Former Danish cyclist Jesper Skibby has admitted to doping during his professional career in the 1990’s. The confession came in an autobiography published last week. Skibby wants to stop living on a lie and in the book he reveals all about his doping use but does not say who supplied the drugs and helped him avoid testing positive.

The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA and Interpol, the world’s largest police organisation, have announced that they will start working closely together to combat the growing problems with trafficking of doping substances.

The beleaguered cycling sport is breaking new paths in its attempts to combat doping and restore public trust. The German Cycling Federation, BDR, has decided that all professional cyclists riding for German teams must submit to a control system using blood profiles by 2007. Meanwhile Team CSC has signed up a Danish anti-doping expert to set up a new anti-doping regime.

A Swedish anti-doping organisation has lost its director, former athlete Sven Nylander, after Nylander was picked up by the police for sniffing cocaine. A serious problem for the organisation Ren Idrott - Clean Sport - whose main working method is to make examples of top athletes who say no to doping.

Chinese anti-doping officials have uncovered a case of collective doping at a sports school for young athletes in the Liaoning province. On a surprise visit to the school, officials found steroids and EPO and saw school staff inject teenage students with banned substances. The case highlights China’s special doping problem amongst junior athletes.

The Spanish authorities owe the world an explanation for how it has handled the publication of information about the investigation of the blood doping scheme in Spain. So says Jens Evald, chairman of Anti-Doping Denmark, who is deeply concerned about the legal rights of the cyclists named in the investigation.

Knowledge bank: With the emergence of genetic enhancement technologies that can be used on athletes, it is necessary to change our approach to anti-doping too.

Knowledge bank: Athletes are too often willing to compromise their own health to win. How many athletes who are already experimenting with gene doping is hard to trace. Many athletes are closely monitoring the developments in genetic research.