Dancing is not a sport is it? Okay I do not want to start that argument. In fact many of the athletes that appeared on ABC's hit show Dancing With The Stars will quickly agree that is and that it is one of the toughest things they have ever done.

Sports drinks containing protein are better at improving athletes' performance. Research published in BioMed Central's open access Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition has shown that drinks containing a mix of carbohydrate and protein are superior to carbohydrate-only drinks in improving cyclists' recovery from exercise.

China will ensure a completely "clean" competition from its athletes in the coming Olympic Games, said Cui Dalin, deputy director of the State General Administration of Sport, in Beijing Wednesday.

The British government may be considering barring Zimbabwean athletes from competing in the United Kingdom. As Tendai Maphosa reports from London, the government may be looking at this as a step to prevent Zimbabwe's cricket team from touring England next year.

Olympic gold medalist Joanna Hayes and World Championship bronze medalist Kara Goucher have been added to the lineup for Friday’s 101st Millrose Games, organizers announced on January 28.

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” – former UCLA and Vanderbilt football coach Red Sanders

Random drug and alcohol testing does not reliably keep student-athletes from using. In fact, the mere presence of drug testing increases some risk factors for future substance use, Oregon Health & Science University researchers report. Their findings are published in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, the journal of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.

U.S. Olympic Team sponsor AT&T Inc. and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have announced the completion of a major technology upgrade to USOC headquarters in Colorado Springs, giving athletes, coaches and staff access to world-class communications technology.

Gene doping has the potential to spawn athletes capable of out-running, out-jumping and out-cycling the strongest of champions. But research under way at the University of Florida could help level the playing field by detecting the first cases of gene doping in professional athletes before the practice enters the mainstream.

Concussions are common in young athletes but the underlying changes in brain function that occur have been poorly understood. Now, a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study is the first to link changes in brain function directly to the recovery of the athlete.