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As detection gets tougher, the drug cheats will trust to luck at the Beijing Olympics

For all the hype that surrounds growth hormone (hGH) especially when ‘poster boy’ for hGH, Sylvester....

All Sports  |  June 09, 2008  |  565 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Marion Jones: Olympic drugs cheat (gettyimages.com)

A drugs-free Beijing Olympics? No chance in the Chinese Year of the Rat!

In this Olympic ‘Year of the Rat’ there will no doubt be new drug scandals. It goes with the territo....

All Sports  |  June 08, 2008  |  2728 Views  |  (12) Comments
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Worrying overtones of Matthew Pinsent's growth-hormone revelations

In Matthew Pinsent's report about Growth Hormone (GH) on Inside Sport on BBC One, he described how h....

All Sports  |  February 21, 2008  |  501 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Drug cheats find a new way to fly under the sporting radar

Just when we thought there were no other drugs or ways of getting them into the body, whether for tr....

Athletics  |  February 17, 2008  |  421 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Marion Jones, Sly Stallone, Ben Cousins and Andrew Johns - you've all been DISHED

We pick up once again with the DISHED awards for 2007. I could have gone on ad nauseum (parts 3,4 an....

December 14, 2007  |  566 Views  |  (1) Comments
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The 2007 DISHED Awards for exploits in sports doping

It has been another ugly year of doping scandals plummeting to new lows (just ask Greg LeMond how lo....

December 14, 2007  |  272 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Time for athletes to foot the tab for catching drug cheats

Recent reports that funding of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is under threat perhaps is a sign....

November 22, 2007  |  262 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Would a tracking system drive the drug cheats out of sport?

Lets say a drug company develops a drug to treat a non life-threatening disease but finds that it ha....

November 02, 2007  |  172 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Will Fahey give WADA the teeth it needs to attack sport's drug cheats?

It seems that the rough and tumble world of international sport and politics has claimed another vic....

October 19, 2007  |  319 Views  |  (4) Comments
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Why legalised doping in sport can never be acceptable

Leading Australian Swimming coach Don Talbot, once a leading advocate against drugs in sport appears....

October 14, 2007  |  571 Views  |  (2) Comments
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The great human growth hormone hoax, part 2

At the risk of sending readers to sleep, as supporting evidence that Growth Hormone does not work I ....

September 27, 2007  |  307 Views  |  (0) Comments
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The great human-growth hormone hoax

I have not been the only one saying it; synthetic human growth hormone (hGH) does not work. The evid....

September 25, 2007  |  1164 Views  |  (10) Comments
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Is rugby naive to believe no player would ever consider blood doping?

The game they supposedly ‘play in heaven’ appears to be in denial. Recently the International Rugby ....

Rugby  |  September 14, 2007  |  562 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Would you use drugs to turn your son into a superstar?

Just like the flu that’s spreading as rampantly as wildfire here, it would seem that doping is also ....

August 25, 2007  |  247 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Did Aussie Rules player's calf-blood treatment breach the anti-doping code?

I never cease to be amazed at the lengths professional sports people and sporting clubs will go to h....

August 05, 2007  |  687 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Alexandre Vinokourov and his supporters should accept the ‘bleeding’ obvious after Tour de France shame

The claim by Kazakh sporting officials that Alexandre Vinokourov is innocent of blood doping has sim....

Cycling  |  August 03, 2007  |  453 Views  |  (2) Comments
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Package man Richards names Tour leader Rasmussen in new drugs scandal

While I take no great joy in claiming that in my book, Blood Sports, Hemopure was being abused as fa....

Cycling  |  July 23, 2007  |  1027 Views  |  (8) Comments
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Sport and drugs: Flo-Jo and the Rocky horror show

Human Growth Hormone (GH) does not work!  Shock, horror the myth has been exposed. The gym junkies a....

June 09, 2007  |  1804 Views  |  (2) Comments
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Jan Ullrich in firing line as cycling unearths more dodgy gold from Sydney Olympics

The recent avalanche of admissions of past doping by German and Dutch cyclists has prompted the IOC ....

Cycling  |  June 05, 2007  |  591 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Team Telekom's dope doctors highlight just how sick cycling is

German doctors from the University of Freiburg, Lothar Heinrich and Andreas Schmid, have now admitte....

Cycling  |  June 05, 2007  |  589 Views  |  (4) Comments
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Basso and Landis innocent? Why WADA's new chief must strive to root out sport's drugs cheats

Reports that imminent WADA chief Jean-Francoise Lamour may have cheated in the past have proven to b....

May 18, 2007  |  343 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Cycling's T-Mobile team doctors implicated in latest drugs scandal

After the Operation Puerta scandal in Spain last year, I thought it would be a while before we would....

Cycling  |  May 06, 2007  |  396 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Cheating in the genes - why should sports stars be different from the rest of us?

Why do some athletes cheat? Indeed, why do we as humans have a propensity to cheat in all life matte....

May 05, 2007  |  868 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Why is there no blood-testing for drugs at the World Swimming Championships?

There is no problem if you don’t go looking for it! This could be FINA’s latest catch-phrase.At the ....

March 29, 2007  |  495 Views  |  (3) Comments
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Drug addict or drug cheat? It's time to draw the line under this problem

This article is a 3rd of a series, see related articles below for moreWhile every effort should be m....

March 29, 2007  |  658 Views  |  (2) Comments
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We are still turning a blind eye to steroids and drugs in sport. Part 2 in a series of 3.

More and more we hear stories of amateur athletes and even gym junkies popping/injecting steroids. W....