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USADA announced today that Michael Bond, of Cotati, Calif., an athlete in the sport of powerlifting, has tested positive for multiple prohibited substances and accepted a four-year sanction for his anti-doping rule violation. Bond, 28, tested positive for ostarine, RAD140, and GW1516 metabolites GW1516 sulfone and GW1516 sulfoxide as the...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is conducting an appeal arbitration procedure brought by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) in relation to a decision issued by the FINA Doping Panel dated 3 January 2019 whereby...
The Bureau of the FIFA Council today decided to appoint a normalisation committee for the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) in accordance with art. 14 par. 1 (a) and art. 8 par. 2 of the FIFA Statutes. The decision follows the recent resignation of the EFA President and the entire EFA...
• Chilean player ranked 1082 ATP singles failed to co-operate with a Tennis Integrity Unit investigation and did not to report a corrupt approach Chilean tennis player Juan Carlos Saez has been suspended for eight years and fined $12,500 after being found guilty of failing to co-operate with a...
Canadian athlete Laurence Vincent-Lapointe has returned a positive test to a banned substance and has been provisionally suspended, meaning the 11-time world champion will not be competing at this week’s ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. Vincent-Lapointe will remain provisionally suspended until due process has been completed. A...
• Justice Delayed is Justice Denied for Women Athletes The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) needs to act more swiftly on complaints and evidence brought by women players of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse by leaders of the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF), Human Rights Watch said today. Specifically, FIFA needs...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Samson Siasia, a former official of the Nigeria Football Federation, guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics. The formal ethics proceedings against Mr...
Dear All African Athletes; Global Athlete would like to publicly lend its support to Nigerian Athlete Blessing Okagbare who recently spoke up about the need for enhanced athlete rights, training funding and general compensation leading up to the African Games, which runs from 19-31 August in Rabat, Morocco. Global...
Motorsport athlete, Peter Newman, has been suspended from all sport for a period of two years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). Mr Newman tested positive for the presence of the prohibited substance carboxy-THC (a metabolite of cannabis), following an in-competition test at the 2018 Tuto Money Super One British...
USADA announced today that Joane Orbon, of San Jose, Calif., an athlete in the sport of karate, has accepted a nine-month sanction after testing positive for a prohibited substance from a contaminated supplement. Orbon, 24, tested positive for di-hydroxy-LGD-4033, a metabolite of LGD-4033, as the result of an in‐competition urine...
The independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) held its latest meeting on 6-7 August 2019 in Montreal, Canada, to discuss a number of issues related to compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code). In particular, these included: • An update regarding the analysis of...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of Rugby Australia to impose a two-year ban on athlete Alex Hatzis for the presence of a prohibited substance. Mr Hatzis returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) from an in-competition doping control test on 14 July 2018. His sample was...
• Indian athletes will still be permitted to compete at the upcoming World Archery Youth Championships. World Archery has suspended the Archery Association of India effective Monday 5 August 2019. A previous executive board decision gave a deadline of the end of July for the election situation to be...
I am extremely disappointed in the NFL for following through with this suspension. In life there are real world instances where a totality of the circumstances must be analyzed. This is one such case. Rob has a medical history with seizures that requires him to take multiple doses of...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) today acknowledged the decision of Powerlifting Australia (PA) to impose a two-year ban on athlete Lauren Simpson for the presence and use of a prohibited substance. Ms Simpson returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) from an out-of-competition doping control test on 13 July 2018....
