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"For drug cheaters from countries like the United States and Britain, nations with well-funded and relatively efficient antidoping agencies, that means big trouble. Under the new World Anti-Doping Code, which would take effect in 2015, the ban for athletes who intentionally use performance-enhancing drugs will double, jumping to four years from two. That penalty ensures that any athlete whose deliberate doping leads to a positive test will miss an Olympic Games."

"The planet's heading powers will gather in Johannesburg from the 12-fifteenth November to handle one of the most excellent tests confronting game today: doping."

"The Australian Football League (AFL) has fined the Footscray Football Club, currently known as the Western Bulldogs, for breaching the player movement rules of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority during its recent training camp in the United States."

"Wide receiver Mac Morrison of Acton, a second-year member of the Guelph Gryphons' OUA football squad, has received a suspension of two years for an anti-doping rule violation."

"Cesar Puello, an outfielder who is currently on the New York Mets 40-man roster, has received a 50-game suspension for violating the drugs policy of Major League Baseball."

"Croatia's Marin Cilic has been suspended for nine months after testing positive for a banned stimulant. According to an announcement by the International Tennis Federation, the ban rules him out until 1 February 2014."

"The frontline in the battle against doping lies a long way from the floodlit stadiums in which athletes ply their trade. This is the world of dawn knocks waking reluctant athletes who start their day by weeing into a bottle in front of a stranger wearing plastic gloves and flourishing an anti-doping ID card."

"Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been banned from cycling for life after a third doping offence, an Italian Olympic Committee tribunal ruled on Thursday."

"The announcement comes on the same day Russian powerlifter Ilnar Latypov was given a two-year suspension for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation. Latypov's case follows several other recent doping scandals, including a failed test by London 2012 gold medallist Ivory Nwokorie of Nigeria."

"Months after a drug scandal in the UK highlighted anomalies in worldwide rules, anabolic steroids are to be banned in Australian horse racing. The Australian Racing Board (ARB) says its ban will take effect from 1 May 2014 and apply to all thoroughbreds from the age of six months."