Steroid Use

"According to a new study that included audio tests of close to 1,000 youth, teenagers are more likely to have hearing loss if their mothers smoked during pregnancy."

"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."

"Nine Turkish track and field athletes have been banned after testing positive for anabolic steroids in the latest doping scandal to hit the campaign of Istanbul to win 2020 Olympics hosting rights."

"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."

"Lord Coe, after a flurry of recent high-profile failed drug tests, has called on sporting authorities to 'get tough with physios, get tough with coaches, get tough with managers and agents' of doping athletes."

"Dick Pound, the former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has admitted that the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has forced him to question 'everything I see'. Pound, a 71-year-old Canadian lawyer, was founding chairman of WADA and is a former president of the agency, as well as a senior member of the International Olympic Committee. "

"The IOC and IAAF are looking at the bright side of the latest doping scandals to jolt track and field. The world bodies said though the positive tests that nabbed top-name sprinters Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson are disappointing but they have shown proof that global drug-testing efforts are working."

"After the recent positive tests of Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson, IOC vice president Thomas Bach has find a reason to look at the bright side of the latest doping scandals to jolt track and field. IOC vice president Thomas Bach, who leads the committee's investigations into Olympic doping cases, said the latest news is "disappointing and encouraging at the same time.""

"In October, Anthony P. Bosch, a troubled businessman who had a permanent suntan and a white lab coat with his name embroidered on it - though he had no medical license - clashed with an investor in his small anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla."

"Lance Armstrong should have his seven Tour de France victories reinstated because of the prevalence of doping at the time, says former cyclist Jan Ullrich. Ullrich told Sport Bild magazine he would "give Armstrong the Tour victories back. … That's how it was back then." "Bjarne Riis was given back his victory from 1996. That's how things were at the time. It's not helping anyone to have lines struck through the roll of honour," Ullrich said."

"Two men have been arrested for allegedly sending death threats to United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief Travis Tygart last year."

"Despite speculation last night the club would receive the 400-page report today, Bombers officials insisted this morning they had not been given a copy by either ASADA or the AFL. Speaking before training at Windy Hill - attended by about 500 Bombers fans - Hird was reluctant to divulge any information on the investigation."

"The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has remarked that the credibility of track and field's anti-doping program has been "enhanced, not diminished" after sprinters Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell tested positive for banned substances. "I am not now - nor have I ever been - a cheat," Powell posted on Twitter. Olympic gold medalist Sherone Simpson, who tested positive for the same stimulant oxilofrine, said she "would not intentionally take an illegal substance of any form into my system.""

"St Kilda forward Ahmed Saad is under investigation for breaching the AFL's anti-doping code, the club has confirmed. Saad, 23, has returned a positive sample to a substance alleged to be on the prohibited list. Twenty-three year-old Saad has not played for the seniors since early July when he was in the Saints' team which lost to Fremantle."

"The sporting world's latest doping bombshell landed last weekend, as sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson of Jamaica and American Tyson Gay all tested positive for banned drugs. It was a jarring blow to track and field, tarnishing two of the four fastest men ever to run the 100-metre dash and a woman with three Olympic medals."

"Suspended Jamaican 400 metres runner Dominique Blake is yet to decide if she will take her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) after her appeal was turned down against her six-year ban for a second doping violation."

"The Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Agency is focusing these days on ensuring their efforts of eliminating doping in sports are successful by targeting very young athletes."

"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)."