Steroid Use

"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."

"In a series of interviews in recent days, one of Alex Rodriguez's attorneys said he would like nothing more than to discuss Major League Baseball's case against the Yankees slugger, if only the league would free him from a confidentiality clause built into the league's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program."

"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."

"A Jamaican international footballer and a Jamaican team official have been provisionally suspended by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee for an initial period of 30 days."

The new lawyer for Alex Rodriguez, opening a fresh defence for a player who sees himself as unfairly targeted by Major League Baseball and his team, said that the New York Yankees tried to hasten the end of his career by playing him when he was injured and that baseball's commissioner is personally determined to brand Rodriguez as the "poster boy" for doping.

"Sorry, Lance, but for Greg LeMond it really is all about the bike. LeMond, a three-time Tour de France champion, regaled a Portland crowd of 750 cycling enthusiasts with stories of epic Tour de France battles, his feud with Lance Armstrong over doping, and his own physical struggles to overcome being shot. LeMond spoke Wednesday at the Portland Art Museum as part of the "Cyclepedia" exhibit."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Fenerbahce of Turkey have had their request for Champions League expulsion rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that upheld the ban of two years imposed by UEFA from European competition over a much-publicized match-fixing scandal."

"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."