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The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces today that Ms Denise Betsema was sanctioned with a six-month ineligibility period following an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), for the presence of an anabolic androgenic steroid in samples collected during the Telenet UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup round in Hoogerheide (the Netherlands), on 27...
• Premiership Rugby confirms that Saracens Rugby Club will be relegated from the Premiership at the end of the 2019-2020 season. This action follows the conclusion of dialogue between Premiership Rugby and Saracens over the club’s compliance with the Salary Cap Regulations, which began in November 2019 after the...
• The number of doping cases revealed in 2019 amongst cycling’s professional elites has nearly doubled in the span of one year. The MPCC takes it as a serious warning. Since the creation of our credibility barometer six years ago, cycling figures had never been this alarming. A year ago,...
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is warning against the use of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPED), for Gen Z and millennial males who are looking to transform their bodies this year, many of whom will already have given up on the healthier eating and new gym regimes they started at...
• Commission continues engagement with charity as a result of concerns The Commission has opened a statutory inquiry to examine concerns about the way the Professional Footballers’ Association Charity PFAC (charity number 1150458) is managed. A statutory inquiry is the Commission’s most serious intervention. The PFAC’s purpose is to...
I would like to use this opportunity to address what just happened to me. Last November, while I was playing Davis Cup for Chile, I underwent two urine tests. The first one was clean, but the second one detected two banned substances. The levels of these substances are so...
Nicolas Jarry has been provisionally suspended under Article 8.3.1(c) of the 2019 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme, pending determination of the charge against him at a full hearing pursuant to Article 8 of the Programme. Mr. Jarry, a 24-year-old player from Chile, provided a urine sample on 19 November 2019 in association...
Rugby Union player Henry Hadfield has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). Mr Hadfield provided a urine Sample Out-of-Competition on 17 April 2019. Analysis of Mr Hadfield’s Sample returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for higenamine and its metabolite coclaurine....
Professional boxer Liam Cameron has been suspended for a period of four years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). Mr Cameron provided a urine Sample In-Competition, following a bout against Mr Nicky Jenman for the Commonwealth (British Empire) Middleweight Title, on 27 April 2018. Analysis of Mr Cameron’s A Sample...
Basketball player Alfredie (AJ) Roberts has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). Mr Roberts provided a Sample In-Competition on 19 May 2019, following the British Basketball League Final between the London City Royals and Leicester Riders. Analysis of Mr...
USADA announced today that Sean O’Malley, of Phoenix, Ariz., has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a reduced six-month sanction, consistent with other supplement contamination cases, for his second anti-doping policy violation. O’Malley, 25, tested positive for ostarine as the result of out-of-competition urine samples he provided on...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) confirmed today that Malcom Lee, a U SPORTS football athlete affiliated with the University of British Columbia, 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 March 22, 2019,...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that, today, it filed a formal request for arbitration with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, to resolve the dispute related to the non-compliance case against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). This request for arbitration was filed in accordance with...
Basketball player William Ohuaregbe, who was registered with London City Royals, has been suspended from all sport for a period of four years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). Mr Ohuaregbe provided a Sample In-Competition on 10 March 2019, following the British Basketball League Trophy Final between the London City...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of the NSW Rugby League Anti-Doping Tribunal to impose a two-year ban on athlete Thomas Carr for the presence of prohibited substances and use of a prohibited substance. Mr Carr, who played for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in the Intrust...
