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Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that two defendants, SCOTT ROBINSON and SARAH IZHAKI, each pled guilty today to conspiring to unlawfully distribute adulterated and misbranded drugs for the purpose of doping racehorses in connection with the two cases in...
• The Committee approves redesigned, more athlete-friendly 2021 Prohibited List The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) held its third meeting of the year on 14-15 September, during which it received updates on WADA’s progress on key priorities and took a number of decisions, including approval of the...
The UN’s leading anti-corruption agency, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the world football’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to step up their joint cooperation to address threats posed by crime to sport. The MoU,...
United Arab Emirates (UAE) players Amir Hayat and Ashfaq Ahmed have been charged with five counts of breaching cricket’s anti-corruption rules and provisionally suspended with immediate effect. The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) had suspended Ashfaq during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier in October last year but no...
USADA announced today that Jorge Gonzalez Villa, of Mexico City, Mexico, has accepted a two-year sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy. Gonzalez Villa, 36, tested positive for stanozolol metabolites 16β-hydroxystanozolol and 4β-hydroxystanozolol, drostanolone metabolite 2α-methyl-5α-androstan-3α-ol-17-one, and tamoxifen metabolite 3-hydroxy-4-methoxytamoxifen as the result of a urine sample collected...
FIFPro and FIFA have signed a collaboration agreement endorsing a smartphone app that allows professional footballers to anonymously report match-fixing approaches. The Red Button app is wholly-owned by FIFPRO and is being distributed globally to players through its affiliated national player associations. It complements existing confidential reporting platforms already introduced...
The Sexuality and Gender Division (SGD) of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) writes with frustration and anger about the recent outcome of an appeal to the Federal Court Tribunal in Switzerland which upheld a ruling in favour of the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) barring Caster Semenya and...
• Her legal defeat does not legitimize global sport’s ‘system of justice’ The World Players Association today applauded the courage of South African athlete Caster Semenya, who has failed in her two-year legal battle for the right to compete as the woman she is in events in which she...
• Proposed changes could see athletes named at ‘point of charge’ • UKAD ‘keen to hear the views of sport stakeholders’ through public consultation open for six weeks UKAD is today launching a six-week public consultation regarding proposed changes to the public disclosure of the identity of athletes (or...
USADA announced today that Jonathan Wood, of Seattle, Wash., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Wood, 37, tested positive for an anabolic agent as the result of an out-of-competition drug test collected on April 29, 2019. His urine...
Athlete Ally responded today to the devastating news that South African Olympian Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against World Athletics’ (formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations, or IAAF) discriminatory regulation on female athletes with naturally occurring testosterone. As a result, Semenya will not be able to compete...
The recent decision of the Swiss Federal Court to uphold a decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding the IAAF (World Athletics) Regulations on Female Athletes with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) is very unfortunate and offensive to the fundamental human rights of female athletes classified...
Athletics South Africa has decided to continue its pursuit for justice against the sad ruling by the Swiss Federal Tribunal on the discriminating rules of World Athletics regulating participation of women in athletics. The Swiss ruling upholds the IAAF eligibility regulations for female classification (Athletes with Differences in of Sex...
On September 5, 2020 XinhuaNet a China based website ran an interesting piece titled “Kagongo ban highlights failure of Kenya’s anti-doping systems.” In the article the writer implies that the systems put in place in Kenya to curb the doping menace have failed. The writer further states that the...
USADA announced today that a three-member panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) has concluded the case of wrestling athlete Daton Fix, of Stillwater, Okla., determining, with agreement of Fix and USADA via a consent award, that Fix should receive a one-year sanction after testing positive for a prohibited...
