Steroid Use

"Franz Beckenbauer has rejected doping allegations against the West Germany football team that reached the 1966 World Cup final."

"This is about as uncomfortable an interview as I have conducted. It is the early evening of one of the last days of our faded summer and I am sitting on a hilltop in Sussex, the South Downs stretching out before us, talking to Sean Yates, who is frank, weary in voice, but not even impolite when he says that he wishes we hadn't actually spoken."

"British distance running star Mo Farah has rejected suspicions that his startling form is down to drugs, saying that it was solely hard work that got him atop the podiums at the London Olympics and Moscow world chamionships."

"Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI), the largest needle exchange service in the state, has reported a "dramatic increase" in the count of people, mainly men, who are injecting anabolic steroids."

"Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, has remarked there is tremendous pressure on athletes and business leaders to do whatever it takes to win, including cheating."

"The Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) will now hand over to the country's anti-doping disciplinary panel to discuss when hearings for the athletes - which also includes Powell's team-mate Sherone Simpson - will take place."

"Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson has remarked that drugs are a concern across the board, not just in sports. The sprinter was disqualified from the Seoul Olympics after he failed to clear a drug test after his gold medal win in the 100 meters."

"Former cyclist Erik Zabel has met with the German National Anti-Doping Agency to announce his interest to take the fight against doping to a new level. His cooperation was hailed by NADA that remarked Jan Ullrich has refused to meet with them."

"The Prime Minister of Jamaica called for the sprinting powerhouse's athletes to be far more vigilant about any kind of supplement they take. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller made these comments after revelations that two of the island's marquee sprinters and three others tested positive for banned substances at a meet."

"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."

"A Texas judge wants answers from Lance Armstrong about the disgraced cyclist's use of performance-enhancing drugs. A Nebraska-based company is seeking details from Armstrong about his doping, as well as who else had knowledge -- including Armstrong's lawyers and ex-wife -- of the PED use and at what time."

"The Turkish Athletic Federation has announced that two-time European 100 meters hurdles champion Nevin Yanit has been banned from competing for two years for doping offences."

"The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee has provisionally suspended a Zimbabwean international footballer for an initial period of 30 days and opened disciplinary proceedings following an adverse analytical finding in relation to a doping control conducted after the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ qualifier between Zimbabwe and Egypt played in Harare, Zimbabwe on 9 June 2013."

"The investigation of Major League Baseball into alleged doping may take many months to resolve with the league and union still in talks about the crisis."

"The world's fastest man said recently that the recent spate of doping scandals in athletics will damage the sport. Usain Bolt also remarked that he is running clean and positive tests of his countrymen won't affect his preparations for the upcoming world championships."

"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."

"Everth Cabrera, a Nicaraguan professional baseball infielder with the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball, has admitted to using banned substances that led to his 50-game suspension by Major League Baseball."

"According to a new Korean study, taking medications containing caffeine was tied to a doubled or even tripled risk of having a stroke. The findings of this study may seem to contradict recent evidence suggesting coffee and tea exert protective effects."

"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."

"According to a new study, children who drink soda tend to score slightly higher on scales that measure aggressive behavior than kids who don't drink the carbonated beverages. It was cautioned by the study's lead author that the increase may not be noticeable for individual children and the researchers cannot prove soda caused the bad behaviors."