Sha’carri Richardson suspension aftermath smoke still lingering on with the latest reply of president of WADA Witold Banka to the US congress woman Ocasio-Cortez and congress man Raskin. The duo has written earlier to the WADA on why they will ban Sha’carri Richardson for Marijuana a non performance enhancing substance. In the reply, Banka said […]
Russian Olympic silver medalist, five time super-heavyweight World Champion and eight time European Weightlifting Champion, Tatiana Kashirina, has been suspended because of evidence taken from the Moscow Laboratory during an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Kashirina, who will be 30 next month, was a gold-medal prospect in the women’s super-heavyweights at Tokyo 2020. […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has slammed a two-week suspension given to National Football League (NFL) player Luke Gifford after he tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance, claiming the sanction “brings into sharp focus the anti-doping problems that exist in the United States”. A WADA spokesman said the ban given to Gifford, who plays for the […]
A bill known as the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, named after Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov was passed by the US Senate; a bill that will allow US officials to prosecute anyone involved in doping at international sporting events. It’s set to be signed into law by President Donald Trump. US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) chief Travis Tygart […]
An investigation into weightlifting which was launched by WADA’s intelligence and investigations (I&I) department in August 2017; the investigation has now yielded results with discovering evidence of “doppelgangers” impersonating athletes. Eighteen weightlifters from six countries are suspected of providing manipulated urine samples after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probe discovered evidence of “doppelgangers” impersonating athletes. […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Witold Bańka has revealed on the Twitter over his deep concern on Nasser clearance that WADA would analyse the case and appeal if needed. “As it relates to Salwa Eid Naser and the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal decision on her case I am concerned,” said Bańka. “WADA will analyse it […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has demanded action from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) over 130 doping samples “hidden” during the tenure of its disgraced former president Tamás Aján. Evidence of the 130 untested samples was found by the McLaren team but not announced when the report was published, apparently because there had been insufficient […]
By next year the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will implement a new code, the first change in six years. Among the measures that have been announced include a reduction in sanctions for “substances of abuse”, illegal drugs that do not have a performance-enhancing effect. Under the new code, which is to be implemented in the […]
The controversial Spanish cyclist, Ibai Salas Zorrozua has been confirmed ban for four years by the Court Of Arbitration (CAS) on Tuesday 4. The 29 years cyclist was initially suspended for Athletes Biological Passport (ABP) abnomalities in 2018 but local Spain court of sport set aside the suspension which now made World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) […]
In a very unusual and unprecedented manner, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has threatened to withdraw its funding of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) unless the three outlined area are look into. It outlines three areas that should be monitored in respect of whether funding is reduced or withdrawed, with […]
The current 100m World Champion, Christian Coleman who was provincially suspended by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) yesterday has accused WADA of setting a trap to get him to miss a test in a lengthy statement on Twitter. “I was more than ready and available for testing if I had received a phone call,” adding he […]
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka has declared that the organisation was “appalled” by the findings of McLaren’s team. The McLaren report revealed that doping positives had been covered up, athletes who should have been banned won medals at world and continental levels, and suspensions were deliberately delayed by Aján’s “meddling” and interference in […]
In what looks like a pot calling a keg black when a Russian sponsored website made a scathing attack on Kenya and also tried to make them the black sheep of the athletics family. The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has now issued a response to that allegation which depicted Kenya as “the main supplier […]
The president of Russian Olympics Commitee Stanislav Pozdynakov has described the World Anti-Doping Agency as simultaneously acting as “investigator, prosecutor and publisher” against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). Pozdynakov accused WADA of attempting to punish RUSADA in connection with the Russian doping case, as reported by TASS. “In a steady flow of attempts to punish RUSADA, […]
The world Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has ruled that Therapeutic Use Exception (TUE) does not give any advertage to win a medal in any international competition. In a new study conducted by WADA’s medical director Dr Alan Vernec, and WADA’s TUE Manager, David Healy, examined the number of athletes with TUEs at the five summer and […]
A global Athlete, a body representing all the global athletes have called on World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for appeal over 4 years suspension of British hammer thrower, Mark Dry. Dry was provisionally suspended by the UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) a year ago, receiving a charge of “tampering or attempted tampering […]
Despite sports shut down with little or no testing going on, World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka is still cry for more fund by soliciting for extra funding by trying to persuade government in the fight against drug cheats. Drug testing around the world has nearly ground to a halt due to lockdown restrictions, leaving […]
Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA said on Wednesday it would progressively resume testing later this month hiatus after having imposed a hiatus in response to government measures aimed at curbing the spread of the new coronavirus. Speaking at an online news conference, Yuri Ganus, the agency’s director general, said RUSADA had elaborated a plan to resume […]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that its Intelligence and Investigations Team (I&I) has completed its examination of 298 Russian athletes targeted through an ongoing Operation LIMS probe. Detailed case packages have now been provided to 28 Anti-Doping Organisations (ADOs), which comprises 27 International Federations and one Major Event Organisation. WADA’s I&I has been […]
Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Tuesday issued a charge against former Champion of both London and Amsterdam marathon Daniel Kinyua Wanjiru. The AIU has provisionally suspended marathon specialist Daniel Kinyua Wanjiru of Kenya with immediate effect for an Athlete Biological Passport violation under the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules,” AIU posted on Twitter. The fundamental principle […]
Russia’s four-year doping ban should be thrown out by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to prevent further damage to the Olympic Movement amid the coronavirus crisis, the country’s Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has claimed. Matytsin said the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the CAS judges should “turn a new […]
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