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Sports Integrity Briefs – 15 April 2016
• During the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron responded to questions on whether the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) needed further support to tackle doping in an Olympic year, and what further action could be taken in the light of recent international doping scandals. Cameron said that more would be announced at the Anti-Corruption Summit in London on 12 May 2016, as well as suggesting that doping could be made a ‘specific criminal offence’.
• The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball has announced that Daniel Stumpf, who plays for the Major League Baseball (MLB) side the Philadelphia Phillies, has received an 80-game suspension. In a statement, MLB said that Stumpf had tested positive for fordehydrochlormethyltestosterone, a performance-enhancing substance, ‘in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program’.
• The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), has announced that the 40th Ordinary UEFA Congress will take place on Tuesday 3 May in Budapest, Hungary. One of the key items on the agenda is the appointment of a woman to the UEFA Executive Committee, following a proposal made by the Women’s Football Committee earlier this year.
• Newcastle United has issued a statement following the judgment by an employment tribunal that former Newcastle midfielder Jonas Gutierrez was dropped by the club because of his cancer diagnosis. According to the BBC, the tribunal found for Gutierrez on two of the four heads of claim, also ruling that Newcastle United ‘made it impossible for Gutierrez to trigger an appearance-based contract extension’. The Premier League football club said that it was ‘dismayed’ by the decision and would now consider its further options.
• The Football Association of Wales (FAW) has announced that it is ‘currently investigating allegations in relation to an alleged breach of its Betting and Integrity Rules concerning Port Talbot Town Football Club’. Port Talbot play in the top tier of Welsh football, the Welsh Premier League, but the FAW emphasised that it was ‘not investigating suspicious betting patterns concerning a Welsh Premier League match’ itself.
