iRunFar’s policy on doping and athlete coverage has two main prongs. Athletes who have received a negative judgment from an internationally recognized anti-doping agency in connection with using a prohibited substance in sport:
- Will receive only basic coverage on iRunFar.
- Will have their prior negative judgments shared in that coverage.
This means that athletes with prior negative judgments will be mentioned as their performances warrant it on iRunFar, but iRunFar will minimize additional coverage of those athletes through interviews, feature articles, and more. This also means that prior negative judgments will be disclosed in iRunFar articles that mention those athletes.
We have developed this specific policy for several reasons:
- We stand behind the World Anti-Doping Agency’s, as well as national anti-doping agencies’, processes for sanctioning and then allowing athletes to return to sport.
- We believe that information access is an important part of the conversation about doping in sport. We thus feel that information about athletes who have received negative judgments should remain publicly available when they are competing.
- We believe negative doping judgments are violations of the spirit of sport and the other athletes competing. We support the freedom individual entities, such as races, publications, and brands, have to develop their own policies regarding how they will interact with athletes who have received negative judgments. iRunFar’s policy has been developed after thoughtful consideration of how iRunFar can help do its part to protect the spirit of the sport and to elevate clean, competitive athletics.
[Last updated, July 2026]
