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"Brian Cookson, the International Cycling Union (UCI) presidential hopeful, has vowed that if he is elected, he will offer cyclists an amnesty should they come clean about doping. British Cycling president Cookson is challenging incumbent UCI head Pat McQuaid for the presidency in next week's elections in Florence, during the World Championships."

"National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), a U.K. government body that provides guidance on health services, has urged gyms to offer needles to people who inject anabolic androgenic steroids. It also urged gyms to provide needles to those injecting tanning drugs so that the risk of contracting blood-borne viruses can be reduced."

"The doping ban on cyclist Michael Rasmussen has been reduced to two years from eight years, according to an announcement by Danish sport officials. This reduction was facilitated after the Danish cyclist offered "substantial assistance" to the anti-doping authority that has opened up many other cases."