For several years, it was not so much smoke but thick clouds of cynicism that hung over Salazar’s work as head coach at the Nike Oregon Project.

Travis Tygart will forever be known as the man who brought Lance Armstrong down. The USADA chief executive explains how he has managed to retain his love for sport despite all he’s uncovered

Both at home and further afield, it’s been a busy few day in the world of anti-doping.

The inevitable admission of doping by Lance Armstrong has raised a whole series of issues for the UCI and sports administrators in general in the fight to keep sport clean.

UCI president Pat McQuaid has dismissed Greg LeMond’s challenge to his authority as “populist” and destined to fail.

Regarding Martin Owens’ letter (Aug 10) to the effect that Michell Smith DeBrun was our greatest Olympian.

Usain Bolt has hit out at people who make claims about the use of performance enhancing drugs in athletics, and has “lost all respect” for former Olympic champion Carl Lewis.

Des O’Driscoll picks his highlights from the coming week’s TV schedule

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has made furious attacks on former team-mates, the broadcaster CBS and a federal investigator after the latest drug claims against him.

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has again strenuously denied the latest doping allegations levelled against him by Floyd Landis, in a statement issued on his personal website.

Usain Bolt insists he is not offended by the cynics who will always question whether his amazing achievements are being achieved without the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Disgraced Olympic athlete Marion Jones has been released from a Texas jail.

USA Track & Field will send a drug-free team to Beijing next month for the Olympic Games, according to the governing body’s acting chief executive Bill Roe.

The athletics coach at the centre of the BALCO scandal is expected in a United States district court in San Francisco today.

FORMER Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for his role in a cheque-fraud scheme.

Sprinter Maurice Greene has denied reports linking him to performance-enhancing drugs, describing the claims as “messed up”.

Controversial Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou has been awarded a 100m silver medal from the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton after the disgraced Marion Jones was stripped of all her medals having admitted use of the banned steroid THG.

Marion Jones reported to the Federal Medical Center Carswell yesterday, four days before she was required to begin serving her six-month prison sentence.

THE spectacular fall from grace of Marion Jones, the 32-year-old US sprinter who was sentenced to six months in prison last week for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use, is a reminder of how difficult it can be to take professional athletics seriously in the modern era.

Marion Jones has today been sentenced to six months in prison.

International Olympic chiefs have declared their intention to join the fight against illegal betting on sports events.

Marion Jones has been formally stripped of her five Olympic medals, but the IOC have postponed a decision on whether her relay team-mates will lose their medals.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have cleared the way for disgraced drugs cheat Marion Jones to be stripped of her Sydney Olympic Games medals by annulling all her results back to 2000.

CLIVE WOODWARD failed to impress Chris Boardman with a single idea to improve Britain’s chances in the 2012 Olympics, the 1992 gold medal-winning cyclist told politicians.

Marion Jones has returned all five Olympic medals she captured during the 2000 Games in Sydney, according to reports in the United States.

IAAF president Lamine Diack believes disgraced American sprinter Marion Jones will be remembered as “one of the biggest frauds in sporting history”.

Marion Jones, the American athletics star, is facing a prison sentence after admitting lying about not taking drugs.

MARION JONES is expected to plead guilty to using steroids in the build-up to the 2000 Olympic games.

Marion Jones is expected to plead guilty on Friday to using steroids in the build-up to the 2000 Olympic games.

The top American coach accused of making false statements to federal agents about his athletes using drugs has pleaded not guilty to magistrates in San Francisco.

Marion Jones is almost certain to compete for the United States at the IAAF World Cup in Athens next weekend.

Marion Jones could still face a fight to clear her name from drugs charges despite producing a negative B test sample for the banned blood-boosting substance EPO last week.

OLYMPIC 100m champion Justin Gatlin must serve a minimum drugs ban of four years, says the world governing body.

JUSTIN GATLIN will be stripped of his share of the 100 metres world record if he is found guilty of a doping offence, the International Amateur Athletics Federation have confirmed.

American sprinter Marion Jones is at the centre of a new drugs controversy after her withdrawal from last night’s Weltklasse meeting in Zurich.

ALISTAIR CRAGG took another big step towards European gold this summer with a personal best in a historic 5,000 metres in New York.

The decision to ban American sprinters Tim Montgomery and Chryste Gaines for two years each has been hailed as “a great day for clean athletes” by the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

FORMER 100 metres world record-holder Tim Montgomery and three-time world sprint relay champion Chryste Gaines have been banned for two years after being found guilty of doping offences by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

American sprinting endured an agonising night at the USA Track and Field Championships as Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin was disqualified from his heat before being re-instated.

World 100m record holder Tim Montgomery and former Olympic champion Marion Jones made little impact on their return to action in Mexico.

Tim Montgomery is set to race in Europe shortly before he is due to appear before the Court for Arbitration in Sport for a hearing into alleged drugs offences.

Marion Jones will compete in the Grand Prix Regione Lombardia in Milan on June 1 despite reports she would not be invited to compete in European meetings.

Marion Jones will compete in the Grand Prix Regione Lombardia in Milan on June 1 despite reports she would not be invited to compete in European meetings.

The agent of Marion Jones insists he is not aware of plans to exclude the former triple Olympic champion from European meetings because of links to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO).

FORMER Olympic and world champion Marion Jones had a dismal return to the track when she finished last over 400metres in her first race of the season.

Former Olympic and world champion Marion Jones had a dismal return to the track when she finished last over 400metres in her first race of the season.

A United States judge has rejected a request to dismiss charges against the main defendants in the Balco steroid case.

Multiple swimming world record holder Ian Thorpe believes athletics would not be embroiled in the ongoing Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) drugs scandal if officials had dealt with the drugs issue earlier.

THE lawyer for Marion Jones has challenged the man who alleged he supplied the former Olympic sprint champion with performance-enhancing drugs to take a lie detector test.

Marion Jones has filed a multi-million euro lawsuit for defamation against the man who alleged he supplied the former Olympic sprint champion with performance-enhancing drugs.