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Posted on July 21, 2016

What Would Happen if the Olympics Banned Russia?

What Would Happen if the Olympics Banned Russia?
Because the Olympics are always political, and state-sponsored doping sure is too. The post What Would Happen if the Olympics Banned Russia? appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on June 30, 2016

It’ll Be Really Hard to Test for Doping at the Rio Olympics

It’ll Be Really Hard to Test for Doping at the Rio Olympics
Now that Rio's anti-doping lab is suspended, Olympics organizers might have to take athletes' samples somewhere else. The post It’ll Be Really Hard to Test for Doping at the Rio Olympics appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on March 8, 2016

The Quirky History of Meldonium, From a Latvian Lab to Maria Sharapova

The Quirky History of Meldonium, From a Latvian Lab to Maria Sharapova
The metabolism-enhancing drug tennis star Maria Sharapova just copped to has a weird biography. The post The Quirky History of Meldonium, From a Latvian Lab to Maria Sharapova appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on October 7, 2015

The Tech-Powered Training That’s Forging Superathletes

The Tech-Powered Training That’s Forging Superathletes

How a San Francisco-area laboratory turned Jeremy Lin, Jason Castro, Teresa Noyola, and others into top athletes.

The post The Tech-Powered Training That’s Forging Superathletes appeared first on WIRED.

Posted on September 12, 2015

The Mind-Bending Physics of a Tennis Ball’s Spin

The Mind-Bending Physics of a Tennis Ball’s Spin

How tennis players create spin is about as complicated a physics question you can set about solving without invoking subatomic particles.

The post The Mind-Bending Physics of a Tennis Ball’s Spin appeared first on WIRED.

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