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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been informed of the decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal to uphold the revision application filed by Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and to set aside the 28 February 2020 award of a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Panel. The case is in relation...
FIFA has lodged a criminal complaint with Zurich’s cantonal prosecutor as evidence of suspected criminal mismanagement by FIFA’s former management and companies appointed by them in relation to the ‘Haus zur Enge’ has surfaced following an investigation by external experts. The complaint identifies the direct involvement of former FIFA...
USADA announced today that Megan Munsell, of Plano, Texas, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. In addition to education and testing, robust anti-doping programs enable investigations stemming from various sources, including tips (Play Clean Tip Line) and whistleblowers. USADA...
Temur Ismailov a 25-year-old tennis player from Uzbekistan, has been banned for seven years (with two suspended) and fined $12,000 after a Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) investigation found he had breached the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP) rules on several occasions relating to match fixing. The disciplinary case was heard by...
• Camara and Koita positive in UEFA testing after return from Mali Two of our players have tested positive for banned substances in a UEFA doping test. Mohamed Camara and Sekou Koita had been away for around ten days on international duty for Mali for two internationals against Namibia, before...
USADA announced today that Brady Ellison, of Miami, Ariz., an athlete in the sport of archery, has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by him without fault or negligence. As a result, Ellison will not face a period of ineligibility for his...
Egyptian tennis player Mostafa Hatem has been handed a three-year ban from the sport, following an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU). Mr Hatem admitted two breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP) rules and in addition to the ban, a year of which is suspended, he has...
The International Testing Agency (ITA) has been entrusted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with the full support of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), to roll out and manage a global long-term storage and re-analysis program. This follows the successful discovery of a high number of anti-doping rule violations...
The Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) has taken note of the recent Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to partially uphold the sanctions on Russia issued by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Due to the strong evidence of serious manipulation of data collected by WADA, the CAS panel...
The Sports Tribunal has suspended Sean Winters, a member of the New Zealand Powerlifting Federation, for two years for the presence of Octodrine and its metabolite Heptaminol, which are specified substances prohibited in competition. Mr Winters was provisionally suspended without opposition on 16 September 2020. He admitted the violation but...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by the Brazilian judoka Rafaela Silva against the decision taken by the International Judo Federation (IJF) Hearing Panel on 22 January 2020 (the Challenged Decision) in which a two-year period of ineligibility was imposed on her and...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended the Iranian Para athlete Hamid Eslami for four years after committing an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). The Para athletics T11 runner returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited substance in a urine sample provided on 17 August 2019 in an out of...
Report Highlights • A 5.5% increase in the overall number of samples analyzed: 263,519 in 2018 to 278,047 in 2019. • A slight decrease in the total percentage of Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs): 1.05% in 2018 (2,774 AAFs from 263,519 samples) to 0.97% in 2019 (2,702 AAFs from 278,047...
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Athlete Committee is disappointed with the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) not to impose stricter and longer sanctions on Russia in line with those that were recommended by WADA. The Russian authorities have consistently acted in bad faith and it is the...
Sport Integrity Australia CEO David Sharpe has expressed disappointment for Australian athletes as a result of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to reduce the four-year sanction on Russia by the World Anti-Doping Agency. “The reduction of sanctions imposed on Russia will leave Australian athletes asking many...
