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Outside July 2005 Brian Alexander	The Awful Truth About Drugs in Sports Drug-testing expert Don Catlin is the doping detective who helped break the BALCO scandal wide open- and the man who's about to launch a radical new campaign to finally solve the problem of drugs in sports.
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 Arlene Weintraub	Can Drug-Busters Beat New Steroids? Scientists enlisted by anti-doping agencies are trying to stay a step ahead of the cheaters as the Athens Olympics approach.
Wired January 2007 Mark McClusky	The Righteous Fury of Dick Pound As head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this man is on a crusade to rid elite sports of performance-enhancing drugs. And he's making a few enemies along the way.
Chemistry World July 2, 2012 Michael Stow	Protecting the spirit of competition With the London 2012 Olympics now upon us, the issue of doping in sport is once more in the media spotlight. As new therapies emerge from the pharmaceutical industry, we must be vigilant for new doping threats and new and improved detection methods are continually investigated and developed.
Chemistry World January 23, 2009 Ned Stafford	Outwitting the doping cheats of the future Biochemists at the German Sport University in Cologne have developed an anti-doping test for a drug candidate in early development that may counteract muscle fatigue and potentially enhance athletic performance.
Chemistry World July 18, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	New drug test misses Olympic deadline A biomarker-based test has been developed to detect athletes that have used banned drugs long after the compounds themselves become undetectable - but it won't be approved in time for the Beijing Olympics.
Reason April 2007 Ronald Bailey	Testing Your Strength The World Anti-Doping Agency is developing tests for a form of cheating that doesn't exist yet. The agency banned gene doping, the alteration of genes to enhance athletic performance.
Outside November 2003 Stuart Stevens	Drug Test Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist out to try them and report back.
Chemistry World March 8, 2007 Jessica Ebert	How to Catch an Insulin-Doping Athlete A growing number of athletes reportedly take insulin to boost their performance illegally, but controlling insulin abuse has gone largely unchecked. Now, a urine test designed by German and Belgian scientists could be set to change all that.
Chemistry World June 22, 2006	Ethicist Approves Performance Enhancing Drugs A leading ethicist has questioned the value of banning some of the sports drugs listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. It's a view rejected strenuously by former Olympian Linford Christie, who tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in 1999.
Chemistry World June 27, 2012	Chemistry and the Olympics Emma Davies looks into the vital role chemistry will play during the Olympic and Paralympic games
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 Emma Stoye	Super sensitive test hones in on performance enhancing drugs A new technique that increases the sensitivity of mass spectrometry could make it harder for athletes to cheat, by identifying minute traces of banned drug metabolites in urine that would otherwise go undetected.
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004	"We're as Good as the Bad Guys" Scientist Don Catlin says drug testing can be "just days" behind the people designing new performance enhancers for athletes.
Sports Illustrated August 3, 2000	IOC to target EPO dopers ...the International Olympic Committee will conduct tests for the cutting-edge performance enhancer erythropoietin...
Outside January 2010 Brian Alexander	Good Cop, Bad Cop A growing number of critics contend that WADA, the international agency that oversees drug testing in sports, has become overzealous and arrogant, sometimes trampling the civil liberties of athletes in the process.
Sports Central November 29, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's HGH Test More Smoke and Mirrors Major League Baseball's latest feat of extended "labor peace" with the Major League Players Association was reached on November 22, 2011.
Outside June 2004 Heil & Bradley	Spinning in Their Graves The Tour's new scandal: Elite cyclists are mysteriously dropping dead.
AskMen.com Jose Espinoza	Only Drug Testing Can Save Boxing The sport needs a drug-testing regimen to save itself financially. "...the fight that was "supposed to save boxing" was canceled because both sides couldn't agree on a fair drug-testing schedule."
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov	Victor Conte Interview We caught up with Victor Conte, possibly the most infamous non-athlete associated with steroids, to find out if the next generation of athletes are destined to raise the bar by juicing, just as snowboarders and tennis players do by continuously getting improved equipment?
Sports Illustrated September 13, 2000 Frank Deford	A culture of 'sus' So overwhelming is the perception that drugs sustain most Olympic athletes, that it really doesn't matter how much the well is poisoned. Almost every record and every winner is sus. Sus, a shortened version of the word "suspicious," is, so far as I know, only used in Olympic circles.
Chemistry World February 23, 2006 Henry Nicholls	Mind-Altering Drugs at the Olympics As further evidence of performance-enhancing drug use at the Winter Olympics in Turin emerges, researchers have unveiled the first study to quantify the psychological effects of taking recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) on endurance athletes.
Popular Mechanics February 11, 2009 Allen St. John	Alex Rodriguez's Drug of Choice: A Close Look at Primobolan and Its Effects Since the shocking report of Alex Rodriguez using performance-enhancing drugs, there has been little of how he might have benefited. Here's a closer look at the drug that was discovered in A-Rod's urine samples.
Sports Illustrated May 25, 2000 Tim Layden	An artificial edge? Athletes try anything in quest to be the best
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov	Top 10: Steroid Excuses Athletes are known for their physical gifts and not their intellectual aptitude, which explains why there have been so many far-fetched steroid excuses over the years. These top 10 steroid excuses have been used by many athletes.
AskMen.com Andrew Tilin	Doping And The Tour de France Maybe Lance Armstrong should tell the truth about his past. Or maybe people should learn a bit about the history of doping and lay off Lance.
Wired September 2000 Andrew Tilin	Ready, Set, Mutate! International jock police should forget about controlling technology's impact on sports. It's the 21st century - let the augmentations begin. We've compiled a cutting-edge athlete's duffel of techno-enhanced clothing, equipment, and drugs that will help the world's athletes mine gold...
Outside July 2008 Michael Hall	There Will Be Blood. Clean Blood. Team Slipstream thinks it can save cycling with a drug-testing program unlike anything else in sports. I wasn't so sure -- until I wound up living with their team captain at the Tour of California. Pass the remote.
Sports Illustrated August 8, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve	Inside Olympics Competition will be fierce when America's best dive into the Olympic trials
AskMen.com October 4, 2000 Mark Simmons	Olympic Drug Scandals Ah, the beautiful Olympic games: great athleticism, camaraderie and professionalism. But come every four years, the not-so-glamorous drugs also make their unwanted appearance...
Outside February 2006 Bill Gifford	Is California Dreamin'? The Golden State gets set to host America's richest bike race ever.
Chemistry World January 11, 2012 Hayley Birch	Drive towards detecting drugs at the roadside The UK government is setting up an advisory panel that will assess the feasibility of roadside testing for drug driving, similar to testing for drunk driving.
Sports Illustrated April 15, 2003 Layden & Yaeger	Playing Favorites? An ex-USOC official says some athletes were allowed to bend the drug rules.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Pro Video Gamers Will Now Be Subject To Drug Tests The Electronic Sports League announced that it will start screening professional video game players for performance-enhancing drugs at a competition this August.
Outside December 2005 Joe Lindsey	J'Accuse Over the coming months Lance Armstrong will confront his accusers in courtrooms and legal proceedings in the U.S., England, and France.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Seth Jayson	Watching Wall Street's Dopers The cheating in athletic competition is not so different from the cheating on Wall Street. Investors must learn to recognize two of the most common ways businesses dope their numbers.
Entrepreneur June 2004 Geoff Williams	Urine the Money One athlete's waste is this company's treasure.
Sports Illustrated October 11, 2002 Tim Layden	Marathon (wo)man Paula Radcliffe is running into a potential firestorm. She may destroy the women's world record in Sunday's Chicago Marathon. But, if she runs too fast, people will assume that she must be using performance-enhancing drugs.
Chemistry World October 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Taming erythropoietin through synthesis US researchers have produced a fully synthetic version of erythropoietin, the glycoprotein responsible for regulating blood cell production.
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005	Putting the FDA Out Front Deputy Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock explains how the agency has led the drive for personalized medicine.
Sports Illustrated December 5, 2000 Rick Reilly	Paralympic Paradox You thought there was a boatload of cheaters at the Sydney Olympics? You should've seen what happened when the Games were over. That's when the worst cheaters of all arrived -- the paralympians...
American Family Physician August 1, 2002 Mark W. Niedfeldt	Managing Hypertension in Athletes and Physically Active Patients Athletes and other physically active patients should be screened for hypertension and given appropriate therapy if needed.
Reason April 2009 Anderson & Jackson	Putting Stars Behind Bars How did breaking sports rules become a federal offense?
AskMen.com October 21, 2015 Matt Chappell	Doping In Sport 2015 Nearly three years on from the scandal that was the Lance Armstrong confession, the journalist that spent 13 years of his life trying to bring him down, David Walsh, still has his eye on the ball.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Brian Gorman	The Drug Cost Conundrum While drug prices continue to climb, the public and its representatives in government are demanding cheaper pharmaceuticals. The industry is not likely to find cover in Medicare biotechnology. Instead, investors should look for drug makers that are finding ways to operate leaner and meaner.
Sports Central February 19, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	Looks Like Lance, Inc. Too Big to Fail For nearly a two-year period, the U.S. Department of Justice invested untold millions of dollars, at taxpayer expense, for various investigations pertinent to Lance Armstrong.