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."

"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."

"In early Asian trade on Monday, the United States dollar was on the back foot against the yen and the Swiss franc with little progress made over the U.S. budget standoff, keeping the dollar stuck close to lows of eight months against a basket of major currencies due to US government shutdown."

"A recently concluded study has revealed that an alarmingly high number of elite teenage athletes say they plan to take performance enhancing drugs."

"However, those years of unparalleled success on the road and manipulation of the legal system could cost the man who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles a large proportion of his estate. It is a year since the US ­Anti-Doping Agency published its 202-page report into what its chief executive, Travis Tygart, described as the "most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen"."

"Products containing methylhexaneamine need to be removed from the UK market after concerns of potential risks to public safety, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)."

"The Turkish National Olympic Committee (TMOK) is pushing for the doubling of the two-year ban penalty imposed on athletes found to have engaged in doping."

"Cyril Mangal, President of the St Lucia Cycling Association, has accused the recently-appointed president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) by using "subversive legal tactics and intimidation" in his campaign to oust Pat McQuaid."

"The Obama administration has remarked the United States is postponing negotiations for a landmark free trade deal with the European Union due to a partial shutdown of the U.S. government."

"Top Jamaican track and field coach Glen Mills, while admitting that there is room for improvement in Jamaica's anti-doping efforts, blasted sections of the international community for what he believes to be unfair targeting of the island."

"The International Monetary Fund has urged Turkey to tighten its fiscal and monetary policies for reducing its external imbalances that have been exacerbated by capital outflows from emerging markets."

"A probe into one of the UKs biggest equine operations has been sparked after illegal veterinary goods were seized by Stansteda airport"

"The announcement comes on the same day Russian powerlifter Ilnar Latypov was given a two-year suspension for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation. Latypov's case follows several other recent doping scandals, including a failed test by London 2012 gold medallist Ivory Nwokorie of Nigeria."