List of doping cases in sport (L)

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Name	Country	Event	Banned substance(s)	Reference(s)
Raimonds Lācis	Latvia	Weightlifting	Furosemide	[1] (in Latvian)
Marina Lacroix	France	Swimming	Cannabis	[2]
Lee Lacy	United States	Baseball	Cocaine	[1]
Francisca Laia	Portugal	Canoeing	Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone	[3]
Juha Lallukka	Finland	Cross-country skiing	Growth hormone	[4]
Óscar Lagos	Honduras	Football (soccer)	Cocaine, marihuana	[5]
Bernard Lama	France	Football (soccer)	Cannabis	[6]
Eric Lamaze	Canada	Equestrian	Cocaine	[7]
Florin Lambagiu	Romania	Kickboxing	Winstrol,Turinabol,clostebol,meldonium	[8]
Abreu Lamec	Venezuela	Weightlifting	Stanozolol	[9]
Floyd Landis	United States	Cycling	Testosterone	[10]
Jeremy Landy	France	Water polo	Cannabis	[11]
Jose Langberg	Peru	Swimming	Cannabis	[12]
Dmitry Lapikov	Russia	Weightlifting	Methylhexaneamine	[9]
Konstantina Lapou	Greece	Weightlifting		[13]
Arnaud Laroche	France	Swimming	Testosterone	[14]
Simon Larose	Canada	Tennis	Cocaine	[15]
Mehrullah Lassi	Pakistan	Boxing	Cannabis	[16]
Rick Leach	United States	Baseball		[17] [18]
Pei-Lin Lee	Chinese Taipei	Weightlifting	Furosemide	[9]
Lassouani Leila	France	Weightlifting	Norandrosterone 4,9 ng/ml	[9]
Chun Leung Lau	Hong Kong	Swimming	Methandienone	[19]
Matt Lawton	United States	Baseball	Boldenone	[20]
Stan Lazaridis	Australia	Football (soccer)	Finasteride	[21]
Larisa Lazutina	Russia	Cross-country skiing	NESP	[22]
Fabien Le Bec	France	Water polo	Cannabis	[11]
Chris Leben	United States	Mixed martial arts	Stanozolol	[23] [24]
Luc Leblanc	France	Cycling	Erythropoietin (EPO) (self admitted)	[25]
Yann Lejuste	France	Water polo	cannabis	[26]
Rasa Leleivytė	Lithuania	Cycling	EPO	[27]
Benoit Lemeunier	France	Swimming	Cannabis	[28]
Kayle Leogrande	United States	Cycling	Erythropoietin (non-analytical positive)	[29]
Dimitru Leonard	Romania	Weightlifting	Norandrosterone	[9]
Jeffrey Leonard	United States	Baseball	Cocaine	[30]
Vladimir Leontiev	Russia	Swimming	Cannabis	[14]
Kimo Leopoldo	United States	Mixed martial arts	Stanozolol
Varvara Lepchenko	United States	Tennis	Meldonium (Provisionally suspended) Adrafinil, and metabolite modafinil (Suspended for four years)	[31] [32]
Stephen Letchford	England	Ten-pin bowling	Benzoylecgonine	[33]
Nick Leventis	England	Auto racing	Anabolic steroids	[34]
Nikita Leviakov	Russia	Swimming	Stanozolol, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone	[19]
Clayton Lewis	New Zealand	Football (soccer)	Salbutamol	[35]
Kristen Lewis	United States	Swimming	Pseudoephedrine	[36]
Rashard Lewis	United States	Basketball	Steroids (ten-game suspension)	[37]
Manukyan Liana	Armenia	Weightlifting	Metandienone	[9]
Yohan Lidon	France	Kickboxing, Muay Thai	Heptaminol	[38]
Semen Linder	Kazakhstan	Weightlifting	Stanozolol	[9]
Li Ning	China	Swimming		[36]
Li Zhesi	China	Swimming	EPO	[39]
Valiantsina Liakhavets	Belarus	Weightlifting		[9]
Rafael Liechti	Switzerland	Water polo	Cannabis	[40]
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall	Sweden	Modern pentathlon	Alcohol	[41]
Mads Lind	Denmark	Handball	Anabolic steroids	[42]
Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Spain	Tennis	Cocaine	[43]
Marina Lisogor	Ukraine	Cross-country skiing	Trimetazidine	[44] [45]
Yuliya Litvina	Kazakhstan	Swimming	Methylhexaneamine	[39]
Alexander Litvintchev	Russia	Rowing		[46]
Liu Bingyao	China	Swimming	Clenbuterol	[47]
Jing Liu	China	Swimming	Prednisone	[48]
Liu Xingchen	China	Swimming	Clenbuterol	[2]
Jake Livermore	England	Football (soccer)	Cocaine	[49]
Claudio Liverziani	Italy	Baseball	Amphetamines	[50]
Jose Llanos Quiceno	Colombia	Water polo	THC, Cannabis	[39]
Ryan Llewellyn	United Kingdom	Boxing	Methylhexaneamine	[51]
Lewis Lloyd	United States	Basketball	Cocaine	[52]
Paul Lo Duca	United States	Baseball	Steroids	(Admission of guilt) [53]
Aleh Loban	Belarus	Weightlifting	Metandienone	[9]
Romain Locher	France	Water polo	cannabis	[26]
Joshua Loges	Germany	Swimming	Clenbuterol	[2]
Héctor Lombard	Australia	Mixed martial arts (MMA)	Desoxymethyltestosterone	[54]
Boris Loncaric	Croatia	Swimming	Methylhexaneamine	[48]
Simos Loukas	Greece	Water polo	Methylphenidate	[55]
Paulo Da Silva Loureiro	Portugal	Volleyball	Cannabinoids	[56]
Sebastien Louveau	France	Swimming	Cannabis	[28]
Didi Louzada	United States	Basketball	Drostanolone, testosterone	[57]
Natalya Lovtsova	Russia	Swimming		[58]
Jake Lowther	United Kingdom	Motorcycling		[59]
Brenda Lozaique	Seychelles	Weightlifting	Metandienone	[9]
Miryan Lozi	Albania	Weightlifting		[9]
Lü Bin	China	Swimming		[60]
Lu Leyujia	China	Swimming	Drostanolone	[2]
Lu Meng	China	Wrestling	Diuretic	[61]
Frank Luck	Germany	Biathlon	Turinabol (self-admitted)	[62]
Lebron Luis	Puerto Rico	Weightlifting	Methylhexaneamine	[9]
Vladislav Lukanin	Russia	Weightlifting	Noraxondrolone, Epioxandrolone	[9]
Zach Lund	United States	Skeleton	Finasteride	[63]
Luo Meng	China	Wrestling	Diuretic	[61]
Zsolt Lutter	Hungary	Swimming	Refusal to submit to doping test	[48]
Evgeny Luzyanin	Russia	Rowing		[46]
Kerry Lynch	United States	Nordic combined	Blood doping	[64]

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