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  • July 2008
    • Without Doping, Where's the Fun?

      Without Doping, Where's the Fun?

      (Newser) - Doping in sports makes some fans uncomfortable, but it keeps others on the edges of their seats, writes Joel Stein in the LA Times . Case in point: This year's largely shenanigans-free Tour de France has been an exercise in boredom. “Before you argue that your favorite sport has to get tough about drugs,” Stein writes, brace yourself for “years of slow, amateurish, uninspired athleticism.” More »

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      performance-enhancing drugs   drug use   Tour de France   cycling   drugs in sports

    • New Doping Scandal Taints Tour de France

      New Doping Scandal Taints Tour de France

      (AP) - Just when the race was getting interesting at the Tour de France, another doping scandal erupted. The 11th-stage victory today by Norwegian veteran Kurt-Asle Arvesen took a back seat to the arrest of Spain's Moises Duenas Nevado after he tested positive for the banned performance enhancer EPO in the second doping bust this Tour. More »

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      France   Tour de France   bicycling   drugs in sports

    • Olympians Adjust to Tougher Drug Tests

      Olympians Adjust to Tougher Drug Tests

      (Newser) - Many US professional athletes aren't accustomed to giving blood and urine samples during their off seasons, but with the Olympics approaching, that's all been changing, writes USA Today . The US Anti-Doping Agency requires all potential competitors to comply with a "whereabouts program" and submit to random screenings for HGH and illegal blood transfusions. More »

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      baseball   basketball   2008 Beijing Olympics   soccer   human growth hormone   sports doping   drugs in sports   blood tests   USADA

  • May 2008
    • BALCO Jury Convicts Track's Graham of Lying

      BALCO Jury Convicts Track's Graham of Lying

      (Newser) - A San Francisco jury convicted track coach Trevor Graham today of lying to federal investigators when he told them he had ended his contacts with a steroids dealer, the Chronicle reports. Jurors deadlocked on two other counts against the former coach of Olympians Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery; he faces up to 5 years at a September sentencing. More »

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      steroids   Barry Bonds   track and field   Marion Jones   BALCO   drugs in sports   Trevor Graham   Tim Montgomery

    • Early Retirement Raises Questions

      Early Retirement Raises Questions

      (Newser) - When a 25-year-old tennis star quits at the top of her sport, at least one columnist thinks it's tough not to wonder if drugs were somehow involved. That's Rick Morrissey's reaction to Justine Henin's abrupt retirement this week. Henin has no link to drugs, but in the current sports world of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, anything out of the ordinary raises eyebrows, Morrisey writes. More »

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      tennis   women's tennis   Justine Henin   Martina Hingis   drugs in sports

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