Andy has been writing about the governance of sport for over 15 years. Prior to working on the Sports Integrity Initiative, he was the editor of World Sports Law Report for eight years. He has also worked for the Press Association and has written for numerous trade magazines. He has also created, chaired and spoken at numerous conferences on the business of sport, and produced the Sports Law Show for iSportConnect TV.
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An Italian weightlifter and a track and field athlete have been sanctioned for anti-doping rule violations, while a cyclist has been provisionally suspended for an adverse analytical finding (AAF – or ‘positive test’) involving three substances, Italy’s anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) announced. Pier Luigi Pasini, who also competes in...
This week’s Anti-Doping Monitor recorded 18 doping cases involving 17 athletes from six countries competing in eleven sports. The main story is perhaps that of Diana Magomedova (Диан Магомедову), who helped Russia to victory in the 2021 Rugby Europe Beach Tour on 12 September. On 23 September, the Russian...
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has announced eight sanctions for anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) on the day that a Council of Europe Monitoring Group assessing Russia’s compliance with the Council of Europe’s Convention against Doping in Sport left the country. Michael Petrou, the Head of the Cyprus national anti-doping...
• Garry Peters has been suspended for one game due to ‘verbal abuse and unacceptable behaviour towards doping control officers’, the Canadian Football League (CFL) announced yesterday. The sanction issued to the BC Lions player follows a one game suspension issued to A.C. Leonard on 16 September for the...
• The President and Chief Executive of Ashanti Gold SC, father and son Kwaku and Emmanuel Frimpong, have been issued with three charges relating to match-fixing, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced. The duo have both been charged with breaches of the GFA Code of Ethics; its Disciplinary Code;...
The Russian handball federation (ФГР) has provisionally suspended eight team players it suspects of deliberately underperforming at the U19 European Championships in Croatia in order to profit from betting. Russia unexpectedly finished 15th out of 16 teams at the tournament, which took place from 12-22 August. ‘According to the...
• A Spanish Magistrate has given UEFA five days in which to annul disciplinary proceedings against Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Juventus, reports AS. UEFA sanctioned nine of the 12 clubs involved in the European Super League (ESL) at the start of May, and opened disciplinary proceedings against the...
A cyclist and an amateur athlete have been sanctioned for anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), whilst another cyclist has been provisionally suspended following an adverse analytical finding (AAF – or ‘positive test’), Italy’s anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) announced. Masters cyclist Stefano Colagè, who has participated in eight Giros d’Italia and...
Andrejs Rastorgujevs has been sanctioned with an 18 month ban for three ‘whereabouts’ Filing Failures in 12 months. The Latvian biathlete’s results after 1 July 2020 have been disqualified, meaning that Rastorgujevs will be stripped of a Gold he won in the 20km Sprint at the International Biathlon Union...
The Sports Integrity Initiative is launching a new feature – The SII Anti-Doping Monitor. Each week, The Sports Integrity Initiative will attempt to track all new developments in anti-doping procedures involving athletes. Below is this week’s effort, which involves 19 people (17 of them athletes) from 12 countries; and...
• The analysis of Blessing Okagbare’s B sample has confirmed an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for human growth hormone (HGH), reports Nigeria’s The Guardian. The sprinter and long jumper was forced to withdraw from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after a 19 July sample taken by the Athletics Integrity Unit...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) have lost appeals that sought to double a two year ban issued to Shayna Jack, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced yesterday. WADA and SIA both appealed on the basis that the Australian swimmer had not shown...
When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped its case against Brenton Rickard last month, the swimmer warned that testing mechanisms have surpassed contamination protocols in pharmaceutical manufacturing. This should serve as a huge red flag for athletes. Two recent cases involving prohibited supplements that were not listed on a...
The International Testing Agency (ITA) has announced that Chijindu (CJ) Ujah’s B sample has confirmed the A sample result – an adverse analytical finding (AAF – or ‘positive test’) for Enobosarm (ostarine) and S-23. The ITA said (see below) that it has referred the case to the Court of...
• Anti-Doping Switzerland has sanctioned an athlete from the traditional sport of Hornussen (click here for a YouTube video of the sport) with a six year ban for attempted use of testosterone and clomiphene, as well as tampering with the doping control process. ‘As part of a postal control,...
