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Cycling New Zealand together with High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) will commission an independent inquiry in the wake of Olivia Podmore’s death. The scope of the inquiry will include the adequacy of the changes made in the wake of the 2018 Heron Review into the High Performance programme of...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that a sample collected from El Hassan El Abbassi, runner from Bahrain, has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for homologous blood transfusion (M.1 Prohibited Method – manipulation of blood). The sample was collected by the ITA under the Testing Authority of...
• Claims of Mr Al-Mohannadi in breach of several items related to the ITTF constitution were false. No basis for further action to be taken against Mr Al-Mohannadi for any breach of the ITTF constitution. In February, numerous letters, both anonymous and those sent by Swiss Table Tennis, were...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that a sample collected from Bulgarian weightlifter Yunder Beytula has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for human growth hormones (HGH) (S2. Peptide Hormones, Growth Factors). The ITA reports that a sample collected from Mr. Beytula during an out-of-competition testing mission on...
In accordance with the IOC Anti-Doping Rules and the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has commenced disciplinary proceedings to determine any consequences beyond the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to be imposed upon four (4) track and field athletes who are asserted to have committed anti-...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that a sample collected from Ujah Chijindu, sprinter from Great Britain, has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for SARMs Enobosarm (ostarine) and SARMs S-23 (S1.2 ‘Other Anabolic Agencts’ – ‘Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators’). The sample was collected by the ITA under...
USADA announced today that Katherine Compton, of Colorado Springs, Colo., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Compton, 42, tested positive for an anabolic agent as the result of an out-of-competition drug test on September 16, 2020. Her urine sample...
USADA announced today that Regina Hancock, of Omaha, Neb., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Hancock, 41, tested positive for 3′-hydroxy-stanozolol, a metabolite of stanozolol, as the result of an in-competition drug test on March 20, 2021 at the...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that a sample collected from Alsadik Mikhou, runner from Bahrain, has retuned an adverse analytical finding for homologous blood transfusion (M.1 Prohibited Method – manipulation of blood). The sample was collected by the ITA under the Testing Authority of the International Olympic...
USADA announced today that Logan Storie, of Fayetteville, N.C., an athlete in the sport of pentathlon, has accepted a six-year suspension for his second anti-doping rule violation. Storie’s first violation was announced on February 24, 2017, when he received a 15-month suspension from Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM)...
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) received this morning in Japan, through the Brazilian Doping Control Authority (ABCD), notification of the provisional suspension for a potential anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) by athlete Tandara Caixeta, from the women’s volleyball team. The test was carried out during the out-of-competition period at the...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) acknowledges the decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division to reject the application filed by Ukrainian race walker Nazar Kovalenko for eligibility to compete in the 20km Race Walking event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, despite not...
A UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) spokesperson said today: “We note the decision following Mark Dry’s appeal. We are pleased that the independent appeal tribunal unanimously endorsed UKAD’s Issued Decision dated 7 May 2021, which reduces Mr Dry’s ban from four years to 28 months. “UKAD was able to reduce Mr...
Five years of incredible effort, tremendous work, morning rises at 4.30, training for survival, everything was done for the purpose of fighting for the highest prize! Family and a large team of friends, coaches, patrons worked to make me realise my goal, my brainchild, which I worked on 24/7...
In March this year, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) completed a regular virtual audit of UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD) practices and procedures. The introduction from the report can be accessed in the document below, we have also included more information on what a WADA audit entails below. The introduction included the...
