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"PARIS - Chris Froome, crowned the Tour de France winner on Sunday, was being peppered at a recent news conference with questions that furtively nibbled at a bigger issue - have you doped? - when his team director leapt into the fray, bubbling with frustration."

"Mary Akor of Gardena, an athlete in the sport of track & field, has accepted a ban of two years for a doping offense, according to an announcement by the United States Anti-Doping Agency."

"Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, the 2012 Tour of Britain winner, faces disciplinary proceedings after analysis of his biological passport showed an anti-doping violation."

"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."

"The world governing body of football is creating blood and urine profiles of the world's top players with unannounced visits by an anti-doping team to clubs like Champions League winner Bayern Munich. This is done to ensure that the stars are under scrutiny ahead of next year's football World Cup."

"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."

"BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's only Tour de France winner, Jan Ullrich, turns 40 on Monday, insisting he has come to terms with his doping past. Ullrich, who retired in 2007 having won the 1997 Tour, admitted earlier this year that he had resorted to blood doping during his career with the help of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes."

"Anti-doping prosecutor of the Italian Olympic Committee has requested a life ban for former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca following third career offense of the cyclist. Prosecutor Tammaro Maiello made this request and the case will now be decided by CONI's anti-doping court."