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NEWS ABOUT: doping

doping stories: 19 news summaries

 Court Handcuffs NFL 
 on Drug Testing 

Says players are protected from suspension by state laws

Sep 19, 09 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal court has given the NFL—and, in fact, all sports leagues—a big headache in the effort to crack down on doping, the New York Times reports. A three-judge panel in Minneapolis made it much tougher for the league to suspend players caught using banned substances, ruling that... More »

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NFL • steroids • doping • Minnesota Vikings • drug test • sports doping

Retesting Nails 6 Olympic Drug Cheats

New technique
exposes athletes'
use of banned
blood booster

Apr 29, 09 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six Olympic drug cheats have been exposed long after the end of the 2008 Beijing Games, CNN reports. The IOC—which keeps test samples on file for eight years after events finish—rechecked 948 samples after a new test for a banned blood booster was developed. Silver medal-winning Italian cyclist... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • doping • drug test • Olympians • Olympic athletes • IOC • Davide Rebellin

Cycling Battles Doping With 'Biological Passports'

Blood profiling case could determine the future of antidoping 

Feb 28, 09 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - A landmark doping case being pursued by cycling authorities could help the sport pull ahead of the pack in the fight against performance-enhancing drugs, the New York Times reports. Cycling's governing body is preparing a case using blood profiles—or "biological passports"—that show telltale changes in the... More »

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Floyd Landis • cycling • doping • bicycling • sports doping • WADA • blood tests • World Anti-Doping Agency

 Armstrong 
 Fears Attack 
 on Tour Return 

It's 'tense and emotional' out there, says seven-time winner

Nov 18, 08 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Super cyclist Lance Armstrong fears a physical attack if he returns to race again in the Tour de France, reports the Independent. “There are some aggressive, angry emotions. My personal safety could be in jeopardy," said Armstrong, 37. French team directors "have encouraged people to take to... More »

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steroids • France • cycling • Tour de France • doping • Lance Armstrong • sports doping

(Newser) - Lance Armstrong will race in the three-week Giro d’Italia for the first time next year, but a return visit to the Tour de France is in doubt, the Telegraph reports. Armstrong, recently out of retirement, has historically clashed with Tour management, and his team was banned from this... More »

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cycling • retirement • Tour de France • doping • Lance Armstrong • Giro d'Italia

 Tour OKs Armstrong Return 

7-time American champ OK to ride in France next summer—as long as team stays clean

Sep 25, 08 11:56 AM CDT
(AP) - Lance Armstrong can return to the Tour de France in 2009 if his team avoids doping scandals, the race director said today after the seven-time champion confirmed his comeback with the Astana squad. The team was barred from this year's Tour because of doping problems in the past. “They... More »

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cancer • cycling • Tour de France • doping • Lance Armstrong • sports doping

OPINION

Let Athletes Use Genetic Doping

The only question should be one of
safety, not fairness

Aug 2, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Genetic therapy's potential to boost athletic performance has sports bodies worried, but fairness should not be an issue, the Economist opines. The luck of the genetic draw already gives some athletes an edge over their competitors, and the only question should be whether gene treatment is safe for the athletes.... More »

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genetics • 2008 Beijing Olympics • doping • sports doping • EPO

7 Russian Athletes Suspended for Doping

Female runners banned from Olympics

Jul 31, 08 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seven female athletes from Russia were suspended today for doping violations, a potentially devastating blow to the nation's medal hopes just a week before the Olympics begin, the New York Times reports. Five of the women, all members of Russia's track and field team, were scheduled to compete in the... More »

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Russia • 2008 Beijing Olympics • doping • suspension • IAAF • track and field

US Swimmer 'Tests Positive for Banned Substance'

Source: Jessica Hardy has failed pre-Olympics doping test

Jul 24, 08 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - American swimmer Jessica Hardy's Olympics may already be over. The 50-meter breaststroke world record holder has tested positive for a banned stimulant, insiders told the AP. Hardy has the right to pursue appeals, but if they fail she could face a 2-year ban and Team USA will suffer a major... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • swimming • doping • sports doping • USA Swimming • Jessica Hardy

Ex-Olympian Gets 46 Months for Check Fraud

Tim Montgomery, former 100m record holder, jailed

May 17, 08 6:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disgraced Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months yesterday for his part in a check-fraud scam, the Washington Post reports. Montgomery, who still faces heroin-dealing charges, once held the 100m world record but was stripped of it for doping. He has a son with Marion Jones, who... More »

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athlete • doping • track and field • Marion Jones • check fraud • Tim Montgomery

Baseball Owners, Players Toughen Drug Policy

They agree to more tests; players in Mitchell Report are spared

Apr 12, 08 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Mosley Knew
He Was Doping:
BALCO Chief 

Says boxing champ took steroids for
de la Hoya bout

Apr 9, 08 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shane Mosley was perfectly aware he had taken steroids before defeating Oscar de la Hoya in 2003, claims convicted steroid dealer Victor Conte. "He knew what he was taking and I told him that before he took it," BALCO founder Conte said. The prizefighter says he never knowingly... More »

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boxing • steroids • Oscar De La Hoya • Victor Conte • doping • BALCO • Shane Mosley

Jones Further Scrubbed From Olympics Books

Track star's medals formally revoked; she's banned from Beijing

Dec 12, 07 5:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Marion Jones had already returned the five medals—three gold, two bronze—she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; today, the International Olympic Committee made that disgrace official, formally stripping the admitted drug cheat of the hardware. "She is disqualified and scrapped from the results,” said the IOC... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • doping • Marion Jones • International Olympic Committee

Herbal Remedies Won't Compete at Beijing Games

Officials stress that athletes taking traditional medicines aren't doping

Dec 11, 07 2:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Chinese herbal medicines bear no resemblance to banned substances, say Beijing Olympics officials, but just in case, athletes won’t use them. "We know there is no relationship with doping and Chinese traditional medicine,” says one doctor, but because the remedies have not been used in previous Games,... More »

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sports • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • doping • sports doping • herbal medicine • Ma Junren

IOC Will Move Quickly to Strip Jones of Medals

100-meter gold may go to runner in another drug scandal

Oct 5, 07 2:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The International Olympic Committee announced today that it is ready to make a speedy move to strip Marion Jones of the three gold and two bronze medals she took home from the 2000 Sydney Games. Now that Jones has pled guilty, IOC vice-president Thomas Bach intends to "accelerate and... More »

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anabolic steroids • doping • track and field • Olympic Games • Marion Jones • BALCO • gold medal

Golf Groups Ban Drugs, Will Start Screening

PGA will implement its new anti-doping policy beginning next season

Sep 20, 07 4:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Finally catching up with other professional sports, major golf groups today announced new anti-doping policies, to be put into effect in 2008. Though the PGA Tour isn't adopting the World Anti-Doping Association list of banned substances, the AP reports, it has its own laundry list, which includes anabolic agents, hormones,... More »

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steroids • golf • drug use • doping • drug test

Landis Must Forfeit Tour Title

Disgraced champ's positive France tests upheld

Sep 20, 07 3:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cyclist Floyd Landis lost his doping case today, and must give up his 2006 Tour de France title after arbitrators voted to uphold test results showing Landis cheated during his victory. He was banned from cycling until 2009; short a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the... More »

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Floyd Landis • cycling • drug use • Tour de France • doping

Lance’s Team Bites the Dust

Biking outfit loses sponsorship amid
doping scandals

Aug 10, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lance Armstrong’s former cycling team is shutting down after failing to find a new corporate sponsor. The Discovery Channel squad would normally have no trouble staying afloat after one of its riders won the Tour de France this summer, the New York Times reports. But  doping scandals have... More »

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drug use • Tour de France • doping • Discovery Channel • Lance Armstrong • bicycling • Ivan Basso • scandal

Tour Leader Kicked Out by His Own Team

Race threatened as third rider cut in growing doping scandal

Jul 26, 07 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the latest blow to the Tour de France, race leader Michael Rasmussen was kicked out of the event yesterday by his own team for lying about his whereabouts during doping tests. Rasmussen was the third rider ejected in less than 48 hours as the rapidly mounting doping scandal threatened... More »

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Tour de France • Michael Rasmussen • doping

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