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

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