My name is Mark Daly – I’m a keen athlete and currently I’m training hard. But I’m also an investigative journalist and for more than a year I’ve been immersed in a story about drugs and athletics. Panorama: Mark Daly, Catch Me If You Can, BBC 2015
The only way I could truly understand it was to become a doper myself. ibid.
Fresh as a daisy ... I feel as though the drugs have worked. ibid.
7% ... The margins are huge. ibid.
I had received a tip-off about a famous coach with strong links to the UK ... Alberto Salazar. ibid.
How did it go from this [gold medal Olympics] to this: ‘I haven’t done anything, but my name is getting dragged through the mud.’ Tonight: the downfall of Alberto Salazar who coached Sir Mo Farah to glory. A coach that wanted to win at all costs. We reveal new evidence about Salazar, and fresh questions about Salazar’s relationship with Britain’s greatest ever track athlete. Panorama: Mo Farah & the Salazar Scandal, BBC 2020
Alberto Salazar’s fall from grace has been spectacular. His career-long relationship with Nike began as a high profile runner in the ’80s. He was famed for pushing himself harder than any of his rivals. ibid.
Under Salazar he [Farah] was unbeatable: the London 2012 Olympics were Alberto’s Salazar’s crowning moment as his athletes took gold and silver. ibid.
USADA investigator: So you received L-carnitine before the London marathon?
Farah: Yeah. ibid.
In March Kolo Toure tested positive for a banned doping substance: Bendroflumethiazide. Dispatches: The Truth About Drugs in Football, Channel 4 2014
Since 2003 there have been a total of twenty-one positive tests for cocaine. ibid.
Our document also suggests a cover up at the heart of our national game. ibid.
Football has a much larger group of athletes to test than other sports. ibid.
The FA refused to tell us how frequently they test players. ibid.
Klitschko admits steroid abuse: Vitali Klitschko, who defends his World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Britain’s Danny Williams in Las Vegas on December 11 has admitted to having used steroids in his career. Daily Telegraph article Bob Mee 2 November 2004
I acquired my first clients at a bar at The Ritz. Screwball, Tony Bosch, 2018
Special Report: Steroids In Baseball: Confessions of an MVP. ibid. Sports Illustrated front cover
Things came to head in the early 2000s especially after the Balco scandal. ibid. Bosch
For more than a decade there has been widespread illegal use of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances by players in major league baseball. ibid. George Mitchell
I’m only as good as the protocol. I’m only as good as your compliance. ibid. Bosch
It’s the hardest sporting event in the world. 180 riders, 20 stages and only 1 gets to wear the yellow jersey. The Program 2015 starring Ben Foster & Chris O’Dowd & Guillaume Canet & Jesse Plemons & Lee Pace & Denis Menochet & Dustin Hoffman & Edward Hogg & Elaine Cassidy & Laura Donnelly et al, director Stephen Frears
I have my interview with Armstrong today. Interesting guy. ibid. journalist David Walsh
It’s cancer. Testicular cancer. Stage 3. ibid. doctor
Did you ever use any drugs? Any performance enhancing drugs? ibid. cancer doctor
Not confined to Earth, now we have learned to fly. ibid. trainer
He likes to put on a show and that’s what he’s doing today. ibid. Tour de France race commentary
He used to get beaten by climbers easily and today he destroyed them. ibid. David Walsh
The cyclists are too much on the line so none of the riders want to speak. ibid.
He personified how it should look in this floating angelic sense that it was effortless for him … I always felt not worthy to be in his company. Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist, Wiggins, Sky Documentaries 2020
Today, I don’t associate cycling with winning. I associate it with terrible, terrible things. ibid. Pantani
It’s the mountains where the pure, raw talent comes out. ibid. Lomond
Whenever he reached a hill he would drop everyone. ibid. trainer
He was totally massacred, every part of him bruised black. ibid. Giuseppe Roncucci
We don’t want to be treated like animals. ibid. Laurent Jalabert
A confession that doping has been endemic in the Festina team and that the team organised it. ibid. Tour spokesman
In 4k he was able to reclaim 4 minutes off Indurain. It was stunning. ibid. commentator
It wasn’t just a masterclass; it was humiliation of his rivals. All Italy is exalted. ibid.
This morning Marco Pantani gave blood for testing. The Pirate’s red blood cell count was above the permitted 50% threshold. ibid.
Marco was never found positive; it was a test for his health. ibid.
Pantani became obsessed with the idea that a plot had been formulated to entrap him. ibid.
It was scandalous. It wasn’t a doped rider here, a doped rider there, it was culture of doping. ibid. Matt Rendell
At his Centre in Ferrera, Conconi is alleged to have given performance enhancing drugs to 63 athletes. ibid. commentator
Given an entirely clean sport during his era, Pantani would almost certainly still have excelled. ibid.
Aged 34, struggling with depression, he died alone. ibid. TV news
A movement that believes performance enhancing drugs like steroids can turn everyday people into superhumans. But are the authorities closing in? Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s1e5: Steroids
A black market for these kinds of drugs, and demand is high. ibid.