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Anti-doping and 'whereabouts' system discussed at Slovak Weightlifting Federation seminar

  • Weightlifting

A seminar which covered anti-doping and rule changes was staged by the Slovak Weightlifting Federation

Eastern European nation.The seminar was opened by Jan Stefanik, the President of the SWF, and an anti-doping

 The lecture covered recent changes in the IWF’s anti-doping programme, paying particular attention

information was given to the participants about the most important rules and the 'whereabouts' system – Anti-Doping


IMMAF threaten legal action against GAISF after recognition rejection

  • Mixed Martial Arts

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has threatened legal action against the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) after its application for recognition from the umbrella body was rejected earlier this year.

process was "neither transparent nor fair".The IMMAF is locked in a legal dispute with the World Anti-Doping

which has continued to reject the governing body's applications to became a signatory of the World Anti-Doping



PSG President charged with corruption over Doha bid for IAAF World Championships

  • Athletics

Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, one of the most powerful men in sport, has been charged with corruption over Doha's bid for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, according to a French judicial official.

Massata may go on trial in a separate matter, for allegedly obstructing sanctions against Russia for doping


UK Anti-Doping hands four-year bans to footballer and rugby union player

  • Football

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has suspended English football player Michael Phenix and Scottish rugby union player

Sean Goodfellow from all sport for a period of four years following Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs

FA) Social Drugs Policy.Phenix was charged with an ADRV pursuant to Regulation 3(a) of the FA’s Anti-Doping

Goodfellow, meanwhile, was charged with an ADRV pursuant to Article 21.2.3 of World Rugby’s Anti-Doping

player, Sean Goodfellow, has been suspended from all sport for a period of four years following an Anti-Doping

https://t.co/Tf1OjBMmi2 pic.twitter.com/ZPAMERisdt— UK Anti-Doping (@ukantidoping) May 22, 2019The Liverpool

inflammation of the lining of the digestive system.At the time of giving a urine sample, Phenix told the doping


Chinese double Olympic gold medallist set to become WADA vice-president after IOC Executive Board nomination

  • Olympics

short track speed skating gold medallist Yang Yang is set to become vice-president of the World Anti-Doping

role during its latest meeting here.Yang is set to be officially elected at the World Conference on Doping

replaces Norway's Linda Helleland, a vocal critic of the IOC and WADA in the fallout to the Russian doping

scandal and who has campaigned for widespread reform at the global anti-doping watchdog.It means that

 "Athletes at the forefront of the fight against doping in sport - that’s a good sign for the future

Athletes at the forefront of the fight against doping in sport - that’s a good sign for the future!




Athletics Federation of India anger over failure to report earlier failure as Asian 800m champion tests positive

  • Athletics

India’s Gomathi Marimuthu, surprise winner of the women’s 800 metres gold at last month’s Asian Athletics Championships in Doha, stands to lose her title after her sample taken there tested positive for a banned substance.

There is anger, though, within the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) that the National Anti-Doping

We have zero tolerance to doping, as far as we are concerned, she is immediately suspended provisionally



Olympic marathon silver medallist facing four-year ban after testing positive for EPO

  • Athletics

Bahrain's Olympic marathon silver medallist Eunice Kirwa has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO), it has been announced.

EPO.Sumgong had been initially issued a four-year ban but appealed the suspension where she lied on her doping

Both the gold and silver medallists in the women's marathon at Rio 2016 have now been implicated in doping


Kenyan athletics team manager at Rio 2016 banned for 10 years by IAAF Ethics Board

  • Athletics

Michael Rotich, Kenya's athletics team manager at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, has been banned from the sport for 10 years after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Board found him guilty of "dishonest and corrupt" conduct.

Ethics Board claimed the Kenyan official, a retired armed forces major, had "sought to undermine anti-doping

Times showed Rotich, sent home from Rio 2016 in disgrace, claiming he could provide advance notice of doping

from his roles within athletics in Kenya last year, had gone through with the subversion of the anti-doping

who remains subject to criminal proceedings in Kenya and was charged with alleged involvement in a doping


Former European champion rower among Russians banned as RUSADA announce series of suspensions

  • Rowing

Championships bronze medallist Alexander Kornilov has been banned for two years by the Russian Anti-Doping

Kornilov, winner of a European gold medal in the coxed four event in Poznań in 2006, was initially caught doping

Arbitration for Sport.RUSADA deputy director general Margarita Pakhnotskaya revealed there were 13 doping

Kornilov has been disqualified for being absent three times in locations, where doping control officers

In fact, he [Kornilov] wrapped up with his sports career, but maintained being present in the doping

This was an out-of-competition doping control and he received three flags within a short period of time



New drug-testing roadmap for cricket in India offers relief for ICC from threat of being declared non-compliant by WADA

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The Indian National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) is set to begin testing in Indian cricket later this year

prospect of the International Cricket Council (ICC) being declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping

outsourced is likely to be fewer than 100.The BCCI has in the past refused to allow the NADA to conduct anti-doping

Control for Cricket in India had been opposing allowing drug testing by the country's National Anti-Doping

backing of the BCCI, one of the sport’s chief powerbrokers.While the new proposals are regarded by anti-doping

taken off the table altogether, the NADA would need ultimately to be free to implement its own anti-doping