Steroid Use

"LONDON - Novak Djokovic's scathing comments on tennis' anti-doping authorities have dominated conversation at the ATP World Tour Finals this week. The world No. 2 said he had lost all faith in the anti-doping system after the way fellow Serb Viktor Troicki's punishment was handled for failing to provide a requested blood sample."

"A strong statement was recently delivered by Abby Hoffman, an IAAF Council Member and a Member of the IAAF's Medical and Anti-Doping Commission, about the IAAF view of the new WADA Code to the 2013 World Conference on Doping in Sport organized by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Johannesburg."

"Cycling's governing body UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency have agreed to work together in a commission for investigating the sport's dark doping past. Many believe this agreement will give WADA something to cheer about for its behind-the-scenes discussions at its World Conference on Doping in Sport."

"LONDON (AP) -- The IOC is using an improved steroid test to reanalyze frozen doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and may use the same method to conduct retests from the 2008 Beijing Games."

"Sir Craig Reedie, a member of WADA's Executive Committee and Foundation Board, will take over from outgoing WADA president John Fahey who began his term almost six years ago."

"Samples stored from the 2006 Torino winter Olympics are being retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the eight-year statute of limitations runs out next year and as two labs find hundreds of unrelated positive tests."

"Scientists from the Houston Methodist Research Institute have claimed to be just ready with a technology that would someday be the first blood test for the early detection of breast cancer was shown in preliminary studies to successfully identify the presence of breast cancer cells from serum biomarkers."

"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."

"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."

"Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were crowned male and female World Athletes of the Year for 2013 by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, at a ceremony in Monaco last night."

"Cycling Canada has expressed its concerns after former cyclist Ryder Hesjedal on Wednesday admitted to doping "more than 10 years ago.""

"November 10 - Kenya's Government will tomorrow reveal details of a new committee to investigate allegations of doping by some of the country's top athletes. Problems in Kenya and Jamaica are set to be among the major topics discussed at the World Conference on Doping in Sport, which is due to start here on Tuesday (November 12). "

"In what is believed to be the UK Armed Forces' biggest doping case, eighteen soldiers face being kicked out of the Army for taking banned fitness drugs."

"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."

"People with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dependency can find relief when ADHD drug are administered in higher doses, according to a randomized study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden."

"A World Anti-Doping Agency team will visit Jamaica, a country troubled by doping allegations and lack of drug testing, amid reports that athletes of the country may face an Olympic ban over the handling of recent drug scandals by Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO)."

"PARIS: Marin Cilic on Monday won his first match since a doping suspension forced him to pull out of Wimbledon, saying at the Paris Masters that bad science and errors had led to his ban. The former top 10 player, now ranked 47th, opened in Paris with a 5-7 6-1 6-4 defeat of Dutchman Igor Sijsling."

"The bid of Barbara Marshman to win another Hamilton Cup has ended after the Hamilton trainer was convicted and disqualified for three months."

"Anabolic steroids should be banned from horseracing and this ban is fundamental to growth of the sport, says Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, chief executive officer of the Hong Kong Jockey Club."

"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."