In its capacity as a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is responsible for the fight against doping in cycling. As a result, it is obliged to consider all available means for ensuring and enhancing protection for clean cyclists.
Montreal, 28 October 2019 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) can confirm it has received further responses from the Russian authorities to a list of detailed and technical questions, including follow-up questions, raised by WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations Department (I&I) and the independent forensic experts concerning the data that WADA I&I retrieved from the Moscow Laboratory in January 2019.
Montreal, 3 October 2019 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is pleased to announce that, over the past weeks, it has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with seven Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) regarding the development and implementation of dried-blood-spot (DBS) testing. The Agency is collaborating with ADOs around the world to further research the development and implementation of this exciting method for drug testing in sport.
Colorado Springs, Colo. (September 30, 2019) – USADA announced today that two independent three-member panels of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) rendered their decisions in the cases of Alberto Salazar and Dr. Jeffrey Brown, determining that each should receive a 4-year sanction for orchestrating and facilitating prohibited doping conduct while acting, respectively, as head coach of the Nike Oregon Project (NOP) and as a paid consultant for the NOP on performance enhancement and as physician for numerous athletes in the NOP.
USADA announced today that the karate-athlete Joane Orbon, has accepted a 9-month sanction. Orbin tested positive after using a contaminated supplement.
USADA announced today that it has withdrawn its charge that USA Track & Field athlete Christian Coleman committed a violation of the whereabouts rules after receiving guidance from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on the interpretation of the current International Standard for Testing and Investigations (ISTI) concerning the date on which a failure to update an athlete’s changed whereabouts information should be considered to have occurred.
Operation Aderlass (blood-letting) is a police investigation targeting a German doctor and his clients - professional athletes.
Re-analysis of samples from the London Summer Olympics in 2012 has found that Lithuanian athlete Jevgenij Shuklin, competing in the Men’s Canoe Sprint C-1 200m event in which he ranked 2nd and was awarded the silver medal, has been disqualified from the Olympic Games London 2012. Re-analysis of Shuklin’s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (oral turinabol).
The International Biathlon Union has decided to suspend Alexandr Pechenkin and Alexander Chernyshov for participating in an organised doping scheme.
The IWF Opens Disciplinary Proceedings against five Athletes on the basis of the Investigations into the Russian doping scheme