• Two players have been ruled out of the 2017 Vodafone Fiji FA Cup tournament after they reported an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a prohibited substance. It is understood that the players tested positive after the 12 May Labasa v. Dreketi match, but will be allowed to take the field unless a retest in six weeks also returns an AAF. “Both players are out of the tournament, but will be retested after six weeks and if they are found positive, they will be dealt with by the Fiji FA disciplinary committee”, said Fiji Football Association CEO Mohammed Yusuf in a statement.

• The Bardiani-CSF Pro Cycling team has started legal proceedings against Stefano Pirazzi and Nicola Ruffoni, after it received a communication from the International Cycling Union (UCI) that analysis of both riders’ B samples had also returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF). ‘Bardiani-CSF reserves the right to proceed with a legal action against Pirazzi and Ruffoni to protect the image of the team and its sponsor’, read the statement. The UCI’s list of provisional suspensions reveals that both cyclists returned a positive test for GHRPs (growth hormone releasing peptides) on 25 and 26 April.

• The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has launched a new ‘report doping’ page on its internet site. ‘The IWF assures that the information provided will be treated in accordance with the applicable privacy regulations and can be accessed only by authorised members of the IWF Anti-Doping Team’, reads the page, which is designed to encourage whistleblowers to report doping. ‘The IWF shall not share any information provided through this page and shall not identify the Sender to Third Parties without prior consent’.

• Amnesty International has said that Qatar 2022 migrant workers continue to suffer abuse and exploitation, despite recent moves by the international federation of football associations (FIFA) and Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy designed to show that they are addressing concerns. An Amnesty statement referred to findings published by Impactt Ltd. last month, which found that 79% of workers reported paying recruitment fees and four out of ten surveyed contractors were withholding worker passports.

• A 91-page lawsuit filed in a Pennsylvania court has alleged that the US National Football League (NFL) and helmet manufacturer Riddell conspired to withhold information about the potential head trauma risk to American football players. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of the estate of Adrian Robinson Jr., a former NFL player who committed suicide in 2015 and was later found to have the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

• A horse trainer has offered a £10,000 reward to anyone that can offer information that would clear him, after he was charged by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) due to a positive nandrolone test from his horse, Our Little Sister. “What on earth could I have to gain from this?” he told Newbury Today. “Our Little Sister was a horse of limited ability, in a race with hardly any prize-money, and there was no unusual betting on it”.