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• IPC to conduct strategic review of classification The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board met in Bonn, Germany (23-25 January 2020) with the subject of classification a hot-topic on the three-day agenda. Having committed in October 2019 at the 19th IPC General Assembly to make classification his top priority...
Stacey Cross, UKAD Deputy Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs: “UK Anti-Doping brought the case against Liam Cameron because cocaine was found in a sample he provided In-Competition. The applicable rules require Liam Cameron to establish how that cocaine got there. If he is unable to do that, the Anti-Doping...
• An anti-doping panel convened by the International Canoe Federation has delivered its decision on a positive drug test returned by Canadian canoe sprint athlete Laurence Vincent Lapointe. After taking into consideration scientific expert evidence provided by Ms Vincent Lapointe’s legal team, and also the miniscule traces of ligandrol...
• 31-year old Brazilian currently ranked 742 in ATP singles has been Provisionally Suspended from professional tennis since March 2019 Brazilian tennis player Joao Olavo Soares de Souza has received a lifetime ban together with a fine of $200,000 after being convicted of multiple match-fixing and associated corruption offences. A...
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee today announced an agreement with its Athletes’ Advisory Council to provide professional, independent operational support to enable the AAC to more effectively and professionally advise the USOPC on behalf of U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The Memorandum of Understanding provides the AAC...
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) held an extraordinary meeting that was graciously hosted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland. Welcomed by IOC President Thomas Bach, the 12 members of the ExCo discussed in particular the appointment of five...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announces that it has provisionally suspended the WADA-approved status of the National Anti-Doping Laboratory of Moscow (Moscow Laboratory), Russia, with immediate effect, pending formal disciplinary action. This provisional suspension prohibits the Moscow Laboratory from carrying out any work related to the analysis of blood samples...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to announce that, effective today, WADA’s new ‘Testing Center’ is available for use by Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) via WADA’s ‘Next Gen’ Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS). Testing Center provides an improved means for ADOs to control, plan (forecast) and manage their...
Meeting in Doha yesterday, an extraordinary meeting of the IWF Executive Board (EB) responded to allegations made by a television report that aired on Germany’s ARD, and acted decisively to restore the IWF’s reputation. A point-by-point analysis of the allegations was considered by the IWF Executive Board before it...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) to sanction athlete Reegan Creedy for the presence and use of a prohibited substance. Mr Creedy returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) from an out-of-competition doping control test on 31 January 2019. His sample...
UKAD has not refused any request from WADA. To clarify, at this moment in time we have not received any request from WADA for reanalysis of samples we hold for any sportsperson. On the specific subject of the Nike Oregon Project, in November 2019 we proactively offered to assist...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Logan Fischer, a U Sports football athlete affiliated with the University of Manitoba, 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 October 22, 2019, revealed...
• Document outlines five commitments, including human rights, diversity and environmental protection, as well as 22 sustainability-related objectives • Over 100 organisations consulted in development process to ensure robust understanding of concerns and opportunities In less than three years’ time, the FIFA World Cup™ will be held in the...
Robert Farah has been provisionally suspended under Article 8.3.1(c) of the 2019 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (the “Programme”), pending determination of the charge against him at a full hearing pursuant to Article 8 of the Programme. Mr. Farah, a 32-year-old player from Colombia, provided a urine sample as part of an...
Athlete rights, health and representation will be the focus of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) inaugural global dialogue on decent work in the world of sport, which opens today in Geneva. At a critical juncture when athletes are striving to assert their voice and have their rights respected, the World...
