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The World Athletics Council has today decided to expel the Russian Federation (RusAF) from membership of World Athletics if it does not make the outstanding payments of a $US5 million fine and $US1.31 million in costs before 15 August. The Council, meeting by teleconference due to the ongoing global Covid-19...
• The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Disciplinary and Ethics Committee has taken tough action on match-manipulation by banning Laos national team player, Thipphonexay Inthavongsa, from taking part in any football related activities for life. He was found to have committed offences under Article 66.1 of the AFC Disciplinary and...
FIFA acknowledges the decision of the Swiss Special Federal Public Prosecutor in opening an investigation regarding the meetings involving the FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber. FIFA, including the FIFA President, remains at the disposal of the Swiss authorities and will, as we have...
• The Special Federal Public Prosecutor makes application to the competent parliamentary committees to grant the authority to conduct criminal proceedings against Attorney General Michael Lauber. At the same time, he commences criminal proceedings against FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Upper Valais, Rinaldo...
World Athletics today announces further revisions to its rules governing shoe technology, which are designed to give certainty to athletes preparing for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to preserve the integrity of elite competition. These amendments, approved by the World Athletics Council last week, are based on significant...
USADA announced today that Vladyslav Dombrovskiy, of Colorado Springs, Colo. an athlete in the sport of wrestling, has accepted a four-year suspension for a violation involving his possession and use or attempted use of prohibited substances and his refusal to provide a urine sample. Dombrovskiy, 30, refused to provide a...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that broadens the scope of information shared about marketed products as well as biomedical products that are still in the early stages of research and development, with...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that, following an appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), triathlete Dominika Jamnicky bears no fault and will not receive a sanction for a confirmed anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during out-of-competition doping control...
USADA announced today that an independent arbitrator has rendered a decision in the case of UFC®athlete Gilbert Melendez, of Brisbane, Calif., and determined that Melendez should receive a two-year period of ineligibility for his anti-doping policy violation, precluding him from competing in any UFC bouts. This decision comes after...
• Independence, transparency, accountability and human rights must drive change Athletes can no longer accept that their demands for proper reforms of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have not been addressed. Time after time, athletes’ calls for change have been cast aside or written off as misinformed, despite the...
USADA announced today that Taff Woolsey, of Port Orchard, Washington, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a two-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation involving his possession of a prohibited substance. In addition to education and testing, robust anti-doping programs enable investigations stemming from various sources, including...
USADA announced today that Danielle Rante, of Dayton, Ohio, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Rante, 40, tested positive for 19-norandrosterone (19-NA), the main urinary metabolite of nandrolone (19-nortestosterone) and other 19-norsteroids, as a result of an out-of-competition drug...
Welsh Rugby Union player Adam Hoskins has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following a first Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) collected a urine Sample from Mr Hoskins In-Competition on 3 January 2020, following a match between Ebbw Vale RFC v Merthyr...
Boxer Roseanna Cox has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following a first Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). UKAD collected an Out-of-Competition urine Sample from Ms Cox at a boxing gym on 29 March 2019. Analysis of Ms Cox’s Sample returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF)...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) in New Delhi, India, for a second period of up to six months. An original six-month suspension was imposed in August 2019 due to non-conformities with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL) identified during a WADA...
