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Why Doping in Sports Continues

Why Doping in Sports Continues 0

Richard Pound As the 2012 Summer Games in London approach, the fight against doping continues. Despite notable progress in testing and enforcement, we’re still a great distance from the eradication of steroid use in sports. In order to close the gap between the testers and …

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Drama on ice, take two: American skater hopes to represent Lithuania in Olympics

Drama on ice, take two: American skater hopes to represent Lithuania in Olympics 0

Katherine Copely and Isabella Tobias are two American ice skaters whose fate brought them into contact with a small and distant country, Lithuania. For one of them, the experience was dire and already over. For the other, it is still open for opportunities, 15min.lt reports. …

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Doping marathon runner stripped of gold medal, banned from competition 0

Lithuanian marathon runner Zivile Balciunaite has been stripped of her European Athletics Championship gold medal and will be banned from competition for two years following a testosterone doping scandal. The Lithuanian Athletic Federation (LAF) handed down the verdict after an investigation into whether Balciunaite had …

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