U.S. charges therapist with giving performance enhancing drugs to athletes for Tokyo Olympics

Man charged with supplying performance-enhancing drugs at Tokyo Games

US prosecutors allege Eric Lira supplied illegal drugs to athletes "for the purpose of corrupting" the Tokyo Games.

US Charges Man With Giving Illegal Drugs to Athletes for Tokyo Olympics

U.S. prosecutors have charged a man with supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes at the Tokyo Olympics, a first under a federal law allowing criminal charges against doping conspirators at events involving U.S. athletes, broadcasters and sponsors.  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan said Eric Lira, 41, distributed drugs, including human growth hormone, "for the purpose of corrupting" the Tokyo Games.  Lira obtained misbranded vers…

US charges therapist with giving drugs to athletes for Tokyo Olympics

US prosecutors have charged a Texas therapist with distributing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes participating in the Olympic Games held in Tokyo last summer.

Texas man criminally charged for allegedly supplying Olympians with performance-enhancing drugs

The criminal charges are the first ever filed under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act enacted in 2020.

Man charged with giving Olympic athletes performance drugs

U.S. prosecutors charged a Texas man on Wednesday with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes competing in last summer's Olympics in Tokyo, including the star Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare.

Texas man charged with providing performance-enhancing drugs to 2020 Olympians

Eric Lira is the first person to be charged under the provisions of the Rodchenkov Act.