"Anabolic steroids should be banned from horseracing and this ban is fundamental to growth of the sport, says Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, chief executive officer of the Hong Kong Jockey Club."
"Nairobi (AFP) - A top Kenyan sports official said Sunday the country's legendary distance athletes were running clean and that the fight against doping in the country was both tough and transparent."
"Lance Armstrong would have been "top 30 at best" and "not capable of" winning the Tour de France without doping, says former cycling great Greg LeMond, the only U.S. rider to win the Tour de France."
"Kingston: The under-fire Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) has appointed a new executive director just three days before the start of a World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) audit of its operations, the Jamaican government said on Friday."
"Czech weightlifting association head Petr Krol has announcement that Czech weightlifter Jiri Orsag faces a suspension of two years for a positive doping test."
"The World Anti-Doping Agency will send an inspection team to Jamaica next week to investigate a rash of failed drug tests among top athletes on the island nation.
WADA plans to conduct an audit of Jamaica's testing regime, which is overseen by the much-maligned Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO)."
"Sallea Antiques, of New Canaan, has been selected to be one of the 40 exhibitors at the Ellis Boston Antiques Show that runs from October 24-27 at the Cyclorama (at Boston Center for the Arts)."
"VANCOUVER -- Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a DNA test to catch athletes who use blood doping to enhance their performance, but its limitations mean the current testing system will continue to detect cheaters."
"Next year, British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will seek marketing approval for the world's first malaria vaccine after trial data showed the shot significantly cut cases of the disease in African children."
"New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder will soon be making return to first-class cricket following his recovery from a serious assault and a doping ban of six months."
"Johannesburg - Trainer Cliffie Miller was charged for doping a horse which collapsed and died during a race earlier this year, the National Horseracing Authority (NHA) confirmed in a statement on Tuesday."
"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."
"Some were cyclists who injected themselves with banned endurance boosters and popped testosterone pills. Some lay side by side with teammates while blood dripped from chilled IV bags and into their swelling veins. Others were doctors who helped cyclists dope or middlemen who ferried drugs for Lance Armstrong's United States Postal Service team."
"All-time Olympic great Ole Einar Bjørndalen has been asked by the Norwegian anti-doping agency to apologize after six-time Olympic gold medalist failed to report his whereabouts to doping inspectors in Austria."
"Anti-doping prosecutor of the Italian Olympic Committee has requested a life ban for former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca following third career offense of the cyclist. Prosecutor Tammaro Maiello made this request and the case will now be decided by CONI's anti-doping court."
"Jock Paget of New Zealand has been provisionally suspended after the horse he rode to victory at the Land Rover Burghley horse trials, failed a drugs test. Clifton Promise, Paget's horse, and a horse ridden by his mentor, Kevin McNab, both tested positive for the banned sedative Reserpine at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in September."
"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."
"Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a DNA test to catch athletes who use blood doping to enhance their performance, but its limitations mean the current testing system will continue to detect cheaters."
"Endurance racing could be made illegal if action is not taken to solve doping and horse welfare issues, according to Belgian coach and FEI committee member Pierre Arnould."