31 July 2017

Sports Integrity Briefs – 31 July 2017

Pavel Batushev has been sanctioned with a four year ban by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), after the Russian returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for meldonium at the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup event in Rabenstein, Italy, on 28 January. Batushev’s ban will expire on 28 March 2021.

• Sport Ireland has informed the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) that an investigation will be launched into the loss of urine samples taken from GAA players on two separate occasions, reports the Irish Independent. The newspaper reports that samples taken from three players on both 11 July last year and 7 May this year were lost en route to the Cologne laboratory. Neither Sport Ireland nor the GAA have released a statement on the issue.

• The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has announced that 19 Russians will be competing in London as ‘neutral’ athletes. Under Guidelines updated by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on 22 June last year, athletes are able to apply to compete as neutral athletes if they can show that ‘they are not directly implicated in any way (knowingly or unknowingly) by RusAF’s failure to put in place adequate systems to protect and promote clean athletes’. The full list of neutral athletes is available from the IAAF’s list of competing athletes, by selecting the Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) drop-down menu.

• It is reported that the Bolivian national volleyball team will not compete in the senior Latin American Championships in Santiago, Chile, 5-12 August, after a number of corruption allegations were levelled at the Bolivian volleyball confederation (CBV). It is alleged that CBV officials were involved in financial irregularities involving the sale of a synthetic floor donated to the CBV, reports Los Tiempos. The newspaper also reports that a company appointed to run a male volleyball competition allowed an athlete banned for doping to compete. It is understood that Brazilian Rafael de Souza was signed to play for national champion San Martín, despite being listed as banned for doping until 2020 by the international volleyball federation (FIVB).

• Argentinean swimmer Martin Naidich has denied doping after an adverse analytical finding (AAF) forced him into early withdrawal from the international swimming federation (FINA) World Championships in Budapest. ‘As is public knowledge, I will not be participating in the rest of the championship’, read a statement from the freestyle swimmer. ‘I am waiting for the official communication from the competent body to be able to get more details on the situation […] I am distressed by all this, but it reassures me to know that I never consciously consumed a prohibited substance.’

• International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson has said that the UCI will help the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to set up an Independent Testing Authority (ITA), reports Inside The Games. In June, the IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed that the ITA would feature a representative from an international federation.

• A pharmacy owner in Paphos has been charged after police found steroids and testosterone following a raid on his premises, reports the Cyprus Mail.

• A Bill designed to tackle corruption in sport is being revised and will be resubmitted to the Maltese parliament after the summer recess, reports the Times of Malta.

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