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The Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the matter CAS OG 20/12 Nazar Kovalenko v. World Athletics (WA) & Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU): The Panel of arbitrators in charge of the matter has rejected the application filed by Ukrainian racewalker...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that a sample collects from Shot-Putter Benik Abramyan has returned an adverse analytical finding for dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and methandienone (S.1 Anabolic Androgenic Steroids) and Tamoxifen (S.4 Hormone and Metabolic Modulators). The sample was collected by the ITA under the Testing Authority of the...
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), under my leadership, is not responsible for the unfortunate incidents that led to the disqualification of 10 of our very promising athletes, not alternate athletes as the Federal Ministry of Youth & Sports Development labeled them and sought to deceive the world into...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Issa Hayatou, former CAF President, former FIFA President ad interim, FIFA Vice-President and member of the FIFA Council, as well as Honorary FIFA Vice‑President, responsible for having breached article 15 (Duty of Loyalty) of the FIFA Code of...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that a sample collected from Mark Odhiambo, a Sprinter from Kenya, has returned an adverse analytical finding for methasterone and metabolites (S1. Anabolic Androgenic Steroids). The sample was collected by the ITA under the Testing Authority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has provisionally suspended Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria today with immediate effect after a sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for human Growth Hormone. Growth Hormone is a non-specified substance on the 2021 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List and a provisional suspension is mandatory...
• Player found guilty of match fixing offences The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) confirms that Moroccan tennis player Simohamed Hirs has been banned for life from the sport, following investigations into multiple incidents of match fixing. The case was ruled on by Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Amani Khalifa and...
Alex Wilson is unable to participate in the Tokyo Olympics. The ad hoc Division of the International Sports Court of Justice, CAS, overturns the Decision of Swiss Olympic disciplinary body for doping cases and has imposed a provisional ban on the 30-year-old athlete from Basel. This is not related to...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) acknowledges the decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division to uphold its application, together with that lodged by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), to reinstate the provisional suspension of Swiss athlete Alex Wilson with immediate effect. This means...
• The ad hoc Chamber of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) provisionally suspended athlete Alex Wilson (athletics) for a potential anti-doping rule violation. Swiss athlete Alex Wilson was provisionally suspended by Anti-doping Switzerland on 28 April 2021 for the presence of Epitrenbolone, a metabolite of the banned...
The Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the following matters: CAS OG 20/06 World Athletics (WA) v. Alex Wilson, Anti-Doping Switzerland & Swiss Olympic CAS OG 20/08 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) v. Alex Wilson, Anti-Doping Switzerland & Swiss Olympic. The applications...
Despite significant improvements in the domestic testing programmes in countries categorised as being the highest doping risk to the sport under the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules (Anti-Doping Rules), 18 athletes from the final entries for the Tokyo Olympic Games are not eligible to compete because the minimum testing requirements...
Today, the the ‘United For Navid’ campaign, requested Ban Ki-moon, Chair of the IOC Ethics Commission, to immediately open an investigation into Javad Foroughi who was recently awarded a gold medal in the sport of shooting by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The fact that the IOC awarded an Olympic...
Sport Integrity Australia acknowledges the decision of the QRL Anti-Doping Tribunal to sanction athlete Heath Wilson for the presence of a metabolite of a prohibited substance, the use of a prohibited substance, and tampering or attempted tampering with any part of Doping Control. Mr Wilson returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF)...
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has confirmed that two tennis players from Uzbekistan, Temur Ismailov and Amal Sultanbekov, have been banned from the sport, following an investigation into match fixing at a tournament in 2019. Ismailov, who was already serving a seven year ban after a previous investigation is...
