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"According to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, Gregory Flood of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Frank Petrucci, of Warwick, N.Y., athletes in the sport of rowing, have both tested positive for a prohibited substance and have accepted a public warning and a loss of results because of the presence of a prohibited substance in their urine samples."

"Fenerbahce of Turkey have had their request for Champions League expulsion rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that upheld the ban of two years imposed by UEFA from European competition over a much-publicized match-fixing scandal."

"The world's fastest man said recently that the recent spate of doping scandals in athletics will damage the sport. Usain Bolt also remarked that he is running clean and positive tests of his countrymen won't affect his preparations for the upcoming world championships."

"Croatian Marin Cilic's announcement during Wimbledon that he was pulling out of the tournament due to a knee injury was to avoid "adverse publicity" from the fact he had failed a drugs test, the full findings of the case have revealed."

"Products containing methylhexaneamine need to be removed from the UK market after concerns of potential risks to public safety, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)."

"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."