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olympics

Russia engaged in 'state-directed' Olympic doping, finds probe

The results of a two-month investigation into Russia's tampering with samples will lead to further calls for the nation to be banned from the Rio Olympics

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Football going into the back of the net

Humans

Football on the brain

Features

horse race

Technology

Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries

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Women leave the Russian Olympic Committee building which houses the headquarters of the All-Russian Athletics Federation in Moscow

Health

WADA report shows tricks Russian athletes use to skip drug tests

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Two horses in the middle of a race galloping past the camera

Technology

Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries

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Face it, the Olympics won't be axed. We need to Zika-proof them

Health

Face it, the Olympics won't be axed. We need to Zika-proof them

Analysis

Olympics

Health

WHO warned there will be more Zika cases if Olympics go ahead

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Belgian cyclo-cross rider Femke Van Den Driessche

Technology

Hidden motors: cycling's mechanical doping problem hits new low

Comment

Brains of elderly people who exercise look 10 years younger

Life

Brains of elderly people who exercise look 10 years younger

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Maria Sharapova

Health

Banned drug used by Sharapova staved off fatigue in animal tests

Meldonium is designed to treat ischaemia, in which tissues lack oxygen. In animal tests it upped the time it was possible to exercise before fatigue set in

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Life

Exercise slows growth of cancer in marathon mice

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Health

Our body adapts to intense exercise to burn fewer calories

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Life

Marathon mind: How brain training could smash world records

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