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  • July 2008

    • Key Olympic Drug Test Could Be Unreliable

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jul 22, 08 2:11 PM CDT

      Key Olympic Drug Test Could Be Unreliable

      Labs that test athletes for evidence of doping could be letting cheaters slip through, the BBC reports. Negative results for samples an anti-doping scientist deems suspicious have raised doubts about the fairness of the field at next month's Olympic Games. With some versions of a blood-boosting drug available cheaply and nearly undetectable, experts fear many endurance athletes will cheat. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • sports doping  • World Anti Doping Agency  • blood tests

  • June 2008

    • Landis Can't Overturn Ban

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jun 30, 08 12:23 PM CDT

      Landis Can't Overturn Ban

      Cyclist Floyd Landis lost perhaps his final chance to keep his 2006 Tour de France title today, the AP reports, with a key panel upholding a 2-year doping ban. The three-person Court of Arbitration for Sport said Landis’ drug test was the product of “less than ideal laboratory practices, but not lies, fraud, forgery or cover-ups” as the American claimed. More »

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      performance-enhancing drugs  • Tour de France  • testosterone  • World Anti Doping Agency  • Floyd Landis  • Court of Arbitration for Sport

    • Clemens Used Viagra for On-Field Boost

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Jun 10, 08 11:10 AM CDT

      Clemens Used Viagra for On-Field Boost

      Roger Clemens was on at least one performance enhancing drug, a clubhouse source tells the New York Daily News : Viagra. Clemens wasn’t using Vitamin V to help with the ladies, he—and several of his teammates—were using it to improve his on-field performance. Viagra has become a major fad among athletes, because of its ability to improve endurance and deliver nutrients to muscles. More »

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      baseball  • Roger Clemens  • performance-enhancing drugs  • Viagra  • World Anti Doping Agency

  • April 2008

    • Baseball Owners, Players Toughen Drug Policy

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 12, 08 8:54 AM CDT

      Baseball Owners, Players Toughen Drug Policy

      Clubs and players agreed yesterday to toughen Major League Baseball's anti-doping policy, the AP reports. Players will be tested more frequently without notice, and the game's outside administrator—a position created in 2005 to oversee testing—will get more authority. As part of the deal, all of the players named in the Mitchell Report have been given amnesty. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • steroids  • Mitchell Report  • performance-enhancing drugs  • Bud Selig  • Jose Guillen  • doping  • World Anti Doping Agency  • Jay Gibbons

  • November 2007

    • Need an Edge? Try Performance Enhancing Placebos

      newser  |  Economist  |  Nov 2, 07 7:36 AM CDT

      Need an Edge? Try Performance Enhancing Placebos

      If there’s nothing actually illegal in your steroid injection, is it still cheating? Placebos, long one of medicine’s top tools, can act as performance enhancing drugs, a new study has proven. The study pitted athletic young men against each other in a pain-endurance contest. Those given a morphine placebo won handily. Of course, the athletes have to believe they’re actually cheating. More »

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      athlete  • performance-enhancing drugs  • World Anti Doping Agency  • placebos

  • October 2007

    • New Drugs Will Heal Muscles, Abet Cheating

      newser  |  MIT Technology Review  |  Oct 26, 07 8:43 AM CDT

      New Drugs Will Heal Muscles, Abet Cheating

      Scientists are currently testing two new classes of drugs designed to combat muscle-wasting diseases, but one organization isn't too excited: the World Anti-Doping Agency. Even though the treatments aren't yet commercially available, the Swiss-based organization that combats cheating in sports has banned them and is developing new detection methods, reports the MIT Technology Review . More »

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      sports doping  • World Anti Doping Agency

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