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"Lance Armstrong is facing a lawsuit claiming he defrauded team sponsor US Postal Service out of millions of dollars. Armstrong's lawyers have fired back, claiming the government shouldn't collect because it should have seen all those media reports about Armstrong doping."

"UCI president, Pat McQuaid, believes it was because of him that the world of cycling is a doping-free world. The embattled president of the world cycling body recently remarked that he is part of the "new guard" in the sport."

"British distance running star Mo Farah has rejected suspicions that his startling form is down to drugs, saying that it was solely hard work that got him atop the podiums at the London Olympics and Moscow world chamionships."

"Former UCI president Hein Verbruggen has hit back at doping cover-up claims made by Lance Armstrong and said his own reputation is being destroyed."

"Team Sky has released his performance data from six races, including this Tour. The team of Tour de France leader Chris Froome did this to dispel suspicions of doping."

"Dr Paul Wright told the BBC that the Caribbean island's anti-doping regime had been woefully short of the international standards required. His comments come a week after the World Anti-Doping Agency visited Jamaica to investigate claims that the country's athletes were not being tested rigorously enough."

"Scientists from the Houston Methodist Research Institute have claimed to be just ready with a technology that would someday be the first blood test for the early detection of breast cancer was shown in preliminary studies to successfully identify the presence of breast cancer cells from serum biomarkers."

" Roger Federer said he trusts the anti-doping procedures in tennis despite rival Novak Djokovic's claim that fellow Serb's Victor Troicki's one-year ban was the result of negligence by the authorities."