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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Anabolic agents were detected in 1,813 adverse analytical findings (AAFs, or positive tests) during 2017, almost half (44.5%) of the 4,076 AAFs entered by laboratories into the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS). As in 2016, the anabolic agent that was most prolific in returning...
Amongst sports where over 1,000 samples were collected during 2017, Bodybuilding records the highest percentage of tests that resulted in an adverse analytical finding (AAF), the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2017 Testing Figures Report (PDF below) reveals. A total of 292 AAFs from 1,301 samples (22.44%) were recorded for...
• Parma Calico 1913 plans to appeal a decision of the Italian football association (FIGC) to sanction its player, Emanuele Calaiò, with a two year ban and deduct five points from the club ahead of the 2018/19 Serie A season. Parma beat Spezia 2-0 on 18 May to secure...
The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has announced that two athletes have been sanctioned with four year bans for anti-doping rule violations, after they tested positive for prohibited substances earlier this year. Decathlete Vladislav Grinchuk, 25, returned an adverse analytical finding for turinabol, the brand name for the chlorodehydromethyltestosterone (CDMT)...
• Three powerlifters and a weightlifter have been sanctioned with bans for doping offences, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has announced. Two powerlifters, Egor Musienko (Егора Мусиенко) and Vasiliy Polenin (Василия Поленина) have been sanctioned with four year bans, whilst Nikolay Busygin (Николая Бусыгина) has been sanctioned with a...
US swimmer Madisyn Cox is considering an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after the international swimming federation (FINA) sanctioned her with a two year ban due to an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for trimetazidine. Cox said that a biochemist had compared the 0.1 ng/mL of...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is seeking to extend a four year sanction issued to Rio 2016 Marathon winner, Jemima Sumgong, for ‘tampering with any part of doping control (Article 2.5)‘. The IAAF’s appeal to extend a four year sanction issued by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya...
• Last month, the Province of Quebec granted decisions taken by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) immunity from civil jurisdiction. In the context of recent issues, including the Chris Froome decision, anti-doping experts raise questions about whether decisions taken under the rules mandated by the World Anti-Doping Code should...
• UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD) Annual Report (click here to download) reveals that it reported 23 anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) from 11,336 tests conducted (0.2%) during the 2017/18 financial year. However, as UKAD said that 10 of the 23 ADRVs were due to intelligence, the true percentage of tests that...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) plans to set minimum anti-corruption standards for Twenty20 (T20) cricket, it revealed in its Annual Report (PDF below). The ICC stressed that the growth of Twenty20 cricket represented a significant challenge. ‘Going forward, it is intended to set minimum standards in anti-corruption to cover...
Associated Newspapers Ltd. has agreed to pay Roberto Carlos (pictured, left) ‘substantial damages and costs’ to settle a libel case, after a Mail on Sunday article alleged that he had used prohibited substances. The article was based on a documentary in which a Brazilian doctor claimed to have treated...
The Bolivian football federation (FBF) said it has been forced to put tomorrow’s start of the 2018 Torneo Clausura on hold, due to an argument over unpaid player wages. The FBF said that while the logistics for the start of the 2018 Torneo Clausura are in place, it does...
A Bolivian silver and bronze medal winner at the 2018 South American Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia, have reportedly returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs) for prohibited substances. Carolina Ocampo, who helped the Bolivian 4x100m team win silver, returned an AAF for acetazolamide, reported Diez.bo. The 19 year old told the...
The Italian football association (FIGC) has been sanctioned with a €3.3 million fine by the country’s anti-trust authority (AGCM) for breaching Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The AGCM found that the FIGC had unjustifiably restricted market access to professional services offered...
Fourteen athletes have been sanctioned for an anti-doping rule violation during the 2018 CrossFit Games season, reports BarbellSpin. The 14 included five athletes that qualified to compete at the 2018 CrossFit Games, all of which were sanctioned with a four year ban expiring in June 2022. They are: Emily...
