IOL (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
South Africa's poor Beijing Olympic results need to be examined without "stones being thrown at each other", SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee President Moss Mashishi has said.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to retest all blood samples from the Beijing Games using a new detection system developed for the Tour de France.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The International Olympic Committee said it would retest blood samples collected from athletes at the Beijing Games to check for a new blood-boosting drug most often used by endurance athletes.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
THE Zimbabwe Olympic Committee are going places. Barely a few weeks after announcing that they will soon be establishing an Olympic Park as part of their expansion programme, ZOC yesterday revealed that they were in the process of setting up an Olympic Museum and Sports Library in Harare.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nearly half the countries that participated in the Beijing Olympics failed to tell organizers where their athletes were so they could be drug tested outside of competition.
Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
LONDON - Any athletes who thought they got away with doping at the Beijing Olympics shouldn't rest easy. The drug police are coming back.
1UP (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
First, Johnson & Johnson, then Electronic Arts, now the United States Olympic Committee -- such is the career of Larry Probst. The Associated Press is reporting that the former CEO of EA will replace Peter Ueberroth as the chairman of USOC's board. Ueberroth believes Probst's history with EA, a company whose revenue he helped grow from $175 million to $3 billion during his 16 years as...
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Former CEO of monolithic publisher Electronic Arts, Larry Probst, now has a new job heading the US Olympic Committee. He will be tasked with garnering financial support in the country’s current unstable economy, as well as helping Chicago secure its bid to host the 2016 Summer Games. "He brings to us a number of skills," [...]
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Doping samples taken during the Olympic Games are to be re-tested after a banned substance was detected by a new method following this year’s Tour de France.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The International Olympic Committee said it would retest blood samples collected from athletes at the Beijing Games to check for a new blood-boosting drug most often used by endurance athletes.
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
UK Sport have welcomed reports that samples provided for doping tests at the Beijing Olympics are to be retested for the previously undetected drug Cera.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
More cheats could yet be exposed from the Beijing Olympics after a decision to retest urine samples collected at the Games.
ISAF News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
With exactly one year to go until the opening of the 13th Olympic Congress in Copenhagen, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques ROGGE speaks of his expectations for the event as the Congress logo, a stylised heart reflecting the Congress motto, "Taking the Pulse", was unveiled.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The future of men's road cycling in the Olympics could be threatened unless the sport cleans up its doping record.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
LONDON -- The future of men's road cycling in the Olympics could be threatened unless the sport cleans up its doping record.
