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• Scott Robinson also Ordered to Forfeit Over $3,000,000 Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SCOTT ROBINSON was sentenced today to 18 months in prison in connection with ROBINSON’s years-long sale and distribution of adulterated and misbranded drugs, including performance-enhancing...
In connection with the broadcast on 06.03.2021 by bTV reporters, we, the Bulgarian Swimming Federation, want to give our official position. We stand firmly behind the three competitors and will provide all possible assistance in the process of establishing the truth. Never in their training or during competitions has...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the appeal filed by Mr Ahmad Ahmad against the decision of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee issued on 19 November 2020 (grounds served on 21 January 2021) (the Challenged Decision). The CAS Panel has...
Prominent Iranian athletes and human rights activists with the United For Navid campaign are standing together to demand that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) immediately address violations of the Olympic Charter by the Iran Olympic Committee. This week, the United For Navid campaign provided the International Olympic Committee with a...
USADA announced today that James Ellis, of Phoenix, Ariz., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a six-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Ellis, 34, tested positive for 11-nor-9-carboxy-tetrahydrocannabinol (Carboxy-THC), a urinary metabolite of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive constituent of cannabis, marijuana, and/or hashish, above the...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announces that, in accordance with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL), WADA President, Witold Bańka, in his capacity as Chair of the Agency’s Executive Committee, yesterday approved, with immediate effect, the reinstatement of accreditation of the Helsinki Doping Control Laboratory (Helsinki Laboratory) at the Finnish...
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board has today launched a widespread consultation exercise for its draft governance reforms, while also announcing the anticipated dates of Congressional and Electoral Congresses. “Only four months have passed since the IWF established its Reform and Governance Commission ,” said IWF Interim President Dr...
• AFL confirms that the Anti-Doping Tribunal has imposed a two-year period of ineligibility on William Rioli The AFL confirms that the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal has imposed a two-year period of ineligibility on William Rioli of the West Coast Eagles and all relevant appeal rights have now expired. The...
USADA announced today that an independent arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association (AAA) has concluded the case of rugby athlete Lorenzo Thomas, of St. Charles, Mo., and has determined that Thomas should receive a four-year sanction for his anti-doping rule violations. The decision comes after the facts of the...
Sport Integrity Australia acknowledges the decision of the National Rugby League (NRL) to impose a one-month ban on athlete Brent Naden for the presence of metabolites of a prohibited substance. Mr Naden, a rugby league player who competed for Penrith Panthers in the NRL competition, returned an Adverse Analytical Finding...
The International Judo Federation (IJF) has been informed today that in the arbitration case under caption regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran Judo Federation’s suspension, the CAS decided on March 1st, 2021 to refer the matter back to the IJF Disciplinary Commission for “eventual further decisions”. The CAS award...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued the Arbitral Award in the appeal arbitration procedures between the Islamic Republic of Iran Judo Federation (I.R.I. JF) and the International Judo Federation (IJF) relating to the decisions issued by the IJF Disciplinary Commission which saw the I.R.I. JF indefinitely...
Seventeen former British gymnasts, including three Olympians, have served a Letter of Claim on British Gymnastics, the sport’s governing body, outlining allegations of systemic physical and psychological abuse, perpetrated by coaches upon children as young as six. The claimants allege that during training and competitions they were subjected to...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has ruled that the conduct of Franz Beckenbauer, Theo Zwanziger and Horst R. Schmidt in connection with the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ cannot be prosecuted due to the expiry of the applicable limitation period for prosecution in accordance with Article 12...
Mokgadi Caster Semenya’s ongoing fight for dignity, equality, and the human rights of women in sport took a crucial step forward with the filing of an application to the European Court of Human Rights. Caster asks the Court to find that Switzerland has failed in its positive obligations to...
