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• Approval of Independent Ethics Board; additional seats on Executive Committee for an athlete representative and an independent member, and on Foundation Board for athletes and National Anti-Doping Organizations; and establishment of WADA Athletes’ Council • Athletes’ Anti-Doping Ombuds Program to be piloted next year • New Confidential Sources’...
• The Swedish trotting association (ST) has trained a dog to detect if prohibited substances are present in horse urine. Lykke, which means ‘happiness’ in Swedish, will inspect competition venues, horse boxes, and stables in order to identify horses that should be targeted for testing. • Bernard Sainz, known...
• Members of the EU Parliament (MEPs) expressly reject so-called “super league”. The European Parliament today adopted a comprehensive resolution on EU Sport Policy and called for action to protect European sport from the threat of breakaway competitions like the attempted European super league. Spearheaded by former Polish international...
UK Sport has published pregnancy guidance for the Olympic and Paralympic high-performance community and beyond following a wide-ranging 18-month consultation. UK Sport fundamentally believes that starting a family and being an elite athlete should not be mutually exclusive and, driven by an ambition for our high-performance community to be world...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the appeal arbitration procedure between the Russian high jumper Aleksandr Shustov and World Athletics (WA) & the Russian Athletics Federation (RUSAF). The CAS Panel confirmed the decision dated 5 June 2020 (the Challenged Decision) in which Aleksandr...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA), leading an independent anti-doping program for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), has notified German weightlifter Vicky Schlittig of an apparent anti-doping rule violation. The ITA reports that a sample collected during an in-competition testing mission on 26 September 2021 during the 2021 European...
• Abdullah Ibhais, the former communications director for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup organizers the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, is today entering his fifth day of hunger strike after being arrested and arbitrarily detained on 15 November. Abdullah’s case has been fraught with fair trial violations, and he...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA), leading an independent anti-doping program for the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), asserts anti-doping rule violations against 13 weightlifters after the reanalysis of samples collected in 2012. In the scope of the work carried out by the ITA on the series of allegations of...
The 53rd Congress of World Athletics has concluded following the adoption of a series of important initiatives designed to accelerate the growth of the sport through the next decade. Today the Congress approved the World Plan 2022-2030 which sets clear objectives against World Athletics’ vision for the sport. It builds...
The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) framework on gender identity and sex variations is a significant step forward in sport’s recognition of human rights. This statement is a courageous and informed admission that previous Consensus Statements were not correct. The principles on which the Framework is based provide the platform for...
Since 2018, Shift has been advising the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on a range of topics related to the organization’s responsibility to respect human rights. Today, the IOC released its new Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations, which is the...
Following a two-year consultation process with more than 250 athletes and concerned stakeholders, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today released its new “IOC Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations”. Through this Framework, the IOC seeks to promote a safe and welcoming...
• Events in athletics, canoeing and wrestling from the Olympic Games London 2012 will see medals, diplomas and medallist pins reallocated. The decision was taken during today’s meeting of the International Olympic Committee Executive Board, following the previous disqualification of a number of athletes and the results of their...
• Relevant sample collected out-of-competition from Para athlete prior to the Dubai 2019 World Para Athletics Championships The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended Iranian Para athletics athlete Nikoeimajd Mehran for a period of four years for committing an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). The athlete was found to have...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Phillipe Marcil, a powerlifting athlete, received a two-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during in-competition doping control on August 21, 2021, revealed the presence of tamoxifen, a prohibited hormone and metabolic modulator....
