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"Tour de France 2013 winner Chris Froome has remarked that drug cheats in cycling should be given life bans. The Team Sky rider believes harsher sanctions still need to be handed down to anyone testing positive for drugs and remarked the sport has now moved on from past scandals."

"Sir Craig Reedie has replaced the departing John Fahey as the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) president."

"Long distance runner Devis Licciardi has been summoned to a hearing by the Italian Olympic Committee after reports that he used a "fake penis" to beat a doping test."

"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has remarked that he has many times asked UEFA, the European governing body of football, to consider using blood tests for finding cheaters in football."

"Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a DNA test to catch athletes who use blood doping to enhance their performance, but its limitations mean the current testing system will continue to detect cheaters."

"Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, has remarked there is tremendous pressure on athletes and business leaders to do whatever it takes to win, including cheating."

"And many of those that do come back positive are for recreational drugs with negligible performance-enhancing effects, like cannabis. There are some in the anti-doping industry - and it is now an industry - who wonder why, if the point is to stop cheats, we bother testing for drugs that are deemed not to enhance performance. And when it costs £65,000 for each positive, there are those who wonder why we bother testing for drugs at all."

"Britain's Chris Froome is set to win the 100th Tour de France on Sunday. However, he has been forced to respond to questions about doping, following revelations over Lance Armstrong and other former Tour de France giants who used drugs in the 90s and 2000s. Froome told BBC Sport: "I've also believed in people who have turned out to be cheats and liars. But I can assure you, I'm not.""

"The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has remarked that the credibility of track and field's anti-doping program has been "enhanced, not diminished" after sprinters Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell tested positive for banned substances. "I am not now - nor have I ever been - a cheat," Powell posted on Twitter. Olympic gold medalist Sherone Simpson, who tested positive for the same stimulant oxilofrine, said she "would not intentionally take an illegal substance of any form into my system.""

"Asbel Kiprop has pledged to support the decision by the IAAF to impose doping bans of four years on doping cheats, starting in 2015."

"The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency has remarked that football must do more to combat drugs cheats."