• A media statement published by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) today highlighting how public perception of the integrity of sport is affected by doping revealed that UKAD has prosecuted 194 anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) from ‘over 58,000 tests’. That means that at its highest, UKAD has converted 0.33% of its doping tests into ADRVs. As UKAD was established in 2009, it has prosecuted just over 24 ADRVs per year, on average.

• The second chamber of Italy’s National Anti-Doping Tribunal (TNA) has dismissed the appeal of Gianluca Muscatello against a two-year ban issued by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADO Italia). Muscatello, an amateur cyclist, appealed against a two-year ban issued in April.

• Kent Gammon, who heads Jamaica’s independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel, has told Reuters that Commonwealth Games 200m bronze medalist Jason Livermore has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for an unnamed substance. Livermore also won gold at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 4x100m with Usain Bolt, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade. Jamaica’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel is not part of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO).

• Europol has held a meeting in The Hague designed to increase synergies in the fight against match-fixing and corruption in sport. The meeting was welcomed by sports integrity body ESSA, which was a partner in the KCOOS+ project developed by Europol in concert with the Council of Europe. “We clearly need to consider coordinated, practical and proportionate actions at both national and international levels; ESSA has been calling for this for years”, said Khalid Ali, Secretary General of ESSA. “As the party at the sharp end of this, it is fundamental to the success of any proposals that the regulated betting sector is fully engaged in any sports betting integrity policy considerations and their delivery”.

• The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has confirmed that the Russian Wrestling Federation has imposed four-year bans on Daniil Egorov and Vitaly Yakubenya. The two wrestlers will be suspended from 8 June.

• Indian decathlete Jagtar Singh has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for meldonium, reports the Deccan Herald.

• The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced that Houston Astros pitcher David Paulino has been sanctioned with an 80-game suspension after testing positive for boldenone, in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The suspension starts immediately.