Olympic Games

VOW Nutrition collaborates with Team GB ahead of 2024 Olympic games

21-Aug-2023 By Olivia Brown

Sports nutrition brand VOW Nutrition has collaborated with Team GB as the Official Nutrition Licensee ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic games and is set to fuel the athletes with its range of nutritional supplements in the lead up to the games.

WADA eyes AI, big data analytics to fight illegal doping

01-Jun-2020 By Danielle Masterson

The pandemic has shut down in-person anti-doping testing in many countries, placing a renewed focus on artificial intelligence.

USADA leans on Zoom, Facetime to conduct virtual doping tests

17-Apr-2020 By Danielle Masterson

Like many taking their work online during the coronavirus pandemic, antidoping officials who collect urine and blood samples from athletes are conducting their work over Zoom and FaceTime.

Meiji eyes 30% growth in sports nutrition business as Tokyo Olympics draws near

18-Feb-2020 By Guan Yu Lim

Meiji is aiming for a 30% growth in sales of its sports nutrition products this year, with the firm hoping to capitalise on the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics.

London Olympics 2012: DMAA responsible for 1 of 8 doping violations

14-Aug-2012 By Shane Starling

Controversial stimulant DMAA – the substance that has caused more doping violations in recent years than any other including blood boosters and steroids – was responsible for just one violation during the 2012 London Olympics.

Slate magazine tells athletes: “Stop taking supplements”

02-Aug-2012 By Shane Starling

Athletes should avoid taking food supplements because they are overpriced, don’t boost performance and could provoke doping violations, an article in online daily news site, Slate, has said.

Industry hopes Olympics will torch supplement contamination concerns

21-Jun-2012 By Shane STARLING

The Olympic Games have in the past brought the food supplements industry to the edge of its collective seat – but not necessarily in fevered anticipation of the world-class sporting fare on offer as anti-doping scrutiny has raised contamination issues.

Beijing Olympic Games clean-up a dirty business

10-Nov-2008

This year’s Beijing Olympic Games may have been good for China’s public image but the smooth running of the event was built on multiple state-prompted sacrifices and the food ingredients industry was one of the lambs that copped it in the neck for ‘the...

Dietary supplements win Olympic gold

15-Sep-2008

To coin a phrase oft-used by winning athletes, Beijing was 'a good games’ for an increasingly mature dietary supplements industry.

Olympic ideals raise bar on supplements contamination

08-Apr-2008 By Shane Starling

Greece's Olympic weightlifting team is blaming contaminated
Chinese-made food supplements for some of its members being charged
with doping violations.

Probiotic and protein push for Dutch athletes

03-Aug-2007 By Alex McNally

DSM hopes two ingredients can be used by Dutch athletes to beat
high temperatures and humidity as they train for next year's
Olympics in Beijing.

GSK to provide safe supplements for tennis players

18-Nov-2004

Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline is to produce nutritional
supplements for the ATP, the governing body for men's tennis, under
a new scheme designed to limit the risk of supplements causing
tennis players to test positive.

Hurdles for sports beverage industry

16-Aug-2004

As the 2004 Olympic Games get under way, Philippa Nuttall
speaks to Frost & Sullivan's Savithri Ramalinga, about the
challenges facing the sports beverage industry in North America.

'Safe' sports supplements launched

13-Feb-2002

US company Nutravail has created a line of supplements which it
claims are guaranteed free of substances banned by the
International Olympic Committee.

Athletes warned to avoid dietary supplements

31-Oct-2001

U.S. athletes were warned recently by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
to avoid dietary supplements offered at training centres before the
Salt Lake City Olympics.