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• Sport & Rights Alliance Calls for Protection, Remedy, Governance Reform The International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) report on systemic sexual harassment and abuse within the Mali Basketball Federation (FMBB) vindicates the victims of abuse, survivors, whistleblowers, and activists who took enormous risks to bring this abuse to light, the Sport...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Hearing Panel has issued Decisions to sanction Russian weightlifters Andrei Demanov, Arsen Borganov and Aleksey Emelyaneko with anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) for the presence of prohibited substances. The ADRVs were based on investigations conducted by the...
In light of the range of predisposed decisions and communications made by FIFA recently in amending or planning future reform of the International Match Calendar (IMC), in direct and unilateral breach of certain legal obligations, ECA – as the voice of professional football clubs of Europe – feels compelled...
The monitoring group of the Council of Europe Convention against Doping in Sport arrived in Moscow on September 21, 2021 at the invitation of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation to assess the current situation and future plans to combat doping in sport in Russia. The experts included...
On 19 August 2021, the National Anti Doping Agency Germany (NADA) decided, as part of the results management and disciplinary proceedings, that the former top international athlete Björn Thurau (cycling) had violated anti-doping regulations, in particular the Anti-Doping-Code of the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer eV (BDR-ADC). These are violations of...
• Dario Drebenstedt found guilty of offenses at a tournament in 2021 The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has today confirmed that German tennis player Dario Drebenstedt has been banned from the sport for 12 months and fined $5000 after being found guilty of several breaches of Tennis Anti-Corruption...
On 19 July, WADA sent us a letter requesting further information regarding the experiment in our documentary ‘Guilty’ from July 17, relating to the possibility of sabotage through the skin. We answered as requested. Information supplied included names and doses of the four anabolic steroids and carrier substance used...
• Proper consultation, rather than media announcements needed on impact and consequences of potential radical move In May 2021, the FIFA Congress mandated the FIFA administration to conduct a study into the feasibility of a Men’s and Women’s World Cup every two years. UEFA assumes that the word ‘feasibility’ encompasses...
The International Cricket Council (ICC), on behalf of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), has charged former West Indies player Marlon Samuels with breaching four counts of the ECB Anti-Corruption Code for Participants of the T10 League (the ‘Code’). Mr Samuels has been charged with the following offences under the Code:...
The Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS ADD) has issued the following decision in relation to the Latvian biathlete Andrejs Rastorgujevs: • The Request for Arbitration filed by the International Biathlon Union on 3 May 2021 is partially upheld. • Andrejs Rastorgujevs is found to...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ruled that the physician and endocrinologist, Dr. Jeffrey Brown, and the former elite-level long distance runner and head coach of the Nike Oregon Project (NOP), Alberto Salazar (the Appellants), committed a number of anti- doping rule violations (ADRVs) and has confirmed...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by Sports Integrity Australia (SIA) (formerly, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA)) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the first instance decision issued by the CAS Oceania Registry on 16 November 2020 (the Appealed Decision) in...
• The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports that it has issued the Decision to sanction Moldovan Doctor Dorin Balmus to a lifetime period of ineligibility due to anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) for Tampering and Complicity. The ITA reports that on 8 November 2015, during a sample collection mission in...
The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation is ready to continue working together with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the interests of the global anti-doping movement. This was announced today, September 15, by the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Oleg Matytsin during a business meeting...
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) President, Witold Bańka, Director General, Olivier Niggli, and other members of WADA Leadership met with the Sports Minister of the Russian Federation, Oleg Matytsin, and other members of his delegation in Istanbul, Turkey. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the...
