Planned new drug testing procedures will cost the Football Association a fortune and be a logistical nightmare to implement, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said on Friday.
Ferguson supported the principle of stringent testing to keep drugs out of football but said forcing players to notify testers of their whereabouts for an hour a day would be difficult.
The measures are due to be introduced next year under the new World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code which comes into force from January 1.
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A Madrid court closed the Operation Puerto investigation into a doping ring in cycling without a single conviction Thursday after concluding no criminal offences had been comm...More>
The Amateur Boxing Association of England has become the first governing body in the UK to publish World Anti-Doping Code compliant rules for 2009. This follows UK Sport’s pub...More>
Indian media is no exception in the way it sensationalises occurrences of drug-taking among sportspersons and this is a global phenomena, says former Olympian Linford Christie...More>
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed four international sports federations to conduct blood screenings on athletes during the Beijing Olympics to determine wh...More>
Madrid's bid to win the 2016 Olympics is strengthened by Spain's determination to crack down on doping after several high-profile doping cases tarnished the country's athletes...More>
Saunier Duval officially announced on Thursday that they were withdrawing their sponsorship of the cycling team that bears their name because of doping scandals.
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French anti-doping chief Pierre Bordry has not ruled out further positive tests in the Tour de France but said he believed cycling would be cleaner after the race finish in Pa...More>
South African industrial group Barloworld will end their cycling team sponsorship after the Tour de France following a positive dope test by one of their riders on the three-w...More>
A BBC investigation has found that there are serious question marks over a key drug test just two weeks before the start of the Beijing Olympics.
The BBC has seen indicati...More>
The United States' new athletics chief Doug Logan pledged on Friday to drive doping cheats out of sport.
Logan was named CEO of USA Track & Field (USATF) on Thursday to rep...More>
The Tour de France was hit by doping again on Wednesday when Moises Duenas Nevado of the Barloworld team became the second Spaniard to test positive for the blood-boosting ery...More>
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) emphasised on wednesday that the anti-doping effort at the Beijing Summer Games will be more extensive than ever. More than 4,500 te...More>
UEFA has announced that the doping tests for UEFA EURO 2008™ were all negative. In the testing programme, a total of 286 urine and blood tests were conducted by UEFA doping co...More>
The Tour de France, still reeling from last year's doping affairs, will face the daunting task of restoring cycling's image when it starts its three-week journey of more than ...More>
