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"PARIS - Chris Froome, crowned the Tour de France winner on Sunday, was being peppered at a recent news conference with questions that furtively nibbled at a bigger issue - have you doped? - when his team director leapt into the fray, bubbling with frustration."

"Men who exercise vigorously as young adults may reduce their risk of developing epilepsy later in life, according to a new research. The study is published in the September 4, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology."

"In the face of explosive drug allegations, Canada's top cycling star, Ryder Hesjedal, came clean on Wednesday. In a statement issued after a former Danish cyclist exposed him, Hesjedal admitted to "mistakes" and apologized for "my part in the dark past of the sport.""

"Kenya faces censure from the World Anti-Doping Agency  (Wada) for failing to carry out a full inquiry into the alarming surge in the number of their athletes caught taking banned drugs."

"The government of Malawai has intensified the battle against doping in sports through a training of close to 30 sports administrators and some health experts in anti-doping issues, and credit for this goes to sports implementing body National Council of Sports and the Malawi Olympic Committee (Moc)."

"Endurance racing could be made illegal if action is not taken to solve doping and horse welfare issues, according to Belgian coach and FEI committee member Pierre Arnould."