Graeme Steel has been the face of New Zealand sport's anti-doping crusade. Dylan Cleaver speaks to him in this exclusive interview.

Scientists have called for a crackdown on doping in chess after it emerged players may be taking performance-enhancing substances.

'It was an institutional conspiracy,' officials said of the World Anti-Doping Agency's report that over 1000 Russian athletes were involved in a plot that ran until last year.

At the start of last month, the tarnished Lance Armstrong was the defendant in a federal courtroom in Washington as lawyers ripped apart his life.

Still reeling from doping revelations, Russia will lose hosting rights for more international sporting events.

Lance Armstrong has replied to a Kiwi anti-doping expert who criticised the disgraced cyclist's visit to New Zealand.

It was a rotten era and rotten system and Lance Armstrong should not be the scapegoat, says Bruce Biddle.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is hitting the streets of Auckland again this morning and has invited Kiwi enthusiasts to join him.

Lance Armstrong has arrived in New Zealand, touching down in Auckland early this morning.

Former women’s tennis number one Maria Sharapova’s ban has been cut to 15 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.   Johnathan Thurston will play in the NRL Nines for the first time after being cleared by the Cowboys.   “The King” Arnold Palmer was farewelled at a service in Pennsylvania today.

UK proposes closing its doors to kiwi migrants, Hurricane Matthew destroys homes in Haiti and Sharapova has her doping ban reduced.

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Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome are among a new wave of athletes to have details of substan­ces they had taken leaked by Russian

The IOC will not ban the entire Russian Olympic team from the Rio games. The Australian team are not moving into the Olympic Village because of "blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring”. And shocking footage is released of the moment a woman was mauled to death by a tiger at a safari park in Beijing.

Russia's doping programme saw drug dissolved in Chivas whisky for men and vermouth for women, to give them an undetected edge over other athletes.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Russia's participation in the Rio Olympics is still uncertain as the IOC explores legal options for banning the country from the Games. Also Lady Gaga and her fiancé, Taylor Kinney, are ending their 5 year relationship

Russia run a state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, that’s according to a report out today. Prime Minister John Key says he can't say if he brought up the case of a New Zealander convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia with its president.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee says it has not been told of any plan to ban Russian athletes from Rio for doping.

The head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory resigned hours after his lab was suspended over accusations it was part of a state-sponsored doping program

The World Anti-Doping Agency are stepping up efforts to get Kenya banned from international competition for 4 years, including next year's Rio Olympics.

Tyler Hamilton rode for Lance Armstrong during three of the seven Tour de France victories the Texan won while doping.

The NRL has issued Sydney Roosters prop Martin Kennedy with an infraction notice as part of Asada's probe into league.

There are growing concerns schoolboy rugby is a fertile environment for drug taking to become rife.

Elton John once spent $73 million in 20 months. "I'm not a nest egg kind of guy", was his explanation at the time.

As presidential bids go, it was hardly brilliantly timed. Sebastian Coe, laying out his manifesto for election as the most powerful man in athletics, calmly assured that his sport was not in crisis.

Banned triathlete Kris Gemmell believes he never should have faced anti-doping proceedings and expects his punishment will be overturned within weeks.

New Zealand won't be able to claim unfamiliarity with their opponents when they play Australia tomorrow morning for a spot in the Champions Trophy final.

The young weightlifter who alerted authorities to his coach’s attempts to supply him with steroids and performance-enhancing substances has been praised for his courage.

Weightlifting coach Daniel Milne has been suspended for six years by the Sports Tribunal for attempted trafficking in, and possession of, prohibited substances.