Baseball Owners, Players Toughen Drug Policy
Clubs and players agreed yesterday to toughen Major League Baseball's anti-doping policy, the AP reports. Players will be tested more frequently without notice, and the game's outside administrator—a...
View ArticleClemens Used Viagra for On-Field Boost
Roger Clemens was on at least one performance enhancing drug, a clubhouse source tells the New York Daily News : Viagra. Clemens wasn’t using Vitamin V to help with the ladies, he—and several of his...
View ArticleLandis Can't Overturn Ban
Cyclist Floyd Landis lost perhaps his final chance to keep his 2006 Tour de France title today, the AP reports, with a key panel upholding a 2-year doping ban. The three-person Court of Arbitration for...
View ArticleKey Olympic Drug Test Could Be Unreliable
Labs that test athletes for evidence of doping could be letting cheaters slip through, the BBC reports. Negative results for samples an anti-doping scientist deems suspicious have raised doubts about...
View ArticleViagra May Give Athletes an Advantage
Researchers are investigating whether Viagra provides athletes with an unfair advantage at high altitudes, the New York Times reports. By dilating blood vessels, Viagra may increase an individual's...
View ArticleRussian Cyclist Fails Doping Test at Tour
Russian cyclist Alexandr Kolobnev became the first cyclist at this year's Tour de France to fail a doping test, the International Cycling Union said today. A urine sample collected from Kolobnev last...
View ArticleFormer Anti-Doping Chief: 90% Get Away With It
Close to a tenth of Olympic athletes are using banned substances, and only one in ten of those are getting caught, warns former World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound. "People who have prepared in...
View ArticleOlympics May Ax Cycling Over Armstrong Scandal
Lance Armstrong's doping scandal could end up sidelining his entire sport from the Olympics, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound warns. Armstrong—who confessed to doping in an Oprah...
View ArticleRussia's Doping a 'State-Sanctioned Regime'
Russian athletes should be banned from the Rio Olympics and future track and field competitions, say authors of a scathing new report on the country's systematic doping program . The report, the result...
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