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InShort A survey is aiming to discover more about the use of performance and imageenhancing drugs.
A NATURAL bodybuilder is urging people to take part in a confidential survey about performance and imageenhancing drug use.
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REFEREES in Scotland face being drug-tested in the same manner as players.Medical experts from world football's governing body, Fifa, want whistlers t...
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SWIMMING sensation Ye Shiwen smashed another Olympic record to win her second gold last night - then hit back at suggestions she might be taking performance-enhancing drugs.
More than 1.5million Twitter users in China attacked 'smears' linking her to doping while her father also attacked the 'arrogant' West over the insinuations.
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HAPPY AS LARRY: Tony Cascarino, enjoying a pint of plain below, celebrates the Italia 90 shoot-out victory over Romania, left, with Packie Bonner and Andy Townsend HAPPY AS LARRY: Tony Cascarino, enjoying a pint of plain below, celebrates the Italia 90 shoot-out victory over Romania, left, with Packie Bonner and Andy Townsend WHEN YOU account for his early ambitions to be a hairdresser, his spell at Millwall, the fact he was sold to Gillingham for a set of tracksuits, his two families, his French alter ego Tony Goal, his admission to taking performance-enhancing drugs at Marseille, his brief spell as a "fake Irishman", his December 2008 arrest for assault, his career as a semi-pro poker player, the Welsh band who sing about him and his 88 caps, it's fair to say that Anthony Guy Cascarin...
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HERO. Villain. Prodigy. Pariah. Over the past decade, Scottish cyclist David Millar has heard them all. Now a sole word occupies his thoughts: redemption.
Millar's story is one which has polarised the cycling world. Seven years ago he was arrested in Biarritz on suspicion of using illegal performance enhancing drugs. In less than 24 hours, Millar - crowned world time trial champion in 2003 - went from golden boy to liar and drugs cheat, caught red-handed by French police who discovered two syringes hidden at his home.
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AMIR KHAN'S world title rematch in Las Vegas next week was being called off overnight following a sensational admission by Lamont Peterson that he used performance-enhancing drugs before and during their controversial fight in Washington DC.
The cancellation became inevitable despite sympathy for the thousands of British fans who have pre-paid flight and hotel packages to support Khan in what should have been his bid to regain his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles.
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Lance Armstrong was spot on when he named his autobiography "It's Not About the Bike". As it turns out, it was about the drugs. The rumours about him taking performance-enhancing drugs have been circulating for well over a decade, and it had been all but confirmed that an admission of guilt would be forthcoming in his interview with Oprah Winfrey last week. Nevertheless, it was still fascinating to hear it directly from the horse's mouth.
In his first interview since being stripped of all seven of his Tour de France victories, which spanned from 1999 to 2005, Armstrong admitted to doping during every one of them. He admitted to taking EPO, testosterone, cortisone, human growth hormone and having blood transfusions. His confession is even more momentous when you consider that Armstrong w...
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DRUG cheats still prospered at London 2012 despite an unprecedented testing programme because Olympic sports still 'lag way behind' in the fight against doping, according to one of the most-respected antidoping experts, Dick Pound. His comments came as Belarus shot putter Nadezhda Ostapchuk was stripped of her gold medal for using steroids -- the first medallist exposed as a cheat during the London Games -- and US middle-distance runner Shannon Rowbury backed Britain's 1500m finalist Lisa Dobriskey in her claim that drug cheats had tainted the Games. 'We're lagging way behind,' said Pound, who was chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency from its formation in 1999 to 2007.
'We know that with all the tests we're doing, 1.5-1.6 per cent of them are positive. There are far more people out ...
...They don't care sports-performance wise.' Dobriskey and Rowbury's complaints came aft...There are far more people using drugs than we are catching DICK POUND Ex-WADA chief. Cop...
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ONE OF my earliest sporting memories was watching Ben Johnson storm to victory in the 100m sprint at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
Ultimately he was proven to have used drugs to aid his performance. He was a cheat.
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DRUG cheats still prospered at London 2012 despite an unprecedented testing programme because Olympic sports still 'lag way behind' in the fight against doping, according to one of the most-respected antidoping experts, Dick Pound. His comments came as Belarus shot putter Nadezhda Ostapchuk was stripped of her gold medal for using steroids -- the first medallist exposed as a cheat during the London Games -- and US middle-distance runner Shannon Rowbury backed Britain's 1500m finalist Lisa Dobriskey in her claim that drug cheats had tainted the Games. 'We're lagging way behind,' said Pound, who was chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency from its formation in 1999 to 2007.
'We know that with all the tests we're doing, 1.5-1.6 per cent of them are positive. There are far more people out ...
...They don't care sports-performance wise.' Dobriskey and Rowbury's complaints came aft...There are far more people using drugs than we are catching DICK POUND Ex-WADA chief. Cop...