Athletics: Call for long bans
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Tanni Grey Thompson, leading an anti-doping review for UK Athletics, wants eight-year bans for drugs cheats.
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Sprinter Justin Gatlin received an eight-year ban from track and field Tuesday, avoiding a lifetime penalty in exchange for his cooperation with doping authorities and because an earlier positive drug test was deemed an honest mistake.
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South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday against his ban from running at this year's Beijing Olympics with artificial limbs.
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The government and UK Sport must do more to make sure doping does not turn London's 2012 Olympics into a national embarrassment, said a report on Thursday.
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Britain's 400 metres runner Christine Ohuruogu is to appeal the ban that rules her out of future Olympics, but if that fails she will stop running.
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Zurich - Football&#39;s world ruling body Fifa has extended worldwide a seven-month ban handed out to disgraced former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu on Friday.
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The International Olympic Association head says any athlete caught doping will be barred from the next games.
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A majority of fans say players who test positive for steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs should be banned from baseball and think such players should be barred from the Hall of Fame, a poll found.
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Years of ignoring or downplaying steroid use among athletes have come back to haunt baseball and Olympics officials. By STEVE WILSTEIN.
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Sports people should not be banned for using "social" drugs, UK sports minister Richard Caborn has said.
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Kostas Kederis and Ekaterina Thanou could be facing the end of their careers after the International Association of Athletics Federations last night suspended them following a series of missed drugs tests.
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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 IAAF is set to decide how Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou should be punished for missing drugs tests.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association wants to prevent the names of current and former major league players from being made public in a case involving performance-enhancing drugs.
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Players who test positive for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs should be banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame, according to the majority of fans polled by Connecticut&#39;s Quinnipiac University.
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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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SALVO, North Carolina  - Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin has been banned for four years pending a possible appeal for a 2006 positive test for testosterone, a source close to the case told Reuters on Tuesday.