The Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage (AFLD) and the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent body mandated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to define and carry out the fight against doping in cycling, confirmed today that they will continue their close collaboration on anti-doping controls during the 2017 Tour De France, which begins on Saturday 1st July in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that Portuguese rider André Cardoso was notified of an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) of Erythropoietin in a sample collected in the scope of an out-of-competition control on 18 June 2017.
The IAAF is pleased to announce the appointment of Brett Clothier as the first Head of the independent Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
The Norwegian weightlifter Ruth Kasirye has been banned for two years after testing positive for Meldonium.
Ten athletes tested positive for Clostebol in 2016. That is three times as many as in 2015, and nearly twice as many as in 2013 when six athletes was banned for using the steroid.
The National Anti-Doping Agency of Germany organizes and conducts all doping controls during the World Table Tennis Championships in Düsseldorf, Germany.
When weightlifting coach Michael Gingras was banned for 12 years, he became part of the more than 200 sports persons who has been sanctioned with a ban longer than ten years.
61 athletes from Kenya has been banned for use of doping. 58 of these competed in the sport of athletics. Of these 26 were women.
A Canadian weightlifter was the latest athlete to be sanctioned after testing positive for clenbuterol. She claimed contaminated food was the reason for the positive test.
101 athletes have so far been registered in the Anti-Doping Database for failing to provide whereabout information. US athletes tops the statistics.