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"The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has remarked that the credibility of track and field's anti-doping program has been "enhanced, not diminished" after sprinters Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell tested positive for banned substances. "I am not now - nor have I ever been - a cheat," Powell posted on Twitter. Olympic gold medalist Sherone Simpson, who tested positive for the same stimulant oxilofrine, said she "would not intentionally take an illegal substance of any form into my system.""

"The local organizing committee of the 2014 FIFA World Cup has struck a deal with authorities in Switzerland for outsourcing part of the anti-doping program for the showpiece event."

"Feliciano Lopez of Spain, the World No. 28, has blasted the anti-doping programs of tennis."

"In a series of interviews in recent days, one of Alex Rodriguez's attorneys said he would like nothing more than to discuss Major League Baseball's case against the Yankees slugger, if only the league would free him from a confidentiality clause built into the league's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program."

"World number two Novak Djokovic has slammed tennis's anti-doping program after his fellow Viktor Troicki was banned for missing a drugs test."

"The World Anti-Doping Agency has provisionally suspended a Russia's anti-doping laboratory and given it a deadline of December 1 to improve the reliability of its results. Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee has guaranteed the "integrity" of the drug-testing program at the Sochi Winter Olympics."

"However, those years of unparalleled success on the road and manipulation of the legal system could cost the man who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles a large proportion of his estate. It is a year since the US ­Anti-Doping Agency published its 202-page report into what its chief executive, Travis Tygart, described as the "most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen"."

"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."