Colorado Springs, Colo. (December 9, 2019) – “To allow Russia to escape a complete ban is yet another devastating blow to clean athletes, the integrity of sport and the rule of law. And, in turn, the reaction by all those who value sport should be nothing short of a revolt against this broken system to force reform.
9 December 2019: Today the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has robbed athletes worldwide of their right to clean sport due to their inability to enforce the strongest possible sanctions on Russia. Strong sanctions which would include a complete ban of Russia and Russian athletes at all international competitions including the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In the Anti-Doping Database has registered more than 1000 Russian athletes in the database.
Executive Committee (ExCo) of WADA declared RUSADA to be declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) for a period of four years.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) condemns in the strongest terms the actions of those responsible for the manipulation of the Moscow Laboratory data before it was transferred to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in January 2019.
Cooperation between authorities across countries has led to Danish Jacob Sporon-Fiedler on 14 November being sentenced to five years and four months imprisonment for smuggling doping substances into the UK in a case known as the world's largest.
The international network of anti-doping organizations that powers Global DRO has welcomed Drug-Free Sport New Zealand as the latest licensee of the free platform, which allows all athletes to easily search the status of ingredients prohibited under the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List at any time.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered the appeals filed by Mr. Alberto Salazar and Dr. Jeffrey Brown against the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
IOC President announces USD 10 million action plan and calls for tougher sanctions against entourage members to strengthen protection of clean athletes
Katowice, 6 November 2019 – Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) World Conference on Doping in Sport – being held from 5-7 November in Katowice, Poland – primarily focused on the International Standards of the global anti-doping program, which will be put before WADA’s Executive Committee tomorrow for approval. A Conference session was devoted to each Standard with experts on hand to explain some of the technicalities of each and the positive impact that they will have on clean sport.