Is there any secret to playing drunk or doped up?
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Retested 2012 doping samples have turned up 11 doped weightlifters.
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Hoult plays Silas, a regular citizen of this doped-up society.
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Seven steroids differed significantly in concentration between doped and control animals.
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The anonymous professional cyclist was part of a team that doped.
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I'm 8: My mother locks my screaming, doped-up father out.
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Eastern bloc nations have systematically doped their athletes for many decades.
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It said there was not enough evidence that the athletes had doped.
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But many of your doped-up stars will slip through the net.
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But human beings are not the only animals doped to enhance their performance.
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A phantom lab created to process the urine of athletes who had doped.
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He doped and led by example, but that didn't mean they had to.
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He just rope-a-doped us all the way to the White House.
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For me, being doped up cuts the rapid patter malarkey off at the knees.
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And so we didn't know if he didn't speak because he had been doped up.
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Sun said he was taking medication for a heart condition and had not deliberately doped.
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In the interviews, Dr. Rodchenkov boasted about his ability to shield doped athletes from detection.
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Let's also be clear that doped athletes in Russia are, in many ways, victims, too.
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Armstrong confessed in 2013 to having doped to win the Tour de France seven times.
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In time, he moved up to second when the Russian was caught for having doped.
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The sport is the third-most doped Olympic event, with 12 cases between 1968 and 2010.
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"No, I never in my life," she told reporters when asked if she had ever doped.
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Before the study started, four of the animals were deliberately doped with the two aromatise inhibitors.
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Both of my parents died in hospice care, both doped up on opiates at the end.
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I asked the vet whether Augustus, half doped, would have some idea of my stroking him.
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"Let's also be clear that doped athletes in Russia are, in many ways, victims, too," Rodchenkov wrote.
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"In order to trigger a sanction, you have to have been 99.9 percent likely doped," Tucker said.
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"I have said many times that I have never doped and do not dope now," he told Reuters.
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These are men who have been accused of either helping to hide his doping or doped alongside him.
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And like a doped-up olympian, the game was stripped of its bronze medal on the MIXX awards' website.
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The report identified 15 Russian medal-winners who were found to have doped at the 2012 games in London.
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In a silicon transistor, the channel will be doped with one material and the source and drain with another.
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John Cena and Nikki Bella started down the road to marriage when they were both doped up for surgeries.
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She added that she's convinced Clinton has Parkinson's disease, was doped up for the debates, and is probably incontinent.
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The whistle-blower Yuliya Stepanova, a middle-distance runner, had doped under the Russian system and served a ban.
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She had called him once when he was in the hospital, but he was too doped up to talk.
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That makes proving that athletes doped more complicated than in typical situations in which tampering is not an issue.
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The Iditarod dog sled race has a new controversy to deal with and it's a weird one: doped up dogs.
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The guy was wheeled into the operating room, doped up, and veiled entirely, except for the surgical site: his balls.
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They consist of a gold core with a diameter of 10nm surrounded by a silica shell doped with fluorescent dyes.
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Neither answered directly when asked how many times they had doped or how much they had paid for the transfusions.
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He maintains that though he was one of many cyclists who doped, he has received disproportionately harsh treatment from the sport.
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It's also calling for a system in which clean athletes who lost to athletes found to be doped would be compensated.
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Instead, he and his colleagues propose to build their JNTs, just 3nm across, out of one sort of uniformly doped silicon.
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In the game, the religious character Kate is doped at a club, and filmed kissing strangers while totally out of it.
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That's almost 100 athletes who competed at the Games knowing their samples would be retested in the future and doped anyway.
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Andy Samberg goes for guffaws by spoofing a narcissistic pop star and a doped-up cyclist in an HBO double bill.
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They doped the samples with four different concentrations of holes, spanning from one side of the hypothesized critical point to the other.
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I was just so doped up it took me seventeen years and a few solid ass-rapings to figure that one out.
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"My assessment is that there is no pattern of marijuana being doped with fentanyl, certainly not at the dealer level," Logan said.
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"I have not doped or cheated," Chand said in Hindi, and Mitra, who would become Chand's government-appointed adviser, translated to English.
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Being patted on the back for being a clean rider meant nothing, it felt like nobody cared whether I doped or not.
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He said he had "absolutely not" entered doped athletes into United States competitions nor had he made inappropriate payments to race organizers.
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Fortunately, there appear to be a lot of overlapping elements to the experience of having one's brain doped up on Earth's beauty.
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While doped Russian athletes could compete on home soil without fear of detection, international competitors were left to face WADA testing procedures.
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Top Russian athletes doped during the competition, he said, and had their steroid-tainted urine replaced with clean urine for drug testing.
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A series of smaller lasers activate more titanium-doped sapphire crystals, adding energy to the stretched pulse as it travels through six amplifiers.
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When glucose was the doped sugar molecule, 13C was carried rapidly to the liver from the small intestine through the hepatic portal vein.
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You're doped up on Vicodin and drinking meal replacement shakes because your nose is crammed full of gauze and you can't taste anything.
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Additionally, Kerber pointed out that the silica aerogel is quite brittle, and would need to be doped with another material like a polymer.
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MOSCOW — Russian prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday that they would investigate reports that the country's athletes doped at three recent Olympics.
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Cilic still bristles at the suggestion that he doped and referred to the ban as the toughest of his life as a player.
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In the Bundesliga [Germany's top domestic league] I discovered through my research that around 15 percent of players have doped at least once.
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Athletes equipped with "bladerunner" limbs, or powerful exoskeletons, or doped with hormones or other performance-enhancing drugs, could break every existing Olympic record.
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While western and US athletes also doped, those cases were (and are) matters of individual choice rather than large scale, state sponsored efforts.
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In the spasers Dr Zharov and Dr Stockman are using, the gold acts as the resonator and the doped silica as the gain medium.
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When fructose was doped, though, and administered in small quantities, the isotope gathered in the small intestine instead of being transported to the liver.
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The Olympic body said on Tuesday that the exclusion of certain athletes from the list of eligible Russians did not mean they had doped.
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The team hopes the material could be doped with live cells, to create interesting living structures in the future—and potentially even synthetic organs.
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A hero who, under the cloak of night, switched drug-tainted urine for clean urine so that athletes who had doped wouldn't test positive.
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Armstrong was forced to pay millions in settlements and give up endorsements after he was found to have doped when he was an athlete.
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It invaded Ukraine, doped the Russian Olympic team, meddled in the American elections and apparently released a deadly nerve agent in the English countryside.
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Let me be clear, there is nothing to be either praised or defended in this decision, which pits clean athletes and against doped ones.
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Mary is the distracted, doped-up mother who presides over a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village (convincingly evoked by the designer Derek McLane).
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Speaking of doping, the Independent wrote about all this (doped?) blood taken from a cycling doctor that's been in a Barcelona medical facility for years.
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The roll call of those cheated of their award podium moments because of competitors later found to have doped shows no signs of tailing off.
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Klishina, due to compete on Tuesday in her first Olympics, had expressed frustration at the I.A.A.F. decision on Saturday and insisted she had not doped.
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The clouds of suspicion that linger over doped athletes who return to competition continue to take a toll on the value of the clean athlete.
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While there is no question that Armstrong doped (he admitted it), he was primarily punished for being a bully and a jerk (which he was).
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Weightlifting and track and field, both summer sports, were the top two most-doped Olympic events, with 36 and 28 cases, respectively, between 1968 and 2010.
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The Olympic body earlier this week said that the exclusion of certain athletes from the list of eligible Russians did not necessarily mean they had doped.
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" A month or two later, she was in Atlantic City and says she was given another glass of red wine and felt "completely doped up again.
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As he explains in a paper in Analytical Chemistry, he has developed a technique for spotting doped horses that should make it easier to catch cheats.
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As he and his colleagues had hoped, they were able to pick the doped horses from the others on the basis of the creatures' steroid profiles.
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"They're poorly understood materials," said Efetov, noting that they superconduct only when precisely doped with impurities during their demanding fabrication in order to add free electrons.
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The list of American runners and bikers and skiers who have doped is long and desultory, although there is no evidence that this is state-directed.
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Once the game started there was a sort of reverse WADA official on the field who was charged with making sure everyone's blood was still doped.
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Officials announced that those 23 Olympians, who competed in five sports at the last Summer Games, in 2012 in London, were newly suspected of having doped.
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Nicole and I stayed in and watched Netflix and didn't drink, and she brought me food and more frozen peas, and I was moderately doped up.
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"With most of it, I plan to continue evolving my device, like manufacturing chemically doped carbon nanotubes and again performing more false/positive tests," says Rao.
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A petition signed by many leading athletes is calling for one condition of Russia's reinstatement to be the return of prize money won by doped competitors.
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Cervical rings doped with dapivirine, which early trials suggested may be almost as effective for women as circumcision is for men, have yet to obtain regulatory approval.
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Landis, who also doped during his cycling career and was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title, will receive $1.1 million of the government's $5 million.
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Doping alters the amount of energy required for any charge to flow through a semiconductor, so where two differently doped materials abut each other, current cannot flow.
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When chitin is heated up to 900℃ in the presence of nitrogen, it creates a nitrogen-doped carbon that could function as a battery's electrode, he explained.
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That's why others who doped "just as much" have reentered the pantheon of greats while Armstrong is, to a large extent, still shunned by the cycling world.
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Oliver points to one anonymous survey in which 29% of track-and-field athletes at the 2011 world championships said they had doped within the past year.
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When Ms. Uhlaender asked if Russian Olympians had doped at Sochi, Ms. Nikitina said that she could speak only for skeleton racers, and that the answer was no.
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The report also provided new details about how Russia's top athletes had doped throughout the Sochi Games, and before other Olympic Games and a world championship in Moscow.
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However, Red has spent this season fighting weathered adult men, including a sadistic jail captain (Link Baker), a doped-up boxer (Darcy Hinds), and, now, his ex-girlfriend's dad.
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The 2015 documentary Doped: The Dirty Side of Sports tells the story of Phil DeRosier, an American sprinter who served a six-month suspension for flunking a doping test.
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Micro-dosing and new evasive techniques and strains will continue to allow doped athletes into competition - the big question is how to catch them and how to stop them.
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"We consider it unfair on the vast majority of our athletes who have never doped and have not violated any criteria," Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov told the meeting.
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"The obvious intent by manipulating the data was to ensure doped athletes were able to escape sanction," said Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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An anonymous survey of entrants at the 2011 World Championships in athletics found that at least a third had doped in the previous year, even though barely 1% failed tests.
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I witnessed and distributed the enormous amount of drugs the whales were doped up on: antibiotics to treat chronic infections, medication to treat ulcers and fungal infections, drugs to treat epilepsy.
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The blood is supposed to be destroyed, but a Spanish court will soon rule on whether it will or not, and whether we'll all find out how doped that blood is.
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The heroes in that case were Vitaly Stepanov, who used to work at the Russian antidoping agency, and his wife, Yuliya Stepanova, a runner who had doped under the Russian system.
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You're no longer defined merely by your cheekbones or that inexplicably stupid picture you took with a forcibly doped-up tiger that one time you went to Southeast Asia before college.
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When the Denver Police Department cautioned Colorado parents last month about the possibility of trick-or-treaters getting doped on edibles, similar warnings were echoed in San Diego and New Jersey.
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Before the end of the month, an international sports court is due to hear the appeals of 39 Russian athletes whom the I.O.C. barred for having doped at the 2014 Games.
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Nearly 23 years on, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is investigating the results achieved by Ma's runners following the publication of a letter in February which alleged they were doped.
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Coe also told Reuters that Russia's doped runner-turned-whistleblower Yulia Stepanova could still be allowed to compete at the Rio Games under an IOC flag but that her situation was complex.
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They already measure just nanometers in size, made of ultra-thin layers of silicon that is scattered—the technical term is doped—with other atoms to imbue them with their switching abilities.
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He shared spreadsheets of the athletes who had doped, along with the recipe for a three-drug cocktail of steroids and liquor he devised ahead of the 2012 Summer Games in London.
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"For a competitor like Horton, the notion that he represents all who are clean in sport, while Sun represents all who have doped, is blood in the water," Mr. Le Grand wrote.
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"If the bottle has been frozen, and the cap is one of the rare ones that becomes unsealed, that may have created a technicality for a doped athlete to walk," Tygart said.
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Rusada's suspension was lifted in September 2018, when Russia promised to hand over details of laboratory data that would allow sports organizations to finally determine the identities of athletes who had doped.
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They injected mice that had metastatic breast cancer with their doped liposomes and were able, using a PET scanner, to follow what happened to the drugs therein over the course of a week.
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Doped with an experimental antiretroviral drug, when worn in the vagina by women in sub-Saharan Africa it was shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection by as much as 61 percent.
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She allows her drunk, doped up (she takes a pill from Jackie's stash) brain to imagine the worst possible scenario: Her mother is the woman in white, luring young girls into the woods.
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In a study published in the journal Nanoscale, researchers led by Alexandra Furasova introduced a new type of "nanoparticle ink" made with zirconium dioxide crystals that are "doped" with the phosphorescent element europium.
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This one runs a familiar course: two attractive individuals snogging, groping and dry-humping as if the viewing public, like doped apes, need to be reminded what sexual activity entails in microscopic detail.
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Paul Wall and Baby Bash came face-to-face with a judge for their latest drug charges ... and it looks like excuses are already flying for why their systems might be doped up.
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McLaren described the system as a "failsafe" last line of defense in disposing of a positive test if a doped elite athlete did not achieve protection during the sample collection and transportation process.
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"We have to find those reasons why young sportsmen are taking doping, why they agree to be doped," Mr. Smirnov said, expressing eagerness to move forward rather than assign responsibility for previous violations.
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Her suspension, initially a two-year ban, was reduced on appeal last year by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled that she had not doped intentionally but was not without fault.
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There are two topics you'll likely be hearing about for a while: 25.8 percent of respondents said they have suspected opponents of match-fixing and 22.3 percent said they knew other players who'd doped.
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Without them, Russian athletes who have doped would very likely have won medals in Rio — perhaps only to have those medals snatched back years later, when the drug testers finally caught up with them.
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A Bradley Wiggins-fronted podcast languishes in eighth on the UK list and doesn't even rank in the US. Armstrong doped to win and his results have subsequently been scrubbed from the record books.
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Whatever your feelings on the use of PEDs in sports, it's hard to argue that baseball acted admirably in sussing out whether Alex Rodriguez (specifically) and others had doped using Anthony Bosch's Biogenesis facility.
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In one of the most infamous examples, women who represented East Germany at the Olympic Games in the '70s and '80s achieved astounding success after they were unknowingly doped with anabolic steroids including testosterone.
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The awkwardness of curriculum night is palpable, and the child's birthday party scene is vivid enough to make you feel as though a dozen cake-doped kids have just run through your living room.
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A report released today by the World Anti-Doping Agency says that top world track and field officials may have engaged in criminal behavior, blackmailing athletes who doped and failing to discipline them in a timely fashion.
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The announcement — posted to the Russian Olympic Committee website beneath a banner that read "Stop Doping" — came days after 14 Russian athletes from three sports were accused of having doped at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
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He said the use of performance-enhancing drugs went far beyond Russia's track and field athletes, and that Russian medal contenders had doped leading up to Beijing and London, and throughout the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
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However solid the authorities' grip on doping within the official circuit is, there is little to stop dogs from being doped on the handful of unregulated greyhound courses—known as "flapping tracks"—throughout the UK and Ireland.
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Trainer Jason Servis is among the defendants, and prosecutors say he "doped virtually all horses under his control," including Maximum Security, who crossed the finish line first at last year's Kentucky Derby but was disqualified for interference.
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The seven-track, 58-minute LP, which gathers unreleased material dating back to 2008, is like listening to a techno or house record that's been doped up on tabs of acid and having one revelatory experience after another.
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And over time, the creatives who worked on my team found a huge benefit to my transition: They'd present work to me three or four days after surgery, when they knew I'd be most doped-up on painkillers.
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It's best to dial it down, Sag, as the only people who actually care about these tidbits of knowledge are the degenerates in the club too doped up to even know what you're yapping in their ears about.
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Encouraged by this finding, the two researchers pondered how to arrange for a block of ivermectin-doped PCL to stay in the stomach that long, rather than passing through to the intestine and thence, ultimately, to the outside world.
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Evans's doped mice ran farther, in part because their muscles had been told to burn fat and save carbohydrates, which meant that they took longer to "hit the wall"—the painful sensation encountered when muscles exhaust their glucose store.
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One of the defendants is trainer Jason Servis, who prosecutors say "doped virtually all horses under his control," including Maximum Security, the colt that crossed the finish line first at last year's Kentucky Derby but was disqualified for interference.
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"You can't just say they were in Sochi and they are Russian and they probably were doped," Oswald told The A.P. Several dozen antidoping agencies have called on the I.O.C. to bar Russia's Olympic committee from the 2018 Games.
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Two employees warily eyed a reporter asking about allegations in the Chinese news media that female track athletes who burst onto the global scene in the early 1990s, setting world records, were in fact heavily doped by their trainer, Ma Junren.
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Tim Montgomery, an American sprinter who broke the 100-metre world record in 2002 in a time that was later ruled void because he had doped, described performance-enhancing drugs as necessary "to secure a real contract" and "worth the risk".
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The deterrent effect is that a doped athlete takes the risk that his result will be disqualified long after his performance at the Olympics, or any other tournament he competes in, up to two years after the sample was collected.
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Scientists were able to generate pairs of entangled photons using a titanium-doped sapphire laser and partially silvered mirrors, then transmitted one of the pairs from a location in Tibet to a satellite orbiting over 1,400 kilometers (875 miles) away.
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"Not being included on the invitation list does not necessarily mean that an athlete has been doped – it should not automatically cast doubt on their integrity," Valerie Fourneyron, chair of the panel overseeing the invitation process, said in an IOC statement.
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Dr. Rodchenkov told The New York Times that Russian athletes had doped leading up to the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2012 London Games and throughout the course of the 2014 Sochi Games, when Russia controlled the Olympic testing laboratory.
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The Lance Armstrong team that dominated the Tour de FranceAfter years of denial, Armstrong finally admitted to Oprah Winfrey on live prime-time TV that he doped not only in his first Tour victory but also in the six that followed.
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He ran some of the United States' biggest doping investigations in recent history, including the case that helped bring down Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner who was found to have doped for most of his career.
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Together with her husband, Stepanov, a former employee of Russia's national antidoping agency, Stepanova spoke out about how Russian athletes had systematically doped and evaded drug testing, as she herself did until she was punished for a violation in early 2013.
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Writing today in Science Advances, Huang and his colleagues describe their method for degrading polyethylene at temperatures as low as 150 degrees Celsius, by adding an organometallic catalyst—a small, commercially available organic molecule doped with the metal iridium—to the reaction.
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However, the Russian, who served an 18-month suspension in 2014-15 for testing positive for a banned stimulant, said she had never doped and that the fact she was breastfeeding her youngest child at the time of the test proved it.
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A 2013 WADA study that anonymously surveyed more than 2,000 track and field athletes found that an estimated 20123 percent of participants at the 2011 world championships and 45 percent of participants at the Pan-Arab Games had doped during the previous year.
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For much of the 1980s and 1990s, the United States had a pervasive doping problem in Olympic sports that was enabled by the U.S.O.C. Test results disappeared, doped-up athletes ran and jumped and swam their way to medals, and complicit coaches prospered.
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It's a classic scene picked right out of Law & Order: SVU—thick smoke hangs in the air (punctuated by the smell of burned oregano, I learn later), "doped-out" clients ranging from middle aged to probably a college student, and prescription bottles scattered about.
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Dr. Rodchenkov, who has a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, told The New York Times that Russian athletes had doped leading up to the Games in Beijing and London and throughout the course of the Sochi Games in 2014, when Russia controlled the Olympic testing laboratory.
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The conventional view of those in the Olympic movement is that the only way medals could be revoked, and reawarded, is if a drug-testing specimen provided by the athletes during an Olympic competition turned up positive or if the medal winner acknowledged having doped.
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"The main task is to prove that the guys are right, that they have never doped and that they were unfairly banned from taking part in the Olympic Games," their coach Alexander Kuznetsov told Reuters, saying the lawsuit's objective was to "clear the athletes' names".
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"It acts quickly, so you're not waiting around for six hours to see how high you are," he says, adding that these products are primarily intended for the chronically ill and "little old ladies" who would otherwise get doped up on opioids and sleeping pills.
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In an intercepted phone call in October, a trainer, Thomas Guido III, told Grasso about the death of a horse who Guido had been training who had been doped with a drug used to reduce bleeding in a horse's lungs during periods of exertion.
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PARIS — A long-delayed study financed by the World Anti-Doping Agency said that one-third of the athletes at the 2011 track and field world championships may have knowingly doped shortly before they competed, although few of them were caught at the time.
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The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Sports Medicine, estimated that doping was even more widespread at the Pan-Arab Games in 2011, with at least 103 percent of competitors thought to have doped in the 12 months before that regional multisports event.
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"By stopping so many doped athletes from participating in Rio we are showing once more our determination to protect the integrity of the Olympic competitions, including the Rio anti-doping laboratory, so that the Olympic magic can unfold in Rio de Janeiro," Bach said.
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The change occurred after Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper set up a sting where the publication claimed Mitchell, a former medal-winning sprinter, and sports agent Robert Wagner offered to supply performance-enhancing drugs to undercover reporters claiming to be making a movie featuring a doped athlete.
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Britain's Daily Telegraph set up a sting where they claim Mitchell, the American former medal-winning sprinter who was previously banned for doping, and sports agent Robert Wagner had offered to supply performance-enhancing drugs to undercover reporters claiming to be making a movie featuring a doped athlete.
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There are months of campaigning yet to go, and with all his whirling and counterpunching, dazzling though it may be, Mr. Trump promises to burn himself out, ending up less Ali than a rope-a-doped George Foreman, sagging to the canvas before a sage and experienced opponent.
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The site featured pages of information on everything from the basics of how semiconductors work—for example, how materials like silicon can be "doped" with impurities to carry an electrical current, and are the basis of modern electronics—to entries on the "finite barrier quantum well" and "photolithography".
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We're told cops questioned Jones, who claimed he owned the $1.9 million home because Loretta signed it over to him, and turns out he was right -- but allegedly because he got her to sign the paperwork after she had hip surgery in 2016 while she was doped up on morphine.
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The two extreme ends of the map are well-understood: Pure, unadulterated cuprate crystals—mapped on the left side of the diagram—act as insulators, while cuprates that have been doped with many extra electrons or "holes" (deficits of electrons that behave like positively charged particles), mapped on the right, behave like metals.
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As fallout from the Russian doping scandal continues, medals from the 2014 Sochi Olympics are also likely to be called into question, particularly after the World Anti-Doping Agency publishes the results of an investigation into Russian athletes who doped in Sochi and had their violations concealed by a government-coordinated operation.
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And in the GDR system, where 14.25 mandated compliance, athletes could not have continued their careers without ingesting steroids, both because they could not have competed with their doped colleagues and because coaches and functionaries would have purged them from the system for refusing the orders of their trainers and the trainers' higher-ups at the Ministry of Sports.
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Since his promotion by President Vladimir V. Putin last fall, Mr. Mutko has grown increasingly defiant in responding to the mountain of evidence that Russia has systematically doped with government assistance, most notably at the 2014 Sochi Olympics — where Russia's longtime national antidoping lab chief, Grigory Rodchenkov, said he substituted steroid-tainted urine with clean urine.
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American athletes have doped too, including high-profile track and field stars like Marion Jones, who confessed to steroid use in 2007; Tim Montgomery, who admitted to doping in 2008; and Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, who were both part of the 2016 US track and field team despite testing positive for banned substances in the past.
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In the case of gene-doping through gene therapies, using vectors for delivery, it's relatively easy to look for an extra copy of a gene and confirm that an athlete has been doped when you have access to a biological sample, such as blood, said Olivier Rabin, senior executive director of sciences and international partnerships at the anti-doping agency.
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He told me later of the strangeness of sitting in the back of a helicopter, watching over his enemy lying peacefully unconscious, doped up on painkillers, while he kept checking the sniper's vitals, his blood pressure, his heartbeat, a heartbeat that was steady and strong thanks to the gift of blood from the Americans this insurgent would have liked to kill.
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