Drug crackdown could give Rogers bronze
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Cyclist Michael Rogers could benefit for the second time in a month from a crackdown on drug cheats, this time by picking up an Olympic bronze medal.
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ATHENS, Greece - The first woman to win a gold medal at Ancient Olympia - a Russian shot putter - is under investigation for a positive drug test, international and Russian Olympic officials said Sunday.
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Weightlifting&#39;s aggressive pursuit of drug cheaters will continue even if it jeopardizes its future in the Olympics, its top official said yesterday following six more positive doping cases in what is again becoming the Games&#39; dirtiest sport. Five ...
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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Drugs cast another shadow over the  Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their  bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred. After  showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the  400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained  about the media's obsession with drugs -- and defended two of  her disgraced compatriots.
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MICHAEL ROGERS likes the look and feel of the world champion&#39;s rainbow-coloured jersey on his back. The Italian-based Rogers, 25, from Canberra, has been hovering around world championship podiums at junior
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Tyler Hamilton almost certainly would be banned for life as a two-time offender if the US Anti-Doping Agency decides there is conclusive proof in documents from the Spanish doping scandal that the Marblehead cyclist used banned drugs in past years.
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Baseball returns to Capitol Hill today for another look into the illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. One of the sport's biggest stars, pitcher Roger Clemens, is scheduled to testify at a congressional hearing.
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European Athletics will press for tougher sanctions against drug cheats in the sport, the continental governing body's president Hansjorg Wirz said here on Thursday.
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Congress announced plans Tuesday to review the use of performance-enhancing drugs, with star-studded hearings scheduled next month and legislation to limit access to steroids and human growth hormone.
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THE GAZETTE. Track and field star Marion Jones should give up her five medals won at the 2000 Olympic Games if new accusations that she used illegal performance-enhancing drugs are proved
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Reports from the Olympics Saturday, say Greece&#39;s first medal winner at the Athens games has twice tested positive for illegal substances, and could lose the bronze medal he won for weightlifting.
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Drug users in England are to get shopping vouchers if they stay clean as part of a pilot scheme.
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UK Athletics (UKA) on Thursday launched a review of its anti-doping policy that could result in athletes who are caught using performance-enhancing drugs being banned from representing Great Britain for life.
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound says that if US sprinter Marion Jones has taken banned substances she should be stripped of all her medals regardless of when she won them.
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency received an important validation yesterday in its attempt to punish athletes who were suspected of doping in the Balco steroids scandal but who had not failed a drug test.
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Soccer players and other sportsmen could  soon face mandatory two-year bans from their sports if they are  caught using recreational drugs at any time, the head of the  World Anti-Doping Agency said Monday.