U.S. athletes urged to step up campaign against drugs
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The U.S. congressional chairman who   pressured Major League Baseball in 2005 to crack down on   steroid use chided pro athletes for failing to do more to steer   children away from the performance-enhancing drugs.
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President Bush called on Major League Baseball on Wednesday to take "strong steps" to confront the use of steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing substances by players.
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NEW PROVIDENCE, New Jersey  - Two states are initiating random testing this week to try to stop the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in high school sports.
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Two recent events have me thinking that maybe we put too much importance on winning in sports. First, there were reports that baseball superstars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi took steroids, drugs that can help make players stronger.
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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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The chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency says drug allegations surrounding US Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones could become a turning point in efforts to rid sports of drugs.
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Even if baseball institutes more stringent drug testing, there will still be a number of ways for players to defy detection, many doping experts say.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound believes the doping controversy involving American track star Marion Jones could be a watershed moment in the fight against drugs in sports.
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Marion Jones's drugs disgrace has been a wake-up call for U.S. athletics, IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe said on Sunday.
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TURIN, Italy  - The discovery of a new, highly  sophisticated steroid designed to evade drug-testers is a  positive step in the war against doping in sport although more  illegal substances are sure to surface, says Olympic chief  Jacques Rogge.
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Major League Baseball and the NFL agreed to join the U.S. Olympic Committee to fund anti-doping research, contributing $3 million each to create the most extensive drug-fighting partnership between America's biggest pro leagues and its Olympic federation.
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Health passports for athletes, a whistleblowing hotline and quicker sample testing could soon find a role in the fight against doping.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Sunday said the United States should step up it's war on drugs as part of efforts to secure the country's borders.
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If the drug allegations surrounding US track star Marion Jones are true, not only could she be stripped of her Olympic medals but American sprinters may also face tougher restrictions in the future, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Monday.
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Just eleven days into the 2004 Olympics in Athens, we have already been confronted with the seemingly common problem of drug use within sport. So much so, in fact, that it has been dubbed "The Gene Games" by chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's ethical issues review panel, Thomas Murray.    In a recent interview conducted by the New York Times, Murray talks about the impact of drugs in sport, and what effect they have on the athletes involved.
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Golf begrudgingly joined the new world of sport yesterday when leaders from its most influential organizations signed off on an anti-doping policy with hopes of proving its players are clean.
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If Gary Player is trying to alert golfâs ruling bodies to the use of performance enhancing drugs on various world tours, he needs to name the cheaters.