Steroid Use

"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."

"UCI president, Pat McQuaid, believes it was because of him that the world of cycling is a doping-free world. The embattled president of the world cycling body recently remarked that he is part of the "new guard" in the sport."

"A record 1,974 athletes from 206 countries have entered the 47 events in Moscow, but doping and injuries have deprived the year's biggest single sports event of several top attractions. Germany is sending 67 athletes and is hoping to do well right at the start of the competition in the decathlon. "To win a medal right at the start would be a great beginning," said Clemens Prokop, president of the German athletics federation (DLV), with European decathlon champion Pascal Behrenbruch in mind."

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revealed that a product marketed as a vitamin B dietary supplement contains two potentially harmful anabolic steroids and should not be used by consumers. Healthy Life Chemistry By Purity First B-50 contains methasterone and dimethazine, according to laboratory analysis. The ingredients were not listed on the label and should not be present in a dietary supplement."

"Insisting that he is running clean, Usain Bolt said Thursday that the recent spate of doping scandals in athletics will damage the sport. They won't affect his preparations for the upcoming world championships, however."

"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."

"Major League Baseball is all set to use evidence from more than one of those cases in its effort to suspend Alex Rodriguez in lieu of a laboratory test."

"Lance Armstrong is facing a lawsuit claiming he defrauded team sponsor US Postal Service out of millions of dollars. Armstrong's lawyers have fired back, claiming the government shouldn't collect because it should have seen all those media reports about Armstrong doping."

"According to a new analysis of over 53,000 volunteers, the use of low-dose CT scans to screen high-risk patients for lung tumors is far more effective at preventing lung cancer deaths than scanning those at low risk."

"ARLINGTON, Texas -- On Monday, I wrote a column saying that the best thing Alex Rodriguez could do for himself would be to drop all the posing, the pretense and the publicists and just tell the whole truth about what he got from Biogenesis and why he felt he needed it. "

"Doping in sports is simply not acceptable, said Indian cricket team vice-captain Virat Kohli. He further called for the harshest possible punishment for those who bring disrepute to the game."

"PARIS - Chris Froome, crowned the Tour de France winner on Sunday, was being peppered at a recent news conference with questions that furtively nibbled at a bigger issue - have you doped? - when his team director leapt into the fray, bubbling with frustration."

"According to a new study, more than $1 million worth of heart attacks, strokes, and hospitalizations for other reasons were avoided by 1,000 Scotsmen aged in their 40s through 60s who had taken cholesterol-lowering statins for five years."

"Team Sky has released his performance data from six races, including this Tour. The team of Tour de France leader Chris Froome did this to dispel suspicions of doping."

"Banned 400m runner Dominique Blake is all set to challenge her suspension of six years that was imposed by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel which resulted from a positive test for methylhexanamine at last year's Olympic Trials."

"Britain's Chris Froome is set to win the 100th Tour de France on Sunday. However, he has been forced to respond to questions about doping, following revelations over Lance Armstrong and other former Tour de France giants who used drugs in the 90s and 2000s. Froome told BBC Sport: "I've also believed in people who have turned out to be cheats and liars. But I can assure you, I'm not.""

"Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability to attain or sustain an erection for satisfactory sexual activity. It is important to note here that this health complication is different from other sexual conditions like lack of sexual desire (decreased libido) and problems with ejaculation and orgasm (ejaculatory dysfunction)."

"Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall became the third athlete to confirm a positive drugs test from the Jamaican trials in June following recent revelations by sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson."

"Colombian climbing sensation Nairo Quintana has remarked that fight against doping of cycling has helped him excel at the Tour de France by allowing his intense training to make a difference."