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"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."

"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."

"Suspended Jamaican 400 meters runner Dominique Blake is thinking on the lines of whether to take her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) after her appeal was turned down against her ban of six years for a second doping violation."

"The Russian Anti-Doping Agency said in a statement that the weightlifting federation of Russia has handed down two-year bans to four athletes."

"Suspended Jamaican 400 metres runner Dominique Blake is yet to decide if she will take her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) after her appeal was turned down against her six-year ban for a second doping violation."

"This is about as uncomfortable an interview as I have conducted. It is the early evening of one of the last days of our faded summer and I am sitting on a hilltop in Sussex, the South Downs stretching out before us, talking to Sean Yates, who is frank, weary in voice, but not even impolite when he says that he wishes we hadn't actually spoken."

"Viktor Troicki of Serbia who was banned for 18 months for missing a doping test expressed confidence that the ban will be turned down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne on 9 October."

"The entire board of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission and its chairman, Dr. Herb Elliot, has resigned, after World Anti-Doping Agency officials visited Jamaica to conduct what the nation's minister for sport called an "extraordinary audit." The board members will step down on December 31."

"FILE - Cloudy skies shroud the Capitol in Washington, Monday morning, Oct. 14, 2013 as Senate Democratic and Republican leaders remained at odds over spending in their last-ditch negotiations to end the government shutdown. At a time when many people say that the political system and societal institutions aren't working, the news in 2013 provided multiple sources of confirmation, both at home and abroad. It was the year when things broke down - or at least it often left many people feeling that way."

"Despite speculation last night the club would receive the 400-page report today, Bombers officials insisted this morning they had not been given a copy by either ASADA or the AFL. Speaking before training at Windy Hill - attended by about 500 Bombers fans - Hird was reluctant to divulge any information on the investigation."

"Bayern Munich defender Philipp Lahm has stressed that football should take the doping problem seriously, but believes performance enhancing drugs are less effective in football than in other sports. The likes of cycling and sprinting have been plagued by doping scandals in recent years and Lahm feels it would be wrong to think there is no use of prohibited substances in football."