11.   In an unusually candid assessment, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said Sunday that some international sports federations ignore the doping problem among world-class athletes.

12.   Some officials say sports lack the means to deal with the spreading doping problem and that athletes need to face legal repercussions when they use banned substances.

13.   The almost daily arrests and drug revelations of the past three weeks have exposed the sheer scale of the doping problem in cycling, and sport in general.