• The Sports Tribunal of New Zealand has suspended a 16 year old athlete for four months, after he took a drink from a teammate’s bottle which resulted in a positive test for 1,4 dimethylpentylamine, a stimulant that features on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Prohibited List. The athlete later learned that the drink was called KICK pre-work out, which the Sports Tribunal accepted was the cause of his positive test.

• Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) has disqualified handball player Giorgio Fiori for seven months and disqualified his results, after he returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for an unnamed specified substance. His suspension will expire on 20 October 2018. NADO Italia also announced that masters cyclist Fabio Oliveri has been provisionally suspended after returning an AAF for fenoterol on 29 April at the ‘Langhe e Roero Bra Bra Specialized 2018’ road race.

• FIFPro, supported by the captains of France, Denmark and Australia, has written to the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) asking that Paolo Guerrero be allowed to participate in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. On 14 May, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) partially upheld an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), increasing the Peru captain’s suspension from six months to 14 months, despite finding that his AAF was caused by tea he had consumed. The extension of the ban would mean that Guerrero would miss the World Cup.

UPDATE: @FIFPro has written to @FIFAcom requesting that Peru captain Paolo Guerrero be allowed to participate in the @FIFAWorldCup. We are hoping for a breakthrough in the next 24-48 hours. ?? pic.twitter.com/nq5269UquD

— FIFPro (@FIFPro) May 20, 2018

• The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has placed an ‘exclusion order’ on Michael Brennan, despite the fact that he is not bound by the Rules of Racing, due to his failure to cooperate with an investigation into the use of inside information on the betting market. Brennan’s brother, Timothy, is a veterinary surgeon and has been charged by the BHA with ‘Communicating directly or indirectly to Michael Brennan, during the relevant period, inside information, relating to the prospects of FAUGHEEN (IRE) in the 2016 Cheltenham Champion Hurdle, obtained in his capacity as a Veterinary Surgeon to FAUGHEEN (IRE) which was not publicly available or authorised for such disclosure by the Rules of Racing knowing or suspecting that such information would or might be used to gain an unfair advantage in the betting market intending to make a gain for himself or another and/or to cause loss to another’. A hearing will take place on 16 and 17 July.