1.   Now, citing not only doping issues but financial questions, the USOC is on the verge of taking the franchise away from its most prominent and powerful federation.

2.   Reverberations from the doping issue have reached the upper levels of the German government.

3.   Sports authorities should handle doping issues, Pound said.

4.   Still, a global Olympic summit has been called for Switzerland in January to discuss, among other doping issues, what to do about supplements like androstenedione.

5.   The Australians and Americans have been their most severe critics on the doping issue.

6.   The Olympic Games have always been a flash point for the doping issue.

7.   -- The Japanese Olympic Committee will set up a committee to deal with various doping issues, a top JOC official said.

8.   Apart from the doping issue, the IOC leadership also has to deal with a revolt of rank-and-file members who object to proposed reforms to approve Olympic host cities.

9.   Both have convened meetings this month to discuss the doping issue.

10.   It also set up a new Doping Control Review Board, to be staffed primarily by medical or chemical experts, to give FINA better advice on doping issues.