Estonian swimmer Anita Stepanenko and her coach Nikolai Borzov sanctioned. Stepanenko receives one-year ban, Borzov is banned for life
http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=67&Itemid=183
Four Italian athletes referred for punishment/fines—Achilles Massucotelli, Paul Alberati, John Amaru, and Joseph Gable
http://www.coni.it/attivit%C3%A0-istituzionali/antidoping/19403-antidoping-la-procura-dispone-quattro-deferimenti,-chiesti-2-anni-di-squalifica-per-achille-mazzucotelli-motonautica-e-paolo-alberati-ciclismo.html
Paula Radcliffe advocates four year bans for serious doping offenses, sanctioning of doping enablers. Says she would not vote for Turkey or Madrid to host the Olympics because of Turkey’s spate of doping positives, for which a country should also be sanctioned by the IOC with reduced entries to the Olympic Games, and Spain must allow the Operation Puerto blood bags to be investigated by WADA or like agency, not be destroyed. She also advocates criminalization of doping.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/10229422/World-Athletics-Championships-2013-Paula-Radcliffe-accuses-Turkey-of-child-abuse-over-doping-scandal.html
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/athletics/article3836983.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_08_07
IAAF ready to adopt four year bans for serious doping offenses
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/thomson-reuters/130807/iaaf-ready-return-four-year-doping-bans
Jamaica track team was not targeted for testing by IAAF in Moscow. All teams were informed prior to the World Championships that the baseline testing would occur at the event
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130807/sports/sports9.html
German NADA contacts retired cyclists Jan Ullrich and Erik Zabel in attempt to gather more information on what they may be able to contribute to anti-doping efforts
http://www.nada-bonn.de/de/nada/aktuelles/newsdetail/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=532&cHash=f122abcb14#.UgLritK2N48
Race for WADA presidency ends with nomination of IOC candidate on Friday
http://www.3wiresports.com/2013/08/07/on-the-wada-presidency/
Biogenesis
MLBPA files appeal in A-Rod/MLB/Biogenesis case
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBO_MLB_DRUG_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-07-20-10-37
Length of suspension was a sticking point in MLB/A-Rod/Biogenesis negotiations
A-Rod’s mistakes, not MLB testing program resulted in Biogenesis case sanctions
http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2013-08-05/alex-rodriguez-suspension-biogenesis-arod-peds-steroids-yankees
Vitriol directed at Rodriguez and Braun excessive, misdirected
http://www.isportstimes.com/articles/8234/20130806/alex-rodriguez-ryan-braun-art-self-preservation.htm
MLB cheats are thieves stealing accomplishments from clean players
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-08-06/news/bs-ed-baseball-suspensions-20130806_1_coral-gables-baltimore-orioles-steroid-use
MLB doping bans will aid baseball/softball bid to get back in the Olympics says WBSC
http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/2020-bidding-sports/350-baseball/1015416-record-drugs-bans-will-boost-baseball-softball-olympic-bid-claim-wbsc-officials
Explaining PED use to young kids: a teaching moment. Young users more an issue than what pro athlete is or isn’t “on the juice.”
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130807/SPORTS/308070316
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/aug/07/weeds-coumn/
Don Hooton has conflicted feelings about A-Rod
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/alex-rodriguez-suspension-hits-twice-as-hard-for-a-still-grieving-parent/2013/08/06/109e564c-fee4-11e2-9a3e-916de805f65d_story.html
Is telling lies in your autobiography a crime?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/cycling/2013/08/07/lance-armstrong-books-doping/2629895/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-07/the-dumbest-lawsuit-yet-about-lance-armstrong
ACC
Aussie sports drug free reputation eroding in wake of recent discoveries, ACC report, ASADA investigation
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl/australias-standing-as-drug-free-slowly-being-eroded-away-after-scandals-in-afl-nrl-and-cycling/story-fnia3gpf-1226692369076
Stephen Dank threatens to sue ASADA as well as AFL boss Andrew Demetriou and the Essendon management. Judge admonished Dank while dropping Dank’s lawsuit against sports scientist and doctor ordering Dank to pay court costs
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/stephen-dank-threatens-to-sue-asada-warns-anti-doping-agency-could-be-in-modicum-of-bother/story-e6frfkp9-1226693275873
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/judge-warns-stephen-dank-to-back-off-legal-claims/story-e6frg7mf-1226693141949
Wave of current doping scandals prompts calls for action against PED use in sports
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/sports/363344/a-succession-of-doping-cases-prompts-call-for-action
Bundesliga plans to begin blood testing this season
http://www.dw.de/bundesliga-to-start-using-anti-doping-blood-tests-on-soccer-players/a-17004819
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2013/08/07/sp-soccer-bundesliga-blood-testing-doping.html
Ex German Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher denies knowledge of doping despite being named in research report
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/studie-genscher-bestreitet-von-doping-gewusst-zu-haben-a-915376.html
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/dopingstudie-belastet-ex-innenminister-genscher-a-915261.html
German rower who is infamous for the “Kolbe syringe,” Peter-Michael Kolbe interviewed
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/der-fruehere-ruderer-peter-michael-kolbe-zum-thema-doping-a-915317.html
Cyclist Stefan Schumacher accuses doctors of lying about their involvement in Gerolsteiner team doping
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/radsport-schumacher-wirft-zeugen-falschaussage-vor-a-915346.html
FIFA denies doping is a problem in the sport, but the German research suggests that was not the case
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/doping-im-fussball-dfb-tut-sich-schwer-mit-kontrollen-a-915107.html
“A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/sport/cornwall/10596573.The_Captain__Drugs/
More than ever sports demand a suspension of disbelief and/or a premise built upon an untruth
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TIM_DAHLBERG_080713?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-07-18-52-19
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/scribes-in-the-time-of-steroids.html
Trainer Gerard Butler, who admitted injecting horses with “Sungate,” but nine horse trainers will not be charged after BHA investigates doping of 43 horses and says that the trainers acted on the advice of doctors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/23605490
