The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has agreed to carry out testing at the Tour de France in June.
Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. was banned nine months and fined $900,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission today for failing a drug test after his loss to Sergio "Maravilla" Martínez last September, Top Rank Boxing said.
German rider Grischa Niermann, who rode for the Rabobank team for 12 years, has admitted using banned substances to boost his performance, the Dutch cycling federation said.
Major League Baseball (MLB) said it was investigating a report alleging several high-profile players were sold performance-enhancing drugs by a South Florida anti-aging clinic.
Olympic champion Andy Murray is demanding more blood testing in tennis to avoid the kind of damaging doping scandals that continue to plague cycling.
His fall nearly complete, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong finally confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview on Monday with Oprah Winfrey, USA Today reported.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong said stepping down from his cancer foundation Livestrong was the worst moment he experienced in the entire fallout from his doping scandal.
Lance Armstrong's televised doping confession has done nothing to restore his shattered reputation, a study of responses posted to the Twitter social media site showed.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced it will not appeal against the decision to ban US cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles.
Lance Armstrong plans to admit to doping throughout his career in an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week, the American cyclist's first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, USA Today reported.
Former champion cyclist Lance Armstrong apologized to staff of the cancer foundation he founded today, the same day Oprah Winfrey is scheduled to interview him in what is widely expected to be his first admission of doping.
Lance Armstrong stepped down as chairman of the cancer support charity he founded, as Nike Inc dropped the disgraced cyclist over the doping scandal that will cost him his seven Tour de France titles.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) are expected to give their reaction on Monday to USADA's ruling that seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong doped throughout his career, the governing body said on Friday.
Norwegian cyclist Steffen Kjaergaard, who competed with the disgraced Lance Armstrong on the US Postal Service team in the Tour de France in 2000 and 2001, admitted to doping.
Canadian cyclist Michael Barry, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong's, said on Wednesday he was pressured to take performance-enhancing drugs for the US Postal Service Team
Unrepentant and seemingly unconcerned, Lance Armstrong was going about his business as usual as the cycling world was left reeling by the revelations about his alleged role as a doping ringleader.
Lance Armstrong paid for a motorcyclist to deliver the banned bloodbooster EPO to him during the 1999 Tour de France, former team mate Tyler Hamilton said in a BBC radio documentary broadcast.
US competitor Nick Delpopolo was expelled from the London Olympic Games after testing positive for marijuana and apologised to organisers, fans and fellow athletes for unwittingly eating a brownie that had been baked with the drug.
A US federal judge dismissed seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's effort to block a probe into whether the retired cycling champ cheated by using performance-enhancing drugs.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said he would no longer fight doping charges by the US Anti-Doping Agency, which quickly said it would strip him of his titles and ban him from competitive cycling.
Steeplechaser Angel Mullera has been dropped from the Spanish Olympic team while an investigation into a possible doping offence takes place, the country's athletics federation (RFEA) said.
Greece's world indoor high jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis has pulled out of the London Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, the athlete's father said.
China has vehemently rejected suggestions by a US coach that doping might be behind the astonishing performance of a Chinese swimmer as Michael Phelps, himself a former teen pool prodigy, bids to become the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Brive fullback Julien Caminati has been provisionally suspended after failing a dope test, the Top 14 club said. Brive did not say which banned substance was fond in Caminati's system.
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has notified seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong that formal procedures against him had commenced over allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs during his record-breaking career.
Luxembourg rider Frank Schleck is out of the Tour de France after testing positive for a diuretic, a spokesman for his RadioShack-Nissan team said.
Alberto Contador's Saxo Bank-Sungard team could be thrown out of cycling's World Tour after the Spaniard was given a two-year doping ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said.
Spain has a problem with doping in sport and the government will move quickly to bring its laws into line with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines to combat it, the country's new sports minister said.
A Spanish radio station has withdrawn an item broadcast last year in which it alleged Barcelona players were involved in illegal doping and has agreed to pay the club 200,000 euros ($268,500) in damages.
The Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) has decided to suspend Tour de France champion Alberto Contador for one year over his failed doping test in last year's race.
Alberto Contador is free to compete again after Spain's cycling federation (RFEC) lifted his one-year doping ban but the Tour de France champion still faces the threat of possible appeals by two global bodies.
Alberto Contador is considering appealing against the two-year ban he was handed by Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for failing a dope test during his victorious 2010 Tour de France campaign.