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The Sports Movement and Public Authorities formally adopted a revised World Anti-Doping Code in late 2019 at the World Conference Against Doping in Sport in Poland. National Anti-Doping Agencies such as the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS)* have one year to adapt the Code into National Anti-Doping...
The Bureau of the FIFA Council today suspended the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) with immediate effect due to grave violations of the FIFA Statutes. The suspension was prompted by the former leadership of the TTFA lodging a claim before a local court in Trinidad and Tobago in order...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to publish the revised 2021 International Standard for the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information (ISPPPI), which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) during its 14-15 September 2020 meeting and enters into force on 1 January 2021. Similar to the 2021 World...
USADA announced today that Ridouane Harroufi, of Fort Collins, Colo., an athlete in the sport of track and field, has accepted an eight-year suspension for his second anti-doping rule violation. Harroufi’s first violation was announced in 2013, when he received a two-year suspension from World Athletics for his use...
• Decisions rendered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the appeal arbitrations between Russian athletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova and Olga Zaytseva, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decisions in the appeals filed by Russian biathletes...
• The World Squash Federation (WSF) will delegate its entire anti-doping program to the International Testing Agency in January 2021, including results management and the development of an education plan for its athletes. From January 2021 onwards, the ITA will take over the entire anti-doping programme from the WSF...
Regarding the latest events, I want to clarify the following: The French Gendarmerie carried out an operation in the hotel where my team was staying on Wednesday, 16 September in Méribel, after the Tour de France stage was over. That day, the authorities entered my room and seized perfectly...
• Canadian athletes asking for additional meaningful opportunities to celebrate unity and inclusion at Games On Monday, the Canadian Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission (COC AC) shared its recommendations for Rule 50 as part of the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission (IOC AC) consultation process with athletes from around the...
USADA announced today that Lara Fritzen Procopio, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has accepted a six-month sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Fritzen Procopio, 24, tested positive for ostarine as the result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on February 17, 2020. Ostarine is a non-Specified Substance...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is further strengthening its successful Intelligence and Investigations Department (I&I) with the addition of a section dedicated to investigating non-compliance by Signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code (Code). The recruitment process is already underway for the Compliance Investigation Section (CIS), consisting of an Intelligence Analyst...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has today signed an agreement with Sportradar Integrity Services – the world’s leading supplier of sports integrity solutions and sports data products – to support its Anti-Corruption Unit in monitoring and safeguarding the integrity of matches in the 2020 IPL season. As part...
USADA announced today that Matthew McCullough, of Houston, Texas, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a 20-month sanction after testing positive for a prohibited substance. McCullough, 25, tested positive for higenamine as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample he provided on July 28, 2020. Higenamine is...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Jasonpreet Bains, a U SPORTS wrestling athlete affiliated with the University of the Fraser Valley, received a sanction of four years for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during in-competition doping control on February 21,...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) welcomes the decision by the Correctional Tribunal in Paris, France, to convict six people, including the former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF, today World Athletics), Lamine Diack, on charges of corruption linked to the Russian doping scandal. Based in part on...
This has been a long five years and we would like to thank the French Prosecutors and the Paris Criminal Court for their time, detailed work and deliberations in to this case. Whilst we are disappointed this happened in our sport, we are grateful for the strong and clear decisions...
