Rugby returned the highest proportion of positive dope tests in France in 2012, a high-ranking French anti-doping agency (AFLD) official has claimed. AFLD director of testing Francoise Lasne told a hearing into the effectiveness of the fight against banned substances in sport that rugby topped the charts ahead of football, athletics, triathlon, basketball, cycling, handball and swimming.

The president of the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) on Thursday criticised leading international federations for not taking the fight against doping seriously enough. Bruno Genevois also expressed his frustration at the time taken to put into place the measures required to carry out the fight against doping. At a hearing at the Senate, the upper house of the French parliament, into the efficency of the anti-doping system, Genevois said the delay in putting plans into action was one of the biggest barriers to fighting doping efficiently at an international level.

Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who is on trial for allegedly masterminding one of sports most notorious doping rings, said Wednesday he would be willing to give the names of his former sports clients to the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency if asked to do so. "If they felt I was useful and they asked me, I would consider it and would be willing. What I don't know is if what I would give them would be worthwhile to them or not," he said at his trial. "If within this co-operation such a list was necessary, they would have it," he added.

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, on trial for allegedly running a doping ring in cycling, said on Wednesday he may be willing to cooperate with anti-doping authorities and name the clients whose blood was found in bags seized by police. "If they (anti-doping authorities) believe that I am useful and they ask me (to cooperate) I would consider it and I would be ready," Fuentes told reporters attending the trial in Madrid.