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"Lance Armstrong's trophy case is a little emptier today. The disgraced cyclist, who admitted earlier this year to doping throughout his career, tweeted this week that he had given back the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia."

"Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson has remarked that drugs are a concern across the board, not just in sports. The sprinter was disqualified from the Seoul Olympics after he failed to clear a drug test after his gold medal win in the 100 meters."

"The sporting world's latest doping bombshell landed last weekend, as sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson of Jamaica and American Tyson Gay all tested positive for banned drugs. It was a jarring blow to track and field, tarnishing two of the four fastest men ever to run the 100-metre dash and a woman with three Olympic medals."

"A record 1,974 athletes from 206 countries have entered the 47 events in Moscow, but doping and injuries have deprived the year's biggest single sports event of several top attractions. Germany is sending 67 athletes and is hoping to do well right at the start of the competition in the decathlon. "To win a medal right at the start would be a great beginning," said Clemens Prokop, president of the German athletics federation (DLV), with European decathlon champion Pascal Behrenbruch in mind."

"Bulgarian sprint champion Tezdzhan Naimova was banned for life and ordered to hand back her 2013 European gold medal after failing a dope test, the Bulgarian athletics federation said Tuesday. Naimova, 26, tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid Drostanolone at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in March, where she won the 60m title."