Lausanne, 4 March 2013 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal of the Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings against the decision of the Disciplinary Panel of the Jamaican Disciplinary Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) on 22 November 2011 which sanctioned him with a lifetime ineligibility following a second anti-doping rule violation.
In a statement from USADA, CEO of the Agency, Travis T. Tygart, applauds the action from U.S. Department of Justice.
Lifetime suspended athlete Lance Armstrong will not provide information to USADA regarding his doping regime as a professional cyclist.
US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has given Lance Armstrong two more weeks to meet with the organization.
The Danish professional cyclist Michael Rasmussen has confessed to Anti Doping Denmark and the NOC and Sports Confederation of Denmark about his extensive use of doping for many years, and a case will now be opened against the rider by the Doping Commission.
Cape Town – 24 January, 2013 – SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS) is in the process of doing retroactive testing for EPO (Erythropoietin) of all blood samples of over 50 top cyclists that competed in major mountain and road races during 2012 to establish whether EPO doping took place and if an EPO doing infrastructure exists in SA. Athletes testing positive will be charged and could face bans.
On January 18 former pro cyclist Lance Armstrong confessed he had been using performance enhancing substances during his career. The information he reveals do open up more questions when it comes to penalizing doping.
Both USADA and WADA has rejected to work with the UCI Independent Commission.
The UCI joins with the members of the Independent Commission in expressing regret that the World Anti-Doping Agency and the US Anti-Doping Agency have indicated that they will not cooperate with the Independent Commission established to investigate the allegations made against the UCI in the recent USADA reasoned decision on Lance Armstrong and the United States Postal Service (USPS) team.
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced today that they have modified their Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program to provide for unannounced, random blood testing for the detection of human growth hormone (hGH) during the regular season, beginning in 2013.