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USADA announced today that Janelle Shafer, of Olathe, Kan., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Shafer, 26, tested positive for ostarine as the result of a urine sample collected out-of-competition on January 21, 2019. Ostarine is a non-Specified Substance...
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) has advised Italian Grand Prix rider Andrea Iannone that he is provisionally suspended pursuant to Article 7.9.1 of the 2019 FIM Anti-doping Code (CAD). The decision to provisionally suspend Mr Andrea Iannone was mandatory following the receipt of a report from the WADA...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Terrence Mendes, a powerlifting athlete, received a two-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during in-competition doping control on September 14, 2019, revealed the presence of cannabis. The presence of cannabis, classified as...
USADA announced today that an independent arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rendered a decision in the case of Paralympic track and field athlete Stirley Jones, of San Clemente, Calif., and has determined that Jones’ four-year sanction imposed by an independent American Arbitration Association (AAA)...
USADA announced today that weightlifting athlete, Amy Hay, of Portland, Ore., is entitled to a reduction in her suspension due to substantial assistance she provided to USADA. Hay initially received a two-year suspension and loss of results in October of 2017 from a three-member panel of the American Arbitration Association...
• The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, reiterated the importance of strengthening the credibility and integrity of sport in order to safeguard the Olympic Values and the power of sport as a vehicle for peace. Speaking at the General Conference of the International Partnership Against...
The FIM and Mr. Christian Craig signed a settlement agreement on 9 December 2019, by which a twenty-two month period of ineligibility starting on 10 March 2018 and ending on 31 December 2019 were imposed on Mr Craig. Following a routine In-Competition test conducted at the 2018 AMA Supercross, an...
Today I have made a decision that perhaps has been a long time coming. A decision that I am certain of, but one that also fills me with disappointment and regret. Today I am resigning from the WADA Athlete Committee. Events over the past two years have fundamentally shaken...
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) unanimously endorsed the recommendation made by the independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) for a period of four years. Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, the 12-member ExCo supported the CRC’s...
Dear Mr President, As the President of the International Fencing Federation I understand the importance of the matters that will be considered on December 9, 2019. I fully support the most severe sanctions against any doping offenders but only if the decisions are fair and based on general principles...
• At the invitation of the International Olympic Committee, the leading representatives of the Olympic movement met in Lausanne over the last two days for the 8th Olympic Summit (list of participants below). The Olympic Summit forms part of the ongoing consultation process on important issues of significance for...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of Athletics Australia to impose a four-year ban on athlete Holly Bender for the presence of a prohibited substance and the metabolites of a prohibited substance, the use of a prohibited substance, and tampering or attempted tampering with any...
• A statement released on behalf of the UK Anti-Doping Athlete Commission: “The UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Athlete Commission is calling on the members of the WADA Executive Committee (ExCo) to implement the strongest possible sanctions to protect sport when they meet next week. The UKAD Athlete Commission works to ensure...
UK Anti-Doping and the professional boxer, Dillian Whyte, can today jointly confirm that Mr Whyte was charged with an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) earlier this year, but that this charge has now been withdrawn. The charge was brought after a sample provided by Mr Whyte on 20 June 2019 indicated...
The Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) commends WADA’s Intelligence and Investigation Team and the group of independent forensic experts for securing evidence that, laboratory information under the authority and control of the Russian Government, has been selectively and systematically tampered with in an effort to obstruct ongoing WADA...
