• Two wrestlers have returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs) at Mongolia’s traditional Naadam festival, including the national champion. ‘After the wrestling tournament at the Naadam festival in July, the National Anti-Doping Organisation of Mongolia carried out doping tests on the top 16 wrestlers at the tournament, two of which were found to have violated Mongolia’s anti-doping regulations’, read a government statement. One of these was named as Enkhtugs Oyunbold (Энхтөгсийн Оюунболд), who won the title of State Champion at the tournament. He returned an AAF for meldonium, stanozolol, chlorothiazide and hydrochlorothiazide, added the statement. The other athlete was not named.

• A Jamaican athlete has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a prohibited substance at the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Championships, 20-23 June, reports the Jamaica Observer. It is understood that the athlete declared use of an over the counter cold medication at the trials, however it is not known if that is the source of the AAF. The Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) and the JAAA have yet to comment.

• Mohammad Hosseini has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding for metabolites of oxymetholone, an anabolic steroid, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced. The Iranian weightlifter won Silver in the -89kg category at the 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in July.

• Former Welsh national athletics coach, Phil Banning, has been jailed for seven and a half years after pleading guilty to 18 counts of indecent assault involving four girls, reports the BBC. It is understood that the indecent assaults took place whilst Banning was working for Andover Athletics Club between 1976 and 1982.