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The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Kelly Branton, a powerlifting athlete, received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during out-of-competition doping control on April 23, 2019, revealed the presence of SARM LGD-4033, SARM S-22, methandienone, stanozolol and...
New research by Amnesty International has revealed the plight of hundreds of migrant workers who are still waiting in vain for unpaid wages and compensation, despite Qatar’s promises to improve workers’ rights. All work, no pay: The struggle of Qatar’s migrant workers for justice highlights how hundreds of migrant workers employed...
The Anti-Doping Hearing Panel of the International Biathlon Union has issued its decision on the case of Russian biathlete Margarita Vasileva, who was alleged to have missed three doping tests in a period of 12 months. After duly deliberating the facts the IBU Anti-Doping Hearing Panel rendered the following...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended South Korean Para ice hockey player Man Gyun Yu for six months for committing an anti-doping violation. The Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 Paralympian returned an adverse analytical finding for hydrochlorothiazide in a urine sample provided on 30 April 2019 following a match...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended Uzbekistani powerlifter Navruzbek Abdurasulov for four years for committing an anti-doping violation. The athlete who competed in the men’s up to 107kg class returned an adverse analytical finding for dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone metabolite 4α-chloro-17β-hydroxymethyl-17α-methyl-18-nor-5α-androst-13-en-3α-ol (DHCMT metabolite) in a urine sample provided on 15 April 2019...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Alexander Shprygin, a former member of the Executive Committee and other committees of the Football Union of Russia, guilty of discrimination in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics. The investigation proceedings against Mr Shprygin referred to media statements and...
Racing Victoria (RV) advises that it received notification in writing late this afternoon from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) on its decisions regarding the appeals lodged by trainers Robert Smerdon, Stuart Webb, Tony Vasil and Liam Birchley in the Aquanita Case. VCAT advised that it has found Smerdon,...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Juan Ángel Napout, a former President of the Paraguayan Football Association and the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) as well as a former FIFA Vice President who had also been a member of several FIFA committees, guilty of...
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced today that Curtis Caron, a para-table tennis athlete, received a six-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. The athlete’s urine sample, collected during out-of-competition doping control on August 8, 2019, revealed the presence of terbutaline, a prohibited beta-2 agonist. Terbutaline...
• The first edition of the UEFA Club Competition Landscape Report looks in detail at the 80 clubs who will play in the group stages of this season’s UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The inaugural edition of the UEFA Club Competition Landscape Report takes a detailed look...
The Afghanistan Cricket Board today terminated the Afghanistan Premier League Sanction and Commercial Rights Agreement with Snixer Sports and postponed season II of the league to next year. The failure by Snixer Sports to pay the complete rights fees of the first edition as per the fees and payment schedule...
The Anti-Doping Hearing Panel (ADHP) of the International Biathlon Union has issued its decisions on the cases against nine Kazakh biathletes, who were alleged to have used, attempted to use and possessed a prohibited method under Articles 2.2 and 2.6 of the IBU Anti-Doping Rules (ADR). In the cases of...
USADA announced today that Dmitrii Smoliakov, of Kaliningrad, Russia, has accepted a two-year sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy after testing positive for prohibited substances. Smoliakov, 37, tested positive for recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) and intact human chorionic gonadtrophin (hCG) as the result of urine samples he...
• 31-year old Brazilian player ranked 373 ATP in doubles is also fined $125,000 and ordered to repay illicit winnings of $12,000 Brazilian tennis player Diego Matos has been banned from professional tennis for life and fined $125,000 after being convicted of multiple match-fixing offences. In addition to the fine,...
The Institute of National Anti-Doping Agencies (iNADO) takes great pleasure in announcing that Jorge Leyva has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer. Leyva is currently the Acting General Manager at iNADO and will take up his new role on December 1, replacing outgoing CEO, Graeme Steel. With almost...
