Steroid Use

"Australia's multi-billion-dollar greyhound industry has been hit by allegations of widespread doping, animal cruelty, and collusion."

"STOCKHOLM (AP) The Norwegian Biathlon Association says the sport's international governing body has asked six-time Olympic gold medalist Ole Einar Bjoerndalen for clarification after he failed to report his whereabouts to doping inspectors in Austria."

"Allegations of widespread doping, animal cruelty and collusion in Australia's multi-billion-dollar greyhound racing industry have been uncovered by a 7.30 investigation. Australia's greyhound industry is the third biggest in the world, and each year Australians wager about $3 billion on the sport."

"Glen Mills, top Jamaican track and field coach, has expressed disappointment with the initiatives taken by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) and government."

"Top Jamaican track and field coach Glen Millis has blasted sections of the international community for making athletes of his country easy and unfair targets of doping allegations."

"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)."

"A year after Usain Bolt made history at the London Olympics and declared himself "a living legend," a bombshell dropped largely unnoticed in The Gleaner, the Caribbean's oldest newspaper: A former director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission alleged the island didn't drug-test its athletes for entire months before they dazzled at the Summer Games."

"Top female shot putter Jillian Camarena-Williams has been suspended by the US Anti-Doping Agency after the American thrower tested positive for Clomiphene."

"In his first move as UCI president, Brian Cookson has urged Lance Armstrong to divulge all that he knows about past doping activities. "I hope that he is going to tell the complete truth," said Cookson, "I haven't spoken with him before but if he wants to help cycling, if he wants to be a witness, there is a place for him.""

"Campbell-Brown, one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's recent sprinting success, returned a positive test for a banned diuretic at the Jamaica International Invitational meet in May. She was suspended while the disciplinary committee reviewed the case and missed Jamaica's national championships and the chance to race at the 2013 world championships in Moscow."

"The head of the Spain's anti-doping agency (AEPSAD) told the lower house of parliament that tests conducted at the Spanish athletics championships in July returned three "adverse analytical findings.""

"Bayern Munich defender Philipp Lahm has stressed that football should take the doping problem seriously, but believes performance enhancing drugs are less effective in football than in other sports. The likes of cycling and sprinting have been plagued by doping scandals in recent years and Lahm feels it would be wrong to think there is no use of prohibited substances in football."

"Men who exercise vigorously as young adults may reduce their risk of developing epilepsy later in life, according to a new research. The study is published in the September 4, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology."

"Seven athletes, including one finalist, tested positive for doping at August's World Athletics Championships in Moscow, track and field's world governing body, the IAAF, announced on Friday."

"According to an updated systematic review published in The Cochrane Library, exercise could be of great help to people suffering from depression. Authors of the review found evidence suggesting that symptoms of depression are reduced by exercises, although they say more high quality trials are needed."

"Archaeological research in western Anatolia has revealed that doping in sports was a common and acceptable part of athletic competition in ancient Greece."

"A ban of two years has been imposed on Sam Chalmers, the son of former Scotland and British Lions fly-half Craig, for doping offences."

"Brian Cookson, the International Cycling Union (UCI) presidential hopeful, has vowed that if he is elected, he will offer cyclists an amnesty should they come clean about doping. British Cycling president Cookson is challenging incumbent UCI head Pat McQuaid for the presidency in next week's elections in Florence, during the World Championships."

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