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WASHINGTON, April 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The conviction of Barry Bonds last week, the 'retirement' of Manny Ramirez, and the ongoing investigations of Roger Clemens and Lance Armstrong are just the tip of the sports-drugs iceberg," Robert Weiner, former spokesman for the White House National Drug Policy Office, said today. Weiner, also a former spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency at the Olympics, gave the Ken Feinberg Distinguished History Lecture at the University of...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ProCon.org, a nonpartisan 501c3 nonprofit research organization, created a new website, http://sports.procon.org, to explore the question "Should performance enhancing drugs (such as steroids) be accepted in sports?" The online project contains nearly 30 questions about drugs in sports with over 250 sourced responses from more than 200 sports experts. Those experts include professional athletes (from Lance Armstrong to Gene Upshaw),...

Former U.S. sprinter Marion Jones has been released from a federal prison in Texas after serving a six-month term for lying to prosecutors about using steroids. Jones' sentence also included her knowledge of a check-fraud scam involving former boyfriend Tim Montgomery, another disgraced American sprinter. Jones had denied using steroids to federal prosecutors when questioned in 2003. She came clean last October during an emotional and tearful public statement to her family, friends, and...

By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The testing of former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones's 'B' sample should take place this week, her lawyer said on Monday. "It is going to be done the second half of this week," Howard Jacobs told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Los Angeles-area office. Jones's initial sample tested positive for the banned blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO) at the U.S. championships in Indianapolis in June. If the second sample is...

By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Olympic sprint champion Justin Gatlin said on Friday he expected to be cleared of doping charges brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). The American, in a statement released by his New York publicist, also said he expected to compete again. "I have put my faith in a system that I believe will clear my name and that I believe will allow me to compete again," the Olympic and world champion and joint 100 metres world...

By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Olympic sprint champion Justin Gatlin said on Friday he expected to be cleared of doping charges brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). The American, in a statement released by his New York publicist, also said he expected to compete again. "I have put my faith in a system that I believe will clear my name and that I believe will allow me to compete again," the Olympic and world champion and joint 100 meters world...

By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - American sprinter LaTasha Jenkins has failed a drugs test, the Chicago Tribune reported on its Web site on Thursday. Her "A" sample from an in-competition test in late July was found to contain traces of the anabolic steroid nandrolone, the newspaper said quoting unnamed sources. Jenkins, the 2001 world indoor silver medallist at 200 metres, could not be reached for comment but her coach Trevor Graham denied the Tribune report. "That...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Three world records have failed to make the official lists this year because organizers neglected to test for erythropoietin (EPO), the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said. IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss reiterated tests for the banned blood-boosting drug must follow all world record-breaking performances, saying a lack of knowledge about compulsory testing had lead to the rejection of the records. "This is not a new decision. It has...

By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones said on Monday she was shocked her initial drugs test from a sample taken in June was positive. Jones added she had requested the testing of her second 'B' sample be dealt with quickly. "I was shocked when I was informed about the positive 'A' sample," Jones said in the statement issued by her Los Angeles-area attorney Howard Jacobs. "I have requested that the testing of my 'B' sample be...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Triple Olympic champion Marion Jones said in a statement on Monday she was shocked her initial drugs test from a June sample was positive. She added she had requested the testing of her second sample be expedited. The comments, issued by attorney Howard Jacobs, were the first by Jones since sources said on Friday she had tested positive for the banned blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO).