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Andrew Davis

Battle Against Sports Doping Intensified By Malawi | Steroid-Use.com - 0 views

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    "The government of Malawai has intensified the battle against doping in sports through a training of close to 30 sports administrators and some health experts in anti-doping issues, and credit for this goes to sports implementing body National Council of Sports and the Malawi Olympic Committee (Moc)."
Andrew Davis

Dick Pound: Doping is widespread in sport | Mail Online - 0 views

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    "Dick Pound, the former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has admitted that the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has forced him to question 'everything I see'. Pound, a 71-year-old Canadian lawyer, was founding chairman of WADA and is a former president of the agency, as well as a senior member of the International Olympic Committee. "
Andrew Davis

BBC Sport - Why tennis must step up the fight against doping - 0 views

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    "He will also need to do his bit to ensure the sport promotes a robust drug testing programme, while placating those leading players who have expressed distrust in the system after two much-discussed recent cases."
Andrew Davis

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    "Malta's Parliamentary Secretary for Research, Innovation, Youth and Sport, Stefan Buontempo, stated that sports organizations should sustain the National Anti-Doping Organization."
Andrew Davis

BBC Sport - Drugs in sport: Wada doubles doping ban in new code - 0 views

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    "A first major offence currently carries a two-year ban, with athletes banned for life if they test positive again. The new code, which comes into effect from 1 January 2015, means offenders will miss at least one Olympic Games."
Andrew Davis

Lance Armstrong complains of 'massive personal loss' in doping fall-out | Sport | thegu... - 0 views

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    "Lance Armstrong has questioned the validity of cycling's inquiry into doping and complained that he has "experienced massive personal loss … while others have truly capitalised on this story". "Do I think that this process has been good for cycling?" he said in a interview. "No. I don't think our sport has been served well by going back 15 years."
Andrew Davis

New UCI boss vows to clean up a sport tainted by doping | Sports | DW.DE | 27.09.2013 - 0 views

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    "Cycling's world governing body has a new president after Britain's Brian Cookson defeated the incumbent, Pat McQuaid of Ireland. Cookson has pledged to clean up the sport, which has been tainted by doping scandals."
Andrew Davis

Argentina Enacted Law against Sports Doping - 0 views

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    "Buenos Aires, Dec 26.- The Argentine government passed today a law against doping in sport, designed to promote fair play and protecting the health of those involved in the competitions. The Legal Regime for the Prevention and Control of Doping in Sport was sanctioned by both houses of the National Congress in November and published Thursday by the Gazette, which comes into force."
Andrew Davis

BBC Sport - Fifa adopts 'passport' approach to combat doping in football - 0 views

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    "And many of those that do come back positive are for recreational drugs with negligible performance-enhancing effects, like cannabis. There are some in the anti-doping industry - and it is now an industry - who wonder why, if the point is to stop cheats, we bother testing for drugs that are deemed not to enhance performance. And when it costs £65,000 for each positive, there are those who wonder why we bother testing for drugs at all."
Andrew Davis

Supplements career risk | Stuff.co.nz - 0 views

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    "The booming fitness supplement industry is a minefield for New Zealand youngsters looking at a career in sport, experts say. Auckland College Sport chief executive Manoj Daji says better education about performance enhancing drugs is needed at the grassroots level."
Andrew Davis

Sports Doping Is Unacceptable, Says Kohli | Steroid-Use.com - 0 views

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    "Doping in sports is simply not acceptable, said Indian cricket team vice-captain Virat Kohli. He further called for the harshest possible punishment for those who bring disrepute to the game."
Andrew Davis

New Anti-Doping Centre Opened By Russia | Steroid-Use.com - 0 views

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    "A new anti-doping centre was recently opened by Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko in the grounds of Moscow's physical culture and sports research institute. However, many believe the sincerity of the hosts of the World Athletics Championships against doping will be under the spotlight after many top athletes of the country tested positive in the run-up to the event."
Andrew Davis

Sports and Health | Vitamins and minerals | Health Information | Weight Loss ... - 0 views

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    "Young athletes may fare worse than older athletes after sustaining a sports-related concussion, according to recent study findings."
Andrew Davis

BBC Sport - Kenya doping issue to come under Wada microscope - 0 views

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    "Kenya faces censure from the World Anti-Doping Agency  (Wada) for failing to carry out a full inquiry into the alarming surge in the number of their athletes caught taking banned drugs."
Andrew Davis

Kenya says nothing to hide in athletics doping fight - Yahoo!7 Sport - 0 views

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    "Nairobi (AFP) - A top Kenyan sports official said Sunday the country's legendary distance athletes were running clean and that the fight against doping in the country was both tough and transparent."
Andrew Davis

Russian athletes banned for doping - IOL Sport | IOL.co.za - 0 views

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    "MOSCOW - Six Russian male weightlifters and two female cyclists have been banned for breaking anti-doping regulations."
Andrew Davis

Memorable moments of 2013: Lance Armstrong admits that he doped | Sport | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "When Lance Armstrong chose Oprah Winfrey to hear his confession in January, he - and we - knew what to expect: a hug not the scalpel; understanding not evisceration; a bleeding heart not a bloody dissection"
Andrew Davis

Usain Bolt insists 'I am clean' amid recent doping scandals - 0 views

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    "Insisting that he is running clean, Usain Bolt said Thursday that the recent spate of doping scandals in athletics will damage the sport. They won't affect his preparations for the upcoming world championships, however."
Andrew Davis

Melrose player Sam Chalmers faces doping allegations - Latest - The Scotsman - 0 views

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    "The 19-year-old student, and son of former Scotland and British & Irish Lions fly-half Craig Chalmers, is alleged to have tested positive in a random drugs test while involved with Scotland Under-20s towards the end of last season. The IRB, SRU and Melrose RFC all declined to comment on the case, other than to re-state their commitment to keeping rugby clean and disciplining players in line with the UK Sport and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines."
Andrew Davis

Sports and Health | Vitamins and minerals | Health Information | Weight Loss ... - 0 views

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    "Tour de France 2013 winner Chris Froome has remarked that drug cheats in cycling should be given life bans. The Team Sky rider believes harsher sanctions still need to be handed down to anyone testing positive for drugs and remarked the sport has now moved on from past scandals."
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