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• Nicole Sapstead to join International Tennis Integrity Agency after six years as UKAD Chief Executive. • Sapstead to remain in post until August 2021. • UKAD Board begins recruitment process. • UKAD Chair Trevor Pearce commends Sapstead as a highly respected leader. UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Chief Executive Nicole...
The ICC has concluded its investigation into the documentary programme ‘Cricket’s Match Fixers’ broadcast by Al Jazeera on 27 May 2018. No charges will be bought under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code against any of the five Participants to the Code who featured in the programme due to insufficient credible...
USADA announced today that Zach Gehm, of Harmony, Pa., an athlete in the sport of track and field, has accepted an additional three-month sanction for competing while ineligible. Gehm, 21, initially accepted a two-year period of ineligibility and loss of results in November 2019 after his sample, collected in-competition at...
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has today published its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan with four new objectives aligned with its mission to protect clean sport. The four-year plan sets out UKAD’s pathway to harness research and data, which includes the creation of a new Insight and Innovation function. The dedicated Insight and Innovation...
USADA announced today that Keir Pearson, of Irvine, California, an athlete in the sport of rowing, has accepted a lifetime period of ineligibility for anti-doping rule violations involving his possession and/or use of a prohibited substance, as well as the administration of that prohibited substance to another athlete without...
On Monday 10 May, FIFA held a virtual meeting with several member associations and confederations to discuss workers’ welfare reforms and broader human rights in Qatar in connection to the country’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022™. The virtual event was organised in collaboration with the Supreme Committee for...
• Kazakhstan player sanctioned for match fixing The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has confirmed that Kazakhstan tennis player Roman Khassanov has been banned from the sport for 10 years after admitting multiple breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP) rules. In addition to the ban, Khassanov was fined...
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by Mr. André Cardoso against the decision rendered by the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal (UCI ADT) on 15 November 2018. The CAS confirmed that Mr. Cardoso committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV)...
An independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal has unanimously cleared former Sri Lanka player Avishka Gunawardene of two charges against him under the Emirates Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Code, allowing him to resume participation in cricket with immediate effect. The Tribunal, which also considered charges against Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Zoysa for four counts...
• The matter of the other clubs involved in the so-called “Super League” will be referred to the competent UEFA disciplinary bodies. In a spirit of reconciliation, and for the good of European football, nine of the 12 clubs involved in the so-called ‘Super League’ project submitted to UEFA...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to announce that, effective 1 May 2021, Professor Michael McNamee, who holds Professorships in Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Swansea University, Wales, UK assumed the role of Chair of WADA’s Ethics Expert Advisory Group1. Professor McNamee replaces Professor Bartha Knoppers —...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to note that the number of samples collected by Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) around the world is quickly returning to normal despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The latest testing figures, outlined in the tables below, reveal that in March 2021, 22,649 samples were...
Welsh Rugby Union player Morgan Jones is eligible to return to sport following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) for the Presence of a banned substance in his Sample, which resulted in a three month ban from all sport. UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) collected In-Competition urine Samples from Mr Jones on 7...
USADA announced today that Oskar Piechota, of Pomorskie, Poland, has accepted a 22-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Piechota, 31, tested positive for growth hormone releasing peptide 2 (GHRP-2 or pralmorelin) and GHRP-2 (1-3) free acid, a metabolite of GHRP-2, as the result of a urine sample...
• Oral swabs allow for instant results, meaning riders testing positive for cocaine can be prevented riding on the day • Cost effective nature of saliva testing could result in significantly increased testing capacity each year A pilot programme to assess the use of saliva testing as a method...
