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British international long-distance runner, Luke Traynor has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). UKAD collected a urine sample from Mr Traynor In-Competition at the Vitality London 10k race on 27 May 2019. Analysis of Mr Traynor’s A Sample returned...
USADA announced today that an independent arbitrator has rendered a decision in the case of UFC®athlete Bruno Arruda da Silva, of Parana, Brazil, and determined that Arruda da Silva should receive a two-year period of ineligibility for his anti-doping policy violation. This decision comes after the facts of the...
On 27 May, the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) held its Funding Committee meeting in the presence of representatives from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and professional road cycling’s stakeholders – teams (AIGCP), riders (CPA) and organisers (AIOCC). On this occasion, it presented the effects of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19)...
Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) player, Mike Burgess has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). This case was charged by UKAD and the decision was made by an independent tribunal of the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP). The athlete appealed...
Venezuelan match official Armando Alfonso Belardi Gonzalez has been suspended for two years and six months and fined $5,000 after being found guilty of committing breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP). $4,000 of the fine is suspended on condition that he commits no further breaches of the TACP....
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to publish, in English and French, the final designed version of the Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act (Act), which WADA’s Athlete Committee developed over two and half years in consultation with thousands of athletes and stakeholders worldwide. The purpose of the Act, which is...
USADA announced today that Rachael Ostovich-Berdon, of Waianae, Hawaii, has accepted a one-year sanction for her violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy (UFC ADP) but has received a four-month credit to her sanction due to time served under a provisional suspension in the latter half of 2019 for an...
• UEFA recommends harmonised end date to next summer transfer window The UEFA Executive Committee met today via videoconference and approved a set of temporary emergency measures as an addendum to the Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play regulations to take into account the adverse effect of COVID-19 on...
Good public policy ideas should not be the preserve of a single political party or region of the country. Good public policy ideas should not be the preserve of a single political party or region of the country. In that regard, I was pleased to see one of the...
The Sports Tribunal has suspended Simeon Woolsey, a member of MotorSport New Zealand, for a period of two years after he ordered Tamoxifen and Clomiphene from an online pharmacy, which are both prohibited substances both in and out of competition. On 4 May 2020, Mr Woolsey was provisionally suspended without...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to publish the final versions of the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and International Standards (Standards), which will come into force on 1 January 2021. These final versions include limited changes from those that WADA published on 26 November 2019, which were the versions...
To my fans, followers, supporters and fellow athletes – I want to make you all aware of a situation I’m currently dealing with. A few days ago, the AIU came to a decision that I’ve been appealing for 6 months that I missed...
Following its initial statement on 4 June, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that on 9 June it received some evidentiary information from the McLaren Independent Investigation Team, which recently completed an investigation into the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). WADA has since started to analyze the newly received information, which...
The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) is launching a global investigation to determine the efficacy of the different laws in relation to the prevention and fight against corruption in Sport – the world’s largest independent coalition in the field of Sport Integrity has revealed today. This comparative study will also...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) recent statement that athletes who ‘take a knee’ in solidarity with the anti-racism movement will face bans is a clear breach of human rights. Athletes around the globe were awestruck with this statement and demanded change. Once again athletes...
