First, though, a major doping scandal has hit the Tour de France, a day before the race begins.
She was banned two years for her involvement in the BALCO doping scandal.
Lance Armstrong admitted to the doping scandal that ended his career .
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Numerous commenters pretended to be Lance Armstrong and thanked Te'o for distracting the media from the cycling champion's doping scandal.
Yet again, a doping scandal will keep him from the Tour podium.
Long before the doping scandal broke, Armstrong had a complicated personal brand.
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After a doping scandal prevented his former team, Liberty Seguros, from competing last year, Alexander Vinokourov, the leader of the Switzerland-based team, Astana, came back with a vengeance.
Chambers, banned for two years after being caught in the BALCO doping scandal, clocked a swift 10 seconds flat to hold off the challenge of promising youngster Simeon Williamson.
Baseball is reeling from its latest doping scandal, too.
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"Vino" was poised to be a top contender in last year's Tour, but when five of his nine teammates were implicated in a doping scandal, his team found themselves without enough riders to compete.
Meanwhile, the fallout from the Armstrong doping scandal -- which led to the American being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and told to pay back millions of dollars in prize money and sponsorships -- continues in the world of cycling.
The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal exposed his doping and subsequently led to his 9.78 seconds record time being dropped from the books.
But he did not refer directly to the scandal in his first speech since the US Anti-Doping Agency named him as the central figure in a major doping ring.
The company stuck by Woods after his cheating scandal broke in 2009, but ended its sponsorship deal with Armstrong on the heels of his doping admission.
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On Thursday the National Rugby League became embroiled in scandal after Sydney-based club the Cronulla Sharks said they were assisting the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority after reports that up to 14 of their players could be using banned drugs.
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