variables such as doping or temperature change, is crucial for understanding how superconductivity emerges.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
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doping
noun
dop·ing
ˈdō-piŋ 
: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to improve athletic performance and that is typically banned in competitive sports
… nearly two dozen athletes … have been banned from the Olympics in the last two weeks for doping violations.—Philip Hersh, The Chicago Tribune
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