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"Sydney Roosters general manager Brian Canavan said on Wednesday that his players were tested for human growth hormone without the consent of club officials and staff. Confirming he had severed ties with the weight loss and nutritional company Nubodi earlier this year he said the Roosters had been disturbed to discover that his players were tested for the levels of HGH in their blood during the firm's brief association with the club."

"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."

"Banned 400m runner Dominique Blake is all set to challenge her suspension of six years that was imposed by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel which resulted from a positive test for methylhexanamine at last year's Olympic Trials."

"The Russian drug-testing lab for February's Winter Olympics in Sochi faces suspension unless it significantly improves the reliability of its results by Dec. 1. The World Anti-Doping Agency has provisionally suspended the Moscow Antidoping Center on Sunday, saying its operations must improve or a six-month ban on the facility's accreditation will be imposed."

"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."

"World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey is all set to introduce changes to the anti-doping code that would result in the NRL and AFL being forced to act against coaches and support staff who use banned substances for their players."

" Roger Federer said he trusts the anti-doping procedures in tennis despite rival Novak Djokovic's claim that fellow Serb's Victor Troicki's one-year ban was the result of negligence by the authorities."