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UK Athletics operates an absolute zero tolerance policy towards the use of banned performance enhancing drugs and methods and toward any and all doping practices within sport. We recognise and take seriously the issues raised by USADA’s ruling and fully supported their investigation. L Carnitine is a legal and scientifically...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned Oman player Yousuf Abdulrahim Al Balushi from all cricket for seven years after he accepted four charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. The charges, which all related to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers 2019 held in the United Arab...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of Motorcycling Australia to sanction athlete Kade Mosig for the Presence; Use and/or Attempted Use (eight separate violations); Possession (six separate violations), and Trafficking and/or Attempted Trafficking (four separate violations) of prohibited substances. Mr Mosig returned an Adverse Analytical Finding...
USADA announced today that Robert Strange, of Solana Beach, Calif., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a one-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Strange, 83, tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) as the result of an in-competition urine sample collected at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Masters...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) will resume testing this week following a temporary suspension, initiated on 3 February, of its testing program on mainland China due to the coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. WADA, the global regulator of anti-doping, has been closely monitoring...
South African wheelchair tennis player Lucas Sithole has accepted the International Tennis Federation (ITF)’s decision to ban him for two years from all forms of competition. This follows Sithole’s failure to comply with the requirement to make himself available and accessible for testing three times within a 12-month period. The two-time...
• The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has filed an indictment against the former Secretary General of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Jerôme Valcke, the chairman of the BeIN Media Group, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, and a businessman in the sports rights sector in connection with...
United World Wrestling this week confirmed that three wrestlers from the 2019 Senior Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan have had their results disqualified following Anti-Doping Rules Violations. Following Doping Controls and the results management conducted by the International Testing Agency (ITA) on behalf of United World Wrestling, the Anti-doping Rules...
• In 2019, the IFF initiated a total 93 doping controls and there were no anti-doping rule violations in the IFF initiated tests. Out of these 93 IFF tests, 54 tests were conducted in the IFF Events (in-competition tests) and 39 were IFF out-of-competition tests including five samples analysed...
The Anti-Doping Hearing Panel of the International Biathlon Union has issued its decisions in the cases of Russian biathletes Mrs Svetlana Sleptsova and Mr Evgeny Ustyugov, who were charged with anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) based on analytical findings recorded in the Moscow Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) database in...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the appeal arbitration procedure between the Brazilian swimmer Gabriel Da Silva Santos and the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The CAS Panel has set aside the decision rendered by the FINA Doping Panel in July 2019 (the Challenged...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has partially upheld an appeal filed by the Russian race walker Alexander Ivanov against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in relation to a decision issued by the RUSADA Anti-Doping Committee in October 2018 (the Challenged Decision). The period of ineligibility imposed on...
Manchester City is disappointed but not surprised by today’s announcement by the UEFA Adjudicatory Chamber. The Club has always anticipated the ultimate need to seek out an independent body and process to impartially consider the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence in support of its position. In December 2018, the...
• UEFA takes note of the decision of the independent Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), issued today UEFA takes note of the decision of the independent Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), issued today, which included the following summary of its content...
The independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) held its latest meeting on 10-11 February 2020 in Montreal, Canada, to discuss a number of issues related to compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code). This CRC meeting was the first one to be held under...
