FIFA and UEFA have issued a joint statement rejecting the stance taken by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) concerning the 'whereabouts' rule relating to doping controls.

The new WADA whereabouts rule requiring athletes to report their whereabouts more comprehensively is proving to be very unpopular. EU is urging WADA to reconsider the rule, UEFA director Platini recommends not to follow the rule and Belgian athletes have filed a court challenge to decide whether the rule is violating human rights.

The IOC charter states that “only sports that adopt and implement the anti-doping code, can be included or remain in the programme.” According to the minutes from a WADA executive board meeting in May 2008, IOC was aware that several countries and IFs were not compliant with the WADA anti-doping code when they competed in Beijing.

Cristiana Perez, wife of alleged doping doctor Dr Eufemiano Fuentes, claims that Spain owes much of its gold medal glory at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics to the work of her husband.

As one of the consequences of the Cold War from the end of World War II and up to 1989, the competition on the battlefield of sport became fiercer and fiercer, and at some point rumours started circulating in the west about female athletes, mainly from the eastern countries, who were not THAT female. Stories were told about specific athletes who never undressed together with other athletes, but came directly from their hotel, and went straight back for a shower, and of athletes who had a number of male features as for example a fast growing beard.

What do you get if you accuse an all-American sporting hero and cancer survivor of cheating? Job satisfaction, says LA Confidential author David Walsh.

Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants, recently broke Hank Aarons 33 year old home run record. Rather than uniting the American people in a coast-to-coast celebration of the sport, the new record holder has divided them into two; those who believe he is a clean athlete and those who believe he is not.

With the test methods that are known today, it is extremely difficult to detect doping with your own blood. But with a new blood doping test developed by Australian and Danish researchers, the era of blood doping might have limited days.