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Pope Benedict XVI (L) shakes hands with Swiss Massimo Busacca, ...

(AFP/Osservatore Romano/File) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:36:59 GMT

(AFP/Osservatore Romano/File) - Pope Benedict XVI (L) shakes hands with Swiss Massimo Busacca, the referee of the Champions League final match, at the end of his general audience at the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square in May 2009. The pope said the Catholic Church believed sport could be a force for good, particularly among young people, but warned against harmful aspects such as doping.(AFP/Osservatore Romano/File/Francesco Sforza)

David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:53 GMT

(Reuters) - David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) poses at their head offices in Montreal, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

Victor Conte, owner of the now-defunct BALCO lab, talks next ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:41:41 GMT

(Reuters) - Victor Conte, owner of the now-defunct BALCO lab, talks next to bottles of his nutritional supplements in his office in Burlingame, California, in this March 20, 2007 file photo. Photo taken March 20, 2007. REUTERS/Kimberly White/Files

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse looks on during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:09:18 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse looks on during a news conference in Antwerp November 6, 2009. Belgium's tennis players Yanina Wickmayer, Xavier Malisse and boxing champion Sugar Jackson were handed a one-year ban on Thursday for failing to comply with doping regulations. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM SPORT TENNIS)

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse looks on during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:08:11 GMT

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse looks on during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:06:59 GMT

Belgium's boxing champion Sugar Jackson (L), doctor Kris ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:05:53 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's boxing champion Sugar Jackson (L), doctor Kris Goossens (C) and tennis player Xavier Malisse address a news conference in Antwerp November 6, 2009. Belgium's tennis players Yanina Wickmayer, Xavier Malisse and boxing champion Sugar Jackson were handed a one-year ban on Thursday for failing to comply with doping regulations. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM SPORT BOXING TENNIS)

Belgium's boxing champion Sugar Jackson reacts during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:02:38 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's boxing champion Sugar Jackson reacts during a news conference in Antwerp November 6, 2009. Belgium's tennis players Yanina Wickmayer, Xavier Malisse and boxing champion Sugar Jackson were handed a one-year ban on Thursday for failing to comply with doping regulations. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM SPORT BOXING)

Belgium's boxe champion Sugar Jackson looks on during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:58:11 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's boxe champion Sugar Jackson looks on during a news conference in Antwerp November 6, 2009. Belgium's tennis players Yanina Wickmayer, Xavier Malisse and boxing champion Sugar Jackson were handed a one-year ban on Thursday for failing to comply with doping regulations. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM SPORT BOXING HEADSHOT)

Belgium's boxing champion Sugar Jackson reacts during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:55:56 GMT

Belgium's boxing champion Sugar Jackson reacts during a ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:53:46 GMT

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse wipes his eyes during ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:27 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse wipes his eyes during a news conference in Antwerp November 6, 2009. Belgium's tennis players Yanina Wickmayer, Xavier Malisse and boxing champion Sugar Jackson were handed a one-year ban on Thursday for failing to comply with doping regulations. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM SPORT)

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse wipes his eyes during ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:30:21 GMT

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse reacts during a news ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:10 GMT

(Reuters) - Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse reacts during a news conference in Antwerp November 6, 2009. Belgium's tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse and boxing champion Sugar Jackson were handed a one-year ban on Thursday for failing to comply with doping regulations. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM SPORT)

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse wipes his eyes during ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:41 GMT

Belgium's tennis player Xavier Malisse wipes his eyes during ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:23:35 GMT

Yanina Wickmayer, right, of Belgium, along with her father Marc, ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:51:29 GMT

(AP) - Yanina Wickmayer, right, of Belgium, along with her father Marc, stands in front of a restaurant at Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Yanina Wickmayer has voluntarily withdrawn from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, left, walks away from an Indonesian ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:43:53 GMT

(AP) - Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, left, walks away from an Indonesian journalist at Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Yanina Wickmayer has voluntarily withdrawn from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal. Her father Marc Wickmayer is partially seen behind the daughter. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, left, walks with her father Marc ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:42:43 GMT

(AP) - Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, left, walks with her father Marc Wickmayer at Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Yanina Wickmayer has voluntarily withdrawn from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, left, walks with her father Marc ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:35:53 GMT

Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, right, and his father Marc Wickmayer, ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:35:13 GMT

(AP) - Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, right, and his father Marc Wickmayer, center, talk to an Indonesian reporter at Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Yanina Wickmayer has voluntarily withdrawn from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, Yanina Wickmayer ...

(AP) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:59:28 GMT

(AP) - In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium serves to Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan at the WTA Bali Open tennis tournament in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Wickmayer voluntarily withdrew from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 after receiving a one-year suspension by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:16:33 GMT

(Reuters) - David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) poses at their head offices in Montreal, November 5, 2009. To match feature DOPING/WADA. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi (CANADA SPORT SOCIETY)

David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:15:26 GMT

David Howman, director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:15:23 GMT

International sport's top court on Wednesday delayed by ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:49:04 GMT

(AFP/File) - International sport's top court on Wednesday delayed by two weeks a ruling on the appeal by German Olympic speedskater Claudia Pechstein, seen here in 2008, against a two-year doping ban.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)

Michael Weiner, general counsel for the Major League Baseball ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:42:47 GMT

(Reuters) - Michael Weiner, general counsel for the Major League Baseball Players Association, testifies before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

Rob Manfred, executive vice president of labor and human resources ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:41:40 GMT

(Reuters) - Rob Manfred, executive vice president of labor and human resources in the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, testifies before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association Executive Director, ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:36:59 GMT

(Reuters) - DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association Executive Director, testifies before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

Roger Goodell, National Football League Commissioner, testifies ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:35:27 GMT

(Reuters) - Roger Goodell, National Football League Commissioner, testifies before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

Roger Goodell (L), National Football League Commissioner, testifies ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:31:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Roger Goodell (L), National Football League Commissioner, testifies before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

Roger Goodell, National Football League Commissioner, testifies ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:29:45 GMT

DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association Executive Director, ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:03:03 GMT

(Reuters) - DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association Executive Director, listens to testimony before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

Roger Goodell (L), National Football League Commissioner, and ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:45 GMT

(Reuters) - Roger Goodell (L), National Football League Commissioner, and Rob Manfred, executive vice president of labor and human resources in the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, prepare to testify to the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

Rob Manfred, executive vice president of the Labor and Human ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:59:08 GMT

(AP) - Rob Manfred, executive vice president of the Labor and Human Resources Office of the Commissioner of Baseball Major League Baseball, listens to an opening statements on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, prior to testifying before a House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee hearing on 'The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?'. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, listens to an opening ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:48 GMT

(AP) - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, listens to an opening statements on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, prior to testifying before a House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee hearing on 'The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?'. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

National Football League Players Association Executive Director ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:44 GMT

(AP) - National Football League Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith listens to an opening statements on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, prior to testifying before a House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee hearing on 'The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?'. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

National Football League Players Association Executive Director ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:42 GMT

Roger Goodell (L), National Football League Commissioner, Rob ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:55:19 GMT

(Reuters) - Roger Goodell (L), National Football League Commissioner, Rob Manfred (2nd L), executive vice president of labor and human resources in the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, DeMaurice Smith (2nd R), NFL Players Association Executive Director, and Michael Weiner, general counsel for the Major League Baseball Players Association, are sworn in before testifying to the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell listens to an opening statements ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:54:32 GMT

(AP) - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell listens to an opening statements on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, prior to testifying before a House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee hearing on 'The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?'. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is greeted ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:53:07 GMT

(Reuters) - National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is greeted during a break in testimony before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES)

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell listens ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:00 GMT

(Reuters) - National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell listens to an aide during testimony before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

From left, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred, Executive ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:50:47 GMT

(AP) - From left, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred, Executive Vice President of the Labor and Human Resources Office of the Commissioner of Baseball Major League Baseball, National Football League Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, Michael S. Weiner, general counsel for the Major League Baseball Players Association, and Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the United States Anti-Doping Agency are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, prior testifying before a House Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee hearing on 'The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?'. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell listens ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:49:40 GMT

(Reuters) - National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell listens to testimony before the Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee on "The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads" on Capitol Hill in Washington November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT FOOTBALL)

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, shakes hands with National ...

(AP) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:42:42 GMT

(AP) - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, shakes hands with National Football League Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, prior to testifying before the Senate Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection subcommittee hearing on 'The NFL StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs at a Legal Crossroads?'. Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of labor relations is at center. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

In this Sept. 2, 1997 file picture Andre Agassi, seen, during ...

(Canadian Press) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:36:47 GMT

(Canadian Press) - In this Sept. 2, 1997 file picture Andre Agassi, seen, during a news conference following his lost match against Australia's Patrick Rafter at the U.S. Open in New York. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ron Frehm, File

Athens 2004 Olympic gold medalist, Greek hurdler Fani Halkia, ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:24:40 GMT

(AFP/File) - Athens 2004 Olympic gold medalist, Greek hurdler Fani Halkia, talks to the media after appearing before the prosecutor in Athens investigating her doping case in 2008. The Greek Olympic Committee has admitted an error in selecting Fani Halkia -- who is serving a doping suspension -- to run in the torch relay for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.(AFP/File/Str)

Andre Agassi's admission he used a banned drug in 1997 should ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:23:59 GMT

(AFP/File) - Andre Agassi's admission he used a banned drug in 1997 should serve as a wake-up call to the ATP that they need to act now before they are shamed into it as a result of a scandal, says Dick Pound (pictured in 2007), the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)

Andre Agassi's admission he used a banned drug in 1997 should ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:23:59 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Andre Agassi's admission he used a banned drug in 1997 should serve as a wake-up call to the ATP that they need to act now before they are shamed into it as a result of a scandal, says Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)

Jamaica's Usain Bolt holds his shoes in his hands as he celebrates ...

(Canadian Press) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:29:45 GMT

(Canadian Press) - Jamaica's Usain Bolt holds his shoes in his hands as he celebrates his win in the 200 meters race during an IAAF World Athletics Final at Thessaloniki's Kaftanzoglio stadium, Greece, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Nikolas Giakoumidis)