Lance Armstrong’s former team-mate Tyler Hamilton believes the disgraced cyclist is “not 100 per cent” sorry.

One of Lance Armstrong’s biggest critics today dismissed the former cyclist’s public show of contrition, labelling him “delusional”.

It’s over a fortnight now since actor Gabriel Byrne denounced The Gathering as a ‘scam’ on national radio.

ARSENE WENGER has claimed Kolo Toure “made a mistake” in taking a banned substance — but a leading expert on drugs in sport does not feel that defence alone will be enough to clear the Manchester City star.

Cyclist David Millar has been given the green light to compete for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games after appealing against his life ban.

Edinburgh have signed Scott MacLeod after the Scotland lock was released by the Scarlets.

Players’ union boss Gordon Taylor is to contact the Football Association to register concerns about plans for proposed new drug-testing procedures.

PLAYERS’ chiefs have served notice that they will fight plans for the Premier League’s top stars to be tested for drug use in their own homes.

Players’ chiefs have served notice that they will fight plans for the Premier League’s top stars to be tested for drug use in their own homes.

England footballers and other Premier League stars face a raft of extra drug tests under a new crackdown being planned by their sport’s authorities, it was reported today.

Irish Football Association president Raymond Kennedy is taking on the mantle of chief executive in addition to his own role – until Thursday at least.

Irish Football Association president Raymond Kennedy is taking on the mantle of chief executive in addition to his own role – until Thursday at least.

Howard Wells has been sacked as the Irish Football Association’s chief executive, the governing body have announced.

The Beijing Olympics will open today, firing the starting gun for the world’s ultimate sporting competition.

Drugs in sport could be criminalised ahead of the London 2012 Olympics, organisers have confirmed.

Britain’s anti-doping chief Andy Parkinson is “massively concerned” that the rewards on offer at the London 2012 Olympics will tempt home athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Two New Zealanders playing club rugby in Scotland, Justin Matheson and Josh Abraham, have been banned from the game for the maximum two years after testing positive for drugs.

Dwain Chambers is likely to decide in the next few days whether to challenge his lifetime Olympic suspension by taking legal action against the British Olympic Association's by-law.

Drug cheat Dwain Chambers has been told to come clean over what he knows about the use of banned substances by athletes in order to help in the battle to eradicate it from the sport.

World indoor 60 metres silver medallist Dwain Chambers, who won his battle to race in Valencia, is almost certain to take legal action in a bid to run in this summer’s Olympic Games.

Scotland lock Scott Macleod has been warned and reprimanded after testing positive for the drug Terbutaline – an asthma medication which is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list.

A professional footballer has been banned for two years for refusing to take a drugs test, but his identity is being kept secret for fear he may harm himself.

Coventry’s Samoan international Apoua Stewart has received a two-year ban after testing positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine.

BELFAST athlete Gareth Turnbull has been given permission to resume racing even though there is as yet no verdict following the doping charge against him.

UK Sport will announce this afternoon exactly how much money Britain’s summer Olympic sports, bar tennis and football, will receive in preparation for London 2012.

OVERSEAS coaches recruited to work in British sports are set to be screened to ensure they are not tainted by drugs.

An international goalkeeper who refused to take a drugs test has been suspended indefinitely by the Football Association.

A footballer who has been banned for six months after twice testing positive for cocaine first returned a positive finding early last year and appeared before a disciplinary hearing in August.

A footballer has been banned for six months after twice testing positive for cocaine.

Chelsea today sacked shamed striker Adrian Mutu after he failed a random drug last month.

The Football Association this morning refused to confirm reports that Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has been charged for failing a drugs test.

Shamed Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu is reported to have been charged by the Football Association and suspended by the club.

FIFA will keep a watchful eye on the Adrian Mutu case to ensure the Football Association impose a minimum six-month ban on the Chelsea striker should claims that he has tested positive for cocaine be proven.

A PREMIERSHIP player has tested positive for a banned substance, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Britain’s 271 Olympic competitors are each to be given a medical pack of ’safe’ drugs to treat minor ailments while they are in Athens and warned not to buy off-the-shelf products from local chemists.

FA CHIEFS were yesterday quizzed by MPs over why Rio Ferdinand is still being paid a “massive salary” by Manchester United despite being suspended for eight months for missing a drugs test.

Rio Ferdinand’s former West Ham manager Harry Redknapp has labelled the eight-month drugs ban meted out to the Manchester United and England defender “harsh”.

Rio Ferdinand’s eight-month suspension for failing to take a drugs test is either “very draconian” or very light – depending on which expert observer you listen to.

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand was today banned for eight months, starting from Monday, January 12, for missing a drugs test.

Alex Ferguson swept into Bolton’s Reebok Stadium this lunchtime to lend his weight to Rio Ferdinand’s battle to avoid suspension over his failure to take a drugs test.

Rio Ferdinand arrived an hour early for his misconduct hearing at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium.

RIO FERDINAND’S drugs case could force the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) to pull out of their official testing programme with UK Sport.

Rio Ferdinand’s drugs case could force the Professional Footballers’ Association to pull out of their official testing programme with UK Sport.