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The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) acknowledges the decision of the Australian Football League Anti-Doping Tribunal (the Tribunal) to impose an 18-month ban on athlete Samuel Murray for the presence of a metabolite of a prohibited substance. Mr Murray returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) from an in-competition doping control...
Despite being marketed as “natural”, Higenamine is one of the leading causes of positive doping tests in Australia. Be aware, higenamine and other banned substances have been found in a number of supplements and not all of those products have those banned substances listed on the ingredients label. If detected...
Weightlifter, Adrian Canaveral, has been suspended from all sport for a period of eight years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). On 19 September 2018, UKAD Doping Control Officers attempted to collect a sample from Mr Canaveral (who was at the time serving a ban following an ADRV), to which...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan from all cricket for two years, with one year of that suspended, after he accepted three charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. The charges are as follows: Article 2.4.4 – Failure to disclose to the ACU...
The third edition of the International Forum for Sports Integrity (IFSI) today brought together ky leaders from sports and international organisations. More than 100 stakeholders representing the Olympic Movement, intergovernmental agencies such as the Council fo Europe, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Interpol* and Europol**,...
Today, 28 October, Europol and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reinforce cooperation in the fight against corruption in sports. The agreements was signed during the annual International Forum for Sports Integrity, organised by the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland. Enhancing intelligence to...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) can confirm it has received further responses from the Russian authorities to a list of detailed and technical questions, including follow-up questions, raised by WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations Department (I&I) and the independent forensic experts concerning the data that WADA I&I retrieved from the...
The main event at UFC 244 on Saturday November 2, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz will proceed as scheduled. UFC is an industry-leader in anti-doping and we continuously strive and advocate for an effective and fair program for...
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reported 50 cases of suspicious betting to the relevant authorities during the third quarter (Q3) of 2019, bringing the annual total so far to 138 cases. Tennis (30) and football (15) constituted 90% of all alerts reported during Q3, with Europe (42%) and...
Croatian professional boxer, Ivica Bačurin, has been suspended from all sport for a period of four years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). Mr Bačurin initially tested positive for the presence of four prohibited substances following an in-competition test, after a bout with Joe Joyce on 15 June 2018 in...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that David Freake, an athletics athlete, received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during in-competition doping control on May 26, 2019, revealed the presence of GW501516, 2-4-dinitrophenol and recombinant EPO, all prohibited...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in conjunction with the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), is pleased to announce funding for three projects that will explore the possible uses of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance the global anti-doping program. Following a call for applications for targeted research on the application...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published its Independent Observer (IO) Team’s Report regarding the anti-doping program at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus from 21-30 June 2019. As it has done at a number of major events since 2000, WADA sent a team to monitor the anti-doping program that was...
Note: this article has been updated as the initial article did not correctly reflect the results of the Middle Distance competition. The results are not yet official i.e. until published as official on the Military World Games 2019 web page. The CISM Military World Games orienteering events kicked off...
The IBU Extraordinary Congress today cemented its commitment to implementing the highest standards in good governance and transparency as it approved the new IBU Constitution, including the new Integrity Code and Biathlon Integrity Unit. The new Constitution and all other documents brought to the Congress were unanimously approved. This included...
