How can you condemn cheating in a game where the players are expected to "steal" bases? David Jacobson has done a remarkable job in researching and writing this week's business of baseball feature package, talking about salaries, the revenue sharing model and the MLB's legally sanctioned monopoly...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond will speak at 6 p.m. Sunday, February 17, on "Ethics, Doping, and the Future of Cycling" at the Leavey Center at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.
Corporate and institutionalmarketers are providing record amounts of rights-free video content fromthe Beijing Olympics to news media outlets for use in their reporting,according to data released today from The NewsMarket, Inc. Sponsors such as adidas, VISA and OMEGA as well as institutions includingthe World Anti-Doping Agency, The Asia Society and...
BEIJING AFP — Marion Jones will watch the Beijing Olympics from a television in federal prison if she sees the Games at all but the former athletics star's downfall into doping disgrace continues to haunt her sport. Jones began serving a six-month prison sentence in March for lying...
PARIS AFP — Anti-doping tests used at the Olympics and other major sporting events are too often based on faulty science and statistical methods that can yield erroneous results, a researcher charged Wednesday in a leading scientific journal. Donald Berry, an expert in biostatistics at the University of...
HONG KONG AFP — Former Australia Test captain Steve Waugh has thrown his weight behind Twenty20 cricket becoming an Olympic sport, saying it would help globalise the game. "The idea of Twenty20 cricket at the Olympics is definitely worth pursuing," he told the South China Morning Post. ...
BEIJING AFP — Roger Federer may be anticipating a "dream Olympics" but, with just three days to go until the Beijing Games start, the dark cloud of doping was becoming as much a part of the atmosphere here as the pollution enveloping the Chinese capital. Federer, once the...
BEIJING AFP — Athletics legend Michael Johnson has handed back the 4x400 metres relay gold medal he won in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, International Olympic Committee IOC vice-president Thomas Bach confirmed here on Tuesday. The 200 and 400 metres world record holder had already said he would...
BEIJING AFP — IOC drugs chief Arne Ljungqvist on Tuesday accused Russia of systematically doping after seven athletes were hit with suspensions which could lead to four-year bans. The 77-year-old Swede, who is also a vice-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA, expressed his huge disappointment at what...
BEIJING AFP — Former IOC vice-president Dick Pound slammed the IOC on Tuesday for the way censorship of Internet sites by Chinese authorities had been handled ahead of the Olympic Games, claiming it had done considerable damage to the organisation. The 66-year-old former president of the World Anti-Doping...
BEIJING -- The anti-doping crackdown shook more Olympians during the weekend and is expected to intensify leading to Friday's opening ceremony while random tests are conducted at the athletes' village. The sheer number of disqualified athletes, new testing methods and Saturday's ruling to strip another 2000 Olympic gold...
WASHINGTON -- Today, I signed the instrument of ratification for the International Convention Against Doping in Sport adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization on October 19, 2005. This Convention is a valuable tool in protecting the integrity of international sport and the health of...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has decided to pursue legal proceedings against a French newspaper and journalist he alleges defamed him by publishing claims he used performance-enhancing drugs. A story written by Damien Ressiot and published by the daily sports newspaper L'Equipe in...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing Games organisers will be hoping that the exciting crop of competitors in the blue riband event of athletics can dispel the sordid spectre of doping and provide a feast of top-class sport. Certainly, there is a raft of big-name draw cards and record-breakers for...
MORE top athletes will join Dwain Chambers on the list of disgraced drug cheats, says the man charged with catching Britain's dopers. Andy Parkinson, UK Sport's Head of Drug Free Sport, knows it is unlikely Chambers - banned from the Olympics for life - was unique....
BEIJING AFP — Six days before the Beijing Olympics, Chinese and international organisers were working together on a compromise to unblock more censored websites for foreign media, a senior IOC official said Saturday. It came the same day the International Organising Committee announced here it had stripped the...
BEIJING AFP — The International Olympic Committee said Saturday it has stripped the United States' 4x400-metre men's relay team of the gold medal it won at the Sydney 2000 Olympics for doping. The decision was made after team member Antonio Pettigrew admitted in May to doping as far...
The Fencer Andrea Baldini, a leading Italian gold medal hope for the Beijing Olympics, has failed a drug test, the Italian Olympic Committee coni, said yesterday. The 22-year-old, who won the silver medal in the foil at the 2006 and 2007 World Championships, tested positive for the diuretic furosemide during...
Beijing OLYMPICS 2008 THE IAAF, world athletics' governing body, has banned seven leading Russian women after charging them with manipulating drug samples, a senior official said yesterday. "They are definitely suspended and will miss the Beijing Olympics," Russian Athletics Federation RAF president Valentin Balakhnichyov said. ...
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