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"Allegations of widespread doping, animal cruelty and collusion in Australia's multi-billion-dollar greyhound racing industry have been uncovered by a 7.30 investigation. Australia's greyhound industry is the third biggest in the world, and each year Australians wager about $3 billion on the sport."

"Australia's multi-billion-dollar greyhound industry has been hit by allegations of widespread doping, animal cruelty, and collusion."

"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."

"The booming fitness supplement industry is a minefield for New Zealand youngsters looking at a career in sport, experts say. Auckland College Sport chief executive Manoj Daji says better education about performance enhancing drugs is needed at the grassroots level."

"On Thursday morning, representatives of the horse-racing industry told Congress that thoroughbred racing's drug problem was a myth. On Thursday afternoon, a report by the California Horse Racing Board revealed that Bob Baffert, a Hall of Fame trainer, had been giving every horse in his barn a thyroid hormone without ever checking to see if any of them had thyroid problems."