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USADA announced today that Vahe Aivazian, 52, of Woodland Hills, Calif., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation involving his possession and use and/or attempted use of multiple prohibited substances. In addition to education and testing, robust anti-doping programs enable...
During the period December 2017 to May 2018, the Swedish Sports Confederation was the target of repeated and comprehensive breaches of their computer system in Sweden. The offence is classified as serious breach of data secrecy. Today, the prosecutor has decided to discontinue the investigation due to the lack...
Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak has been banned from all cricket for eight years after he accepted five charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. Mr. Streak was charged as a participant under the Code by virtue of his status as the coach of Zimbabwe from 2016 to 2018...
• Former cross-country skier Andrus Veerpalu (EST) guilty of participation in the “Operation Aderlass” On 17th March 2021, the CAS Anti-Doping Division found Andrus Veerpalu (EST) guilty of participating in the blood doping scheme known as “Operation Aderlass” and banned him for two years from FIS-sanctioned events. This was...
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has today confirmed that 28 years old Argentinian tennis player Franco Feitt has been banned for life from the sport after admitting to multiple instances of match fixing between 2014 and 2018. The case was considered by Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Raj Parker who ruled...
At the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and as was the case for previous Olympic Games, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) posts the IOC’s Anti-Doping Rules (Rules)and accompanying circular letter applicable to the re-scheduled Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2020 Games) taking place in July and August 2021. The...
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has today released the testing numbers October – December 2020 (Quarter 3 2020-21). You can read the full report here and below. The report, which UKAD publishes quarterly, shows that more than 1,900 (1,926) tests were completed in the last three months of 2020. This is compared...
USADA announced today that Obichukwu Igbokwe, of Houston, Texas, an athlete in the sport of track and field, has accepted a 30-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Igbokwe, 24, tested positive for 4‐chloro‐18‐nor‐17β‐hydroxymethyl, 17α‐methyl‐5α‐androst‐13‐en‐3α‐ol (M3), a metabolite of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT or oral turinabol) and/or other related 4‐chlorinated, 17α‐methylated anabolic...
Various Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panels have issued the following decisions: 1) Awards rendered by CAS following appeals against first-instance decisions issued by CAS acting in lieu of the Russian Athletic Federation CAS 2019/A/6165 Yuliya Kondakova v. World Athletics The appeal filed by Yuliya Kondakova against the...
InnoVero LLC, maker of the innovative SAFESystem™ sample collection kit currently revolutionizing global anti-doping practices, has earned certification through NSF International (NSF), as the first drug testing sample collection and security equipment manufacturer to be recognized as compliant with the NSF P490 Protocol. The newly established NSF P490 Protocol establishes...
The Bureau of the FIFA Council took the following decisions concerning the governance of two member associations. Suspension of the Chadian Football Association The Bureau of the FIFA Council decided to suspend the Chadian Football Association (FTFA) with immediate effect due to government interference. The suspension was prompted by the...
USADA announced today that Richard Burkett, of New Castle, Pa., an athlete in the sport of Para archery, has accepted a 15-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Burkett, 49, tested positive for testosterone and/or its metabolites as the result of an in-competition urine sample collected at the Target Nationals...
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has confirmed that Slovakian Tennis Player Barbora Palcatova has been banned from the sport for a period of three years (with 15 months suspended) after being found guilty of match fixing. The case was heard by Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Ian Mill QC, who ruled...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has resumed the appeal arbitration procedure brought by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) in relation to a decision issued by the FINA Doping Panel dated 3 January 2019 whereby...
Sport Integrity Australia acknowledges the decision of Union Cycliste Internationale to sanction athlete Julie Barnett for the presence of the metabolite of a prohibited substance and use of a prohibited substance. Ms Barnett returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) from an in-competition doping control test at the UCI Masters Track Cycling...
