• A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing into misconduct allegations against former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman is set to continue until at least May this year, the MPTS schedule reveals. On Monday this week, the General Medical Council (GMC) summed up its case against the doctor by concluding that he had ordered testogel from Fit4Sport in order to dope a cyclist. The MPTS hearing has been adjourned until 6 February, when a half day hearing will take place. On 12 February, the MPTS will hear closing submissions from Dr. Freeman’s legal team.

• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued a temporary stay on a five year ban issued to Ahmad Ahmad, President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA Vice President. FIFA sanctioned Ahmad with a five year ban in November last year which Ahmad appealed, and the CAS agreed that imposition of the ban without hearing Ahmad’s appeal would unfairly harm his prospects in the forthcoming CAF elections on 12 March. The CAS will hear Ahmad’s appeal on 2/3 March and will render a Decision before 12 March. FIFA sanctioned Ahmad for ‘various CAF-related governance issues, including the organisation and financing of an Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca, his involvement in CAF’s dealings with the sports equipment company Tactical Steel and other activities’. This followed a joint FIFA/CAF investigation into Ahmad’s 2017-19 CAF Presidential term.

• Russian tennis players Sofia Dmitrieva and Alija Merdeeva have been sanctioned with lifetime bans for match-fixing, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced. Dmitrieva was involved in six match-fixing incidents and Meerdeeva three. Two of the matches involved both players as doubles partners.

• Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dilhara Lokuhettige has been found guilty of three breaches of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Anti-Corruption Code (ACC) related to match-fixing, the ICC announced on Thursday. Lokuhettige was initially charged under the Emirates Cricket Board’s (ECB) ACC in 2018; and was charged under the ICC’s ACC in 2019. A redacted Decision is available here. Earlier this week in an unrelated case, United Arab Emirates (UAE) players Mohammad Naveed and Shaiman Anwar Butt were found guilty of two match-fixing related offences (the redacted Decision is here). The ICC said that sanctions for the three players would be announced at a later date.

• Raquel Pennington has received a backdated six month ban, after discovering substances she was prescribed to treat a medical condition were prohibited. Pennington reported her use of 7-keto-DHEA and AOD-9064 to the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) and the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), and a subsequent urine test returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for both substances. Her sanction will expire on 17 June this year.