With all the recent headline stories about sports doping, there's one you may have missed.
And as professionals, whose livelihood depended on results, and where testing was either non-existent or a step behind the latest advances in sports doping, it is unsurprising that so many succumbed.
Torri has a reputation for being uncompromising in the battle against doping, having charged sports personalities in the past even when they argued that their positive tests were the result of accidents.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority said in October that nine unidentified Australian athletes had tested positive for methylhexaneamine.
The government said it planned to boost the powers of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and allocate more resources to investigating drug use.
Sports Minister Kate Lundy said sports organisations would be encouraged to establish "integrity units" and engage the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency and law enforcement agencies to root out the problems.
Earlier this month, the government released a report from the country's crime commission containing allegations of "widespread" doping across a range of sports, but mainly Australian Rules Football and rugby league.
Since the release of the report, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) has informed six rugby league teams (Manly, Cronulla, Newcastle, Canberra, North Queensland and Penrith) and one Aussie Rules club (Essendon) that they are under investigation.
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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Mr. Armstrong was stripped of his titles last year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which polices drug use in American sports, initiated formal charges against him for allegedly conspiring to run an organized doping program aimed at dominating the Tour de France.
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As the Code is a non-government document that applies only to members of sports organisations, the Convention provides the legal framework under which governments can address specific areas of the doping problem that are outside the domain of the sports movement.
They will also undertake a survey to assess the level of compliance of 50 sports federations with anti-doping regulations and the World Anti-Doping Code.
In an interview with CNN, Ings called the report a "wake-up call" for sports and suggested that other countries should take a look at their own sports programs to check for doping and corruption.
USADA, which has no subpoena power, went ahead with its investigation anyway, using the threat of sports sanctions to ultimately uncover the doping conspiracy.
Last year, the United States Anti-Doping Agency barred him for life from Olympic sports and stripped him of his seven Tour de France medals.
One of the leading figures in the UK's fight against doping is Michele Verroken, former director of ethics and anti-doping at UK Sport, and founder of sports business consultancy Sporting Integrity.
Funding has, for example, been provided to Senegal for a training programme targeted at medical and paramedical personnel, former elite athletes, and managers of sports federations to become anti-doping focal points.
Less than a year later, a report commissioned by the UCI said that the tests shouldn't have been conducted at all and couldn't be acted upon because they weren't performed according to the organization's official drug-testing protocols, which are mandated for all Olympic sports by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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One of Usada's accusations was that Mr. Armstrong's doping program was the most sophisticated in all of sports.
He argued USADA, a nonprofit organization that polices drug use in American sports, had no authority to bring a doping case against him or to strip him of his titles.
Last month, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency banned Dr. Ferrari from working in Olympic sports for allegedly administering performance-enhancing drugs to cyclists when he was acting as a training consultant to cyclist Lance Armstrong during his Tour de France wins.
At the same time, legalizing PEDs would make life much easier for professional sports organizations currently tasked with managing convoluted anti-doping policies.
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Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year and banned from professional sports for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Mr. Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year and banned from professional sports for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Since 2004, when doping allegations against Armstrong first came to light in a book by French sports journalist Pierre Ballester, the foundation has experienced steady year-to-year revenue growth, according to financial records, with the exception of a dip from 2005 to 2006, the year Armstrong was cleared of allegations stemming from a 1999 drug test.
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The data collected will then be used to develop action plans for the sports federations and ultimately to increase compliance with the International Convention against Doping in Sport.
The World Anti-Doping Agency also agreed with the sanctions, which means Armstrong may not compete in sports governed by WADA code.
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