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USADA announced today that an independent arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has denied the appeal of triathlon athlete Andrew Starykowicz, of Wauconda, Ill., challenging the decision of USADA’s independent TUE Committee (TUEC) to deny his request for a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE). Starykowicz, 38, applied to...
USADA announced today that Raphael Pessoa Nunes, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has accepted a one-year sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Pessoa Nunes, 31, tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) and its metabolites chlorothiazide and 4-amino-6-chloro-1,3-benzenedisulfonamide (ACB) as the result of a sample collected out-of-competition on March 4,...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Mickaël Badra, a U SPORTS football athlete affiliated with the University of Sherbrooke, received a sanction of four years for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during in-competition doping control on October 19, 2019, revealed...
SIGA has taken another significant step to promote good governance in Sport by today establishing a Standing Committee on Race, Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion. This new Standing Committee is set up against a background of increasing incidents relating to racism, gender inequity and other forms of negative discrimination across the...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Ahmad Ahmad, the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and a FIFA Vice-President, guilty of having breached art. 15 (Duty of loyalty), art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts or other benefits) and art. 25 (Abuse of position)...
• Athlete suspended for breaching the terms of his sanction for an anti-doping rule violation The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has banned Ukrainian Para powerlifter Anton Kriukov for a further period of 18 months after violating the terms of his sanction. The athlete was found to have violated the prohibition...
• Commitment to embed Equality Diversity & Inclusivity in all UKA and HCAF strategies. • Ethnicity targets to be set in addition to mandatory unconscious bias training. • Toolkit for ED&I to be created for club use. • LTAR network to be launched to ensure delivery against action plan. The...
Bulgarian tennis player Aleksandrina Naydenova has been issued with a lifetime ban from the sport after an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) found that she had partaken in match fixing activity multiple times between 2015 and 2019. Additionally, she was charged and found guilty of failing to...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Yves Jean-Bart, the President of the Haitian Football Association (FHF) and former FIFA standing committee member, guilty of having abused his position and sexually harassed and abused various female players, including minors, in violation of the FIFA Code of...
• Because of the global pandemic, MPCC is fully aware that these figures are altered by a lower number of ani-doping tests carried out through the year. However, reality can sometimes be unsettling. The global coronavirus pandemic was a serious obstacle to the antidoping fight this year. The World...
After taking note of the recent decision of the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal and the express wish of the members of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) for all associated legal claims brought by parties purporting to act in the name of the organisation to be...
Former Sri Lanka player and coach Nuwan Zoysa has been found guilty of three offences under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code following a hearing by an independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal. Zoysa was charged under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code in November 2018 and has been found guilty on all charges after he...
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the membership of WADA’s five Standing Committees for 2021, which was approved by the Agency’s Executive Committee (ExCo) at its 11 November 2020 meeting(1). In accordance with WADA’s Statutes concerning Standing Committee composition and rotation, on an annual basis, the Agency is required to announce its call...
The FIFA Football Stakeholders Committee (FSC) has backed two sets of landmark reforms to strengthen the protection of female players, as well as football coaches. The reforms, developed in close cooperation with stakeholders, will establish new global minimum standards for female players, particularly in relation to maternity. “Following the recent...
USADA announced today that Jesse Ronson, of London, Ontario, Canada, has accepted a 20-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Ronson, 34, tested positive for metabolite of metandienone (18-nor-17β-hydroxymethyl-17α-methylandrosta-1,4,13-triene-3-one) as the result of a sample collected out-of-competition on July 22, 2020. Metandienone (also known as methandienone) is a...
