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• Focus is now on the revenue distribution model for the upcoming 2021/2024 UCC cycle The European Leagues gathered today in London for the first General Assembly of 2019/2020 football season. On the occasion the General Assembly endorsed the Association’s principles to contribute reforming and improving European Club Competitions...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to publish the following proposed drafts of the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and International Standards (Standards), which will be presented for discussion by stakeholders during the Fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport, taking place from 5-7 November 2019 in Katowice,...
Football Federation Australia (FFA) today announced that former Adelaide United player Ken Ilso Larsen has been suspended for 2 years under its National Anti-Doping Policy. FFA has found that Mr Larsen committed the following violation of the National Anti-Doping Policy: presence of the prohibited substance Benzoylecgonine (metabolite of Cocaine). FFA...
In its capacity as a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is responsible for the fight against doping in cycling. As a result, it is obliged to consider all available means for ensuring and enhancing protection for clean cyclists. Recent developments such as the...
USADA announced today that Ty Kurth, of McHenry, Ill., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a two-year sanction after testing positive for a prohibited substance. Kurth, 41, tested positive for testosterone and/or its metabolites, as the result of an in-competition urine sample collected at the Cyclocross State...
On 7-8 October, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) Advisory Group met at WADA’s headquarters in Montreal – for the second time in 2019 – to discuss matters of interest to NADOs worldwide. The Group, which is chaired by Rune Andersen of Anti-Doping Norway and is comprised of...
Boxer Eric Molina has been handed an additional one-month suspension from all sport, having breached Anti-Doping Rules (ADR) during an ongoing period of ineligibility. Mr Molina tested positive for the presence of the prohibited substance dexamethasone following an in-competition test, after a fight against Anthony Joshua on 11 December 2016....
ASADA strongly denies allegations of evidence manipulation reported in the media. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has sole responsibility for setting and determining prohibited substances. It is not possible to manipulate whether or not substances are prohibited. Thymosin Beta 4 was included on the 2010 Prohibited List by WADA under...
Dear President Bach; Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. Ensuring respect for these rights in sport is essential for athletes as competitors, but more importantly it guarantees and recognizes us as people first and athletes second. As we’ve seen time and time again over this...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announces that the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is now officially non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) [Please note that ITF is not the World Taekwondo Federation (World Taekwondo), which is the Olympic Federation for the sport of Taekwondo. ITF is a Signatory to the...
At the two IAAF Council Meetings held in Doha, a series of decisions were made, which have now been communicated to the 214 Member Federations. These decisions include: Marketing and Advertising Regulations The Council approved the principles of a new marketing and advertising approach, devised in agreement with Dentsu. New regulations...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear the appeal filed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) on Friday 15 November 2019. The location will be the Conference Centre of the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace...
USADA announced today that an independent three-member panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) has rendered a decision in the case of swimming athlete Conor Dwyer, of Los Angeles, and has determined that Dwyer should receive a 20-month sanction after testing positive for a prohibited substance. Dwyer, 30, tested positive...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Sayed Aghazada, a former General Secretary of the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF), FIFA standing committee member and AFC Executive Committee member, guilty of various violations of the FIFA Code of Ethics. The investigation into Mr Aghazada concerned the...
USADA announced today that Natalie Franklin, of Greenwood, Ind., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has received a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Franklin, 32, tested positive for ostarine and its metabolite, o-desphenylostarine, and LGD-4033 and its metabolite, di-hydroxy-LGD-4033, as the result of a urine sample collected...
