Chess players to face anti-doping measures
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Chess's world governing body will introduce dope testing at the Asian Games this week, although the sport's top official in Doha said he had no idea how drugs could enhance chess performance.
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Golf finally joined other major sports Thursday when its leading organizations announced an anti-doping policy that will begin in 2008.
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The International Football Federation says it will pursue disciplinary action against France, Italy and the Netherlands for not handing down tough penalties against players who use drugs.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - U.S. athletics coaches whose athletes are sanctioned for doping will be penalised themselves under a revised USA Track and Field policy, the national governing body announced on Thursday.
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Tennis chiefs will next year offer  professional players on the men's tour a range of "safe  supplements," the BBC reported Wednesday.
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Key players and officials say a drugs-testing policy is urgently needed in golf, according to World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound.
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THE TOUR de France announces that any rider refusing to sign a no-doping pledge before next week's start will be banned from the race. Jason Giambi agrees to meet with baseball's steroid investigator George Mitchell. Barry Bonds closes in on Hank Aaron's home run record, but fans greet him with signs marked simply with an asterisk. After numerous Yankees come ...
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The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering whether speedskating athletes should be allowed to use oxygen-deprived chambers designed to build endurance.
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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency warned Friday that 'âmore than a handfulâ' of Olympic sports have failed to comply with anti-doping rules.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) made  great strides in its fight against doping in 2004, but athletes  who miss doping tests should be immediately disqualified in the  future, IOC President Jacques Rogge said.
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Two top Greek athletes will today learn if they will be banned from competing in the Olympics following a drugs scandal.
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The Champions Tour will follow the PGA's policy on steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Olympic president Jacques Rogge took another stand against drug cheats on Friday when he said that athletes caught doping, even for minor offences, would automatically be banned from the next Games.
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Twelve ProTeams agreed to tougher doping measures in an effort to clean up cyclingâs battered image.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - Personalized blood profiling should help doping testers to tackle currently undetectable methods of cheating in sport but stringent controls are needed to make it work, experts say.
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Spain is to introduce an anti-doping code to improve detection procedures, speed up the implementation of sanctions and clamp down on the trading of banned substances.
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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.