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"The International Wrestling Federation has announced that Iran's world champion Amir Aziz Ali Akbari, who won the 120 kg-weight class title in September in Hungary, has been banned for life after a second doping offense."

"Testing positive for three separate banned products at the US masters' road national championships on September 6th, the 62 year old amateur David LeDuc has been handed a two year suspension by the US Anti Doping Agency. "

"The Turkish Athletic Federation has announced that two-time European 100 meters hurdles champion Nevin Yanit has been banned from competing for two years for doping offences."

"Fenerbahce of Turkey have had their request for Champions League expulsion rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that upheld the ban of two years imposed by UEFA from European competition over a much-publicized match-fixing scandal."

"Anna Meares, Australia's champion cyclist, has expressed her disappointment about the positive test of Michael Rogers to Clenbuterol."

"A record 1,974 athletes from 206 countries have entered the 47 events in Moscow, but doping and injuries have deprived the year's biggest single sports event of several top attractions. Germany is sending 67 athletes and is hoping to do well right at the start of the competition in the decathlon. "To win a medal right at the start would be a great beginning," said Clemens Prokop, president of the German athletics federation (DLV), with European decathlon champion Pascal Behrenbruch in mind."

"Sorry, Lance, but for Greg LeMond it really is all about the bike. LeMond, a three-time Tour de France champion, regaled a Portland crowd of 750 cycling enthusiasts with stories of epic Tour de France battles, his feud with Lance Armstrong over doping, and his own physical struggles to overcome being shot. LeMond spoke Wednesday at the Portland Art Museum as part of the "Cyclepedia" exhibit."

"Bulgarian sprint champion Tezdzhan Naimova was banned for life and ordered to hand back her 2013 European gold medal after failing a dope test, the Bulgarian athletics federation said Tuesday. Naimova, 26, tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid Drostanolone at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in March, where she won the 60m title."

"The world governing body of football is creating blood and urine profiles of the world's top players with unannounced visits by an anti-doping team to clubs like Champions League winner Bayern Munich. This is done to ensure that the stars are under scrutiny ahead of next year's football World Cup."

"US rider Chris Horner who became the oldest cyclist to win the Vuelta a España, has missed a random doping test after the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency (AEPSAD) officials went to a wrong hotel looking for the newly crowned Vuelta a España champion, according to his team RadioShack."

"Cycling Australia (CA) wants no mercy for respected cyclist Michael Rogers if he is found guilty of doping. The three-time world time trial champion and 2004 Olympic bronze medallist tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol at his last race of the season, the October 20 Japan Cup."

"Australia's three-time world time-trial champion Michael Rogers and Belgian Jonathan Breyne have been provisionally suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI) over doping offenses, according to an announcement by the world governing body of cycling."

"According to a new study, more than $1 million worth of heart attacks, strokes, and hospitalizations for other reasons were avoided by 1,000 Scotsmen aged in their 40s through 60s who had taken cholesterol-lowering statins for five years."