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The Gaelic Athletic Association and Sport Ireland today jointly announced that Raymond Walker has committed an anti-doping rule violation. Mr Walker has accepted a period of ineligibility of 4 years commencing on February 18, 2020. In a doping control test at a training session on February 18, 2020, he provided...
• Deepak Agarwal, one of the team owners of the Sindhis franchise in the 2018 T10 league, accepted one charge of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned Deepak Agarwal from all cricket for two years, with six months of that suspended, after he...
• The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. The IOC is currently conducting additional analyses on the samples collected from...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of the Australian Football League to impose a 12-month ban on athlete Brayden Crossley for the presence of a metabolite of a prohibited substance. Mr Crossley returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) from an in-competition doping control test on 25...
Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel, Mr Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan, in a short order on Monday, handed Umar Akmal a three-year ban from all cricket. The PCB will release reasons as soon as it receives them from Justice Chauhan. In a detailed hearing held at the National Cricket Academy, Umar...
USADA announced today that Rowdy Hurst, of West Bountiful, Utah, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has received a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Hurst, 29, tested positive for an exogenous anabolic agent, clomiphene and its metabolites, and modafinil and its metabolite modafinil acid, as a result...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) acknowledges the decision of the NSW Rugby League (NSWRL) to impose a four-year ban on athlete Andrew Diomei for the presence of a prohibited substance and the metabolites of prohibited substances and the use of prohibited substances. Mr Diomei returned an Adverse Analytical Finding...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Derek Plug, a bobsleigh athlete, received an eight-year sanction for a second anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during out-of-competition doping control on January 9, 2018, revealed the presence of methyltestosterone, a prohibited anabolic agent. In...
Dear Member of Congress: We are Olympic & Paralympic athletes, elite athletes, coaches, sport leaders, sexual abuse survivors, and supporters writing to ask you to support immediate enactment of S. S.2330 – “Empowering Olympic and Amateur Athletes Act of 2019” without any weakening amendments. On November 13, 2019 the Senate...
A decision has been issued under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (the “Programme”) that Nicolas Jarry has committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1. That decision imposed a period of ineligibility of eleven months, commencing on 16 December 2019. Mr. Jarry, a 24-year-old player from Chile, provided a urine...
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the UCI Ethics Commission has completed its report in the case involving Mr Patrick Van Gansen (former manager of the UCI Women’s Team Health Mate – Ladies Team) related to allegations by a number of riders of harassment. Following completion of the report...
The Board of SASCOC has noted with disappointment the latest regrettable attacks on its integrity by Mr Barry Hendricks. On 15 April 2020, SASCOC placed Mr Hendricks, who was the Acting President, on leave of absence pending the outcome of an investigation to be conducted by SASCOC’s Judicial Body, to...
USADA announced today that Nicholas Saccente, of Springfield, Mass., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has received an eight-year suspension for a second violation involving his possession and use or attempted use of prohibited substances and his failure to properly file and maintain his Whereabouts information. During an investigation,...
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met today for an Executive Project Review via teleconference. IOC Coordination Commission Chair John Coates and Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi joined Tokyo 2020 President Mori Yoshiro and CEO Muto Toshiro...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Marc-André Lauzon, a cheer athlete, received a sanction of four years for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during out-of-competition doping control on December 29, 2019, revealed the presence of GW501516, a prohibited metabolic modulator....
