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Wastewater Could Hold Key to Catching Future Olympic Cheats

London’s Olympic Village in June 2008 was but a skeleton outline, marked by scant concrete pilings. Yet, by the time the opening ceremonies kick off in the summer of 2012, state-of-the-art educational...

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Doping Bombshell Could Signal Cycling’s Turning Point

Cycling champion Lance Armstrong has long denied ingesting performance-enhancing drugs and engaging in blood doping, but allegations from a former teammate suggest that not only did Armstrong lie and...

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Stem Cells Hold Promise for Injured Athletes, But Questions Remain

The resurgence of one previously out-of-work major league pitcher has increased demand for a controversial new procedure utilizing stem cells that could usher in advances in athletic-injury treatment...

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Olympic Doping: The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Games

Olympic organizers have launched their most aggressive anti-doping campaign ever, an ambitious plan to test half of the 10,000-plus athletes using their latest tool, the biological passport.

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Armstrong Throws in the Towel, Loses Titles to Doping Allegations

One of the most celebrated cyclists in history finally ends a war of attrition with doping police, who on Friday vacated every race he'd ever ridden.

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How Armstrong Could ‘Get Away With Stuff With Everybody Looking’

How a man who passed (almost) every drug test could be labeled a drug cheater and stripped of seven Tour de France titles.

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How Sports Would Be Better With Doping

A look at what it would mean for sports if we all accepted that doping is a routine occurrence and simply legalized it.

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Doping Police Have a Powerful New Weapon in War Against Cheaters

The fight against doping leaps ahead with a test for human growth hormone that increases the odds of detecting a drug once considered largely untraceable.

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Opinion: Lance Armstrong and the Prisoners’ Dilemma of Doping in Pro Sports

Drug testing is a security issue. Various sports federations around the world do their best to detect illegal doping, and players do their best to evade the tests. It's a classic security arms race.

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Why Lance Armstrong’s Confession Should Make You Worry

Lance-o-Rama has broken out again. But this time, we’re getting a confession. On air. On Oprah. Tonight. While many other people speculate about this being his first step towards redemption, a...

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