2026 World Cup: Eight players return positive results in doping tests

Tunisia’s poor outing at the 2026 World Cup took a fresh twist, after several of players – including some who ply their trade in the UK – showed traces of a banned drug in doping tests.
Daily Mail Sport reports that at least eight players in the Carthage Eagles squad returned atypical findings for clenbuterol.
Clenbuterol is a drug which relaxes airways in the lungs and has been included in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s forbidden list.
However, the doping officials have determined that the presence of the drug is very likely due to contamination rather than performance-enhancing reasons.
The source of the clenbuterol is believed to be from the meat the Tunisian squad ate while st...