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On 14th May 2020 the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reported suspicious betting on a Darts match to be played later that day between Wessel Nijman and David Evans in the Modus Icons of Darts at home series. This was an amateur series regulated by the DRA, unconnected with the...
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport rules against Blake Leeper competing in Olympic Games and World Athletics Series Competitions with current mechanical aids (prosthetics) World Athletics’ rules permit competitive use of aids such as prosthetics if they do not give the user an artificial competitive advantage over those...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the arbitration procedure between the US bilateral transtibial amputee sprinter Blake Leeper and World Athletics (formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)) concerning the decision taken by World Athletics (WA) on 18 February 2020 denying Blake...
• 24 arrested for producing and trafficking doping substances The French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale/OCLAESP) and the French Customs (Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects), supported by the Financial Division of the Hellenic Police (Διεύθυνση Οικονομικής Αστυνομίας) and Europol, took down a criminal network involved in the production and trafficking...
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes its revised Policy for the Acceptance of New World Anti-Doping Code Signatories (Signatory Policy), which was approved by the Agency’s Executive Committee (ExCo) during its meeting of 14-15 September 2020. The revised Signatory Policy, which will come into force on 1 January 2021,...
ESIC and ESEA have been jointly investigating multiple instances of breaches of ESIC’s Anti-Corruption Code within the Mountain Dew League (“MDL”) by several individuals. In this statement, ESIC and ESEA issue the first formal findings resulting from the joint investigation in which seven CS:GO professionals have been issued with 12...
• WADA publishes provisional outcomes of its ongoing investigation into weightlifting • Inquiry into practice of real-time urine substitution by athletes and the use of ‘doppelgängers’ has uncovered suspected cases involving 18 weightlifters from six countries • Call for additional powers for WADA’s independent Intelligence and Investigations Department The...
Rugby union player Kurt Brown has been banned from all sport for a period of four years following a first Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) collected an In-Competition urine sample from Mr Brown on 1 February 2020 after a match between his team, Lydney RFC, and Sidmouth RFC....
USADA announced today that Chase Sherman, of Gulfport, Miss., has accepted a nine-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Sherman, 30, tested positive for anastrozole as the result of a sample collected in-competition at UFC Fight Night on May 13, 2020. Anastrozole is a Specified Substance in the...
Rugby league player Andrew Lea has been banned from all sport for four years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) for the presence of prohibited substances. On 9 January 2020, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) collected an out-of-competition urine sample from Mr Lea at a Rochdale Hornets training session. Analysis of Mr Lea’s...
The Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) has completed the investigation it initiated in the aftermath of Remco Evenepoel’s crash at Il Lombardia on 15th August 2020 and the viewing of a video that showed a Team Deceuninck-Quick Step Sport Director removing an item from the rider’s pocket before placing it...
USADA announced today that Flavia Maria De Oliveira Paparella, of Castro Valley, Calif., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a six-month suspension for her second anti-doping rule violation in a 10-year period. Paparella’s first violation was announced in 2019, when she received a six-month suspension from...
The investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has concluded its investigation proceedings against Yves Jean-Bart, President of the Haitian Football Association, and submitted its final report together with the investigation files to the adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee. The investigatory chamber has further expanded the scope of...
• In the context of various criminal proceedings in connection with its football-related investigations, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has since December 2019 secured the forfeiture of around CHF 36.6 million held in frozen bank accounts in Switzerland and returned these funds to the entitled...
The National Rugby League (NRL) has today provisionally suspended Parramatta Eels player Michael Jennings under the NRL’s Anti-Doping Policy. The Provisional Suspension Notice asserts that Mr Jennings returned a positive A-sample for LGD-4033 (Ligandrol) and its metabolite Di-hydroxy-LGD-4033, and also Ibutamoren and its metabolites Desbenzyl Ibutamoren and OH Ibutamoren. Each...
