An online hack has identified the names of top athletes who have been given permission to use banned substances.
Olympic champions Mo Farah, Rafael Nadal and Justin Rose are among the growing list of sports stars to have their medical records released by the hacker group Fancy Bears.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says the hackers, who it suspects are based in Russia, broke into its servers on September 12.
The files reveal which athletes have been granted so-called Therapeutic Use Exemptions or TUEs, which allow the limited use of banned substances on medical grounds.
WADA insists the sporting figures have done nothing wrong, but the hackers say the exemptions are a "doping licence".
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