U.S. Track & Field Para Athlete, Peter Park, Accepts Sanction for ADRV
USADA announced today that Peter Park, of Champaign, Ill., an athlete in the sport of para track and field, has accepted a 21-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Park, 39, declared the...
View ArticleMeat warning for Mexico 2017 competitors
• Contaminated meat could lead to positive doping tests at World Championships. World Para Powerlifting and World Para Swimming have warned athletes competing at the World Championships in Mexico City,...
View ArticleRussian athletes to compete as neutrals in qualification events for...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board has decided to maintain the suspension of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), with a further review due in November 2017 following the...
View ArticleVISTA 2017
The conference will be held between 20-23 September, the eighth VISTA conference is organised through a partnership between the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Canadian Paralympic...
View ArticleRussia offers financial rewards to Pyeongchang medalists & coaches
The Russian government has published an order that will establish financial rewards for medalists and their coaches at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The order, which was...
View ArticleSports Integrity Briefs – 20 September 2017
• A File on 4 investigation by BBC Radio 4 has found that certain paralympic athletes are abusing the classification system in order to improve their chances of winning a medal. The BBC reports that...
View ArticleSwedish shooter serves one-month long anti-doping suspension
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that Swedish shooting Para sport athlete Philip Jonsson has served a one-month long suspension for committing an anti-doping rule violation in...
View ArticleParalympic classification system allegedly open to abuse
Evidence given to a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee hearing at the UK Parliament has alleged that para athletes are deliberately exaggerating their disabilities in order to cheat the...
View ArticleAdditional evidence gives opposing views of IPC Classification cheating
Two additional pieces of written evidence given as part of a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee’s investigation give opposing views as to whether the International Paralympic...
View ArticlePhysiotherapist raised concerns over Wafula-Strike classification
Patricia Acton, a physiotherapist who worked with the British Paralympic squad, has said that she ‘raised concerns’ over the classification of Anne Wafula-Strike in evidence submitted to the Digital,...
View ArticleIPC maintains RPC suspension
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced on Wednesday (20 December) that it is maintaining the suspension of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) and will make a final decision on...
View ArticleUSADA issues public warnings to two athletes over TUE failures
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has issued public warnings to two athletes who failed to obtain Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) for use of medication that contains substances that are prohibited in...
View ArticleParalympic Alpine Skier Staci Mannella Accepts Finding of No Fault
USADA announced today that Staci Mannella, of Randolph, N.J., an athlete in the sport of Paralympic alpine skiing, has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been...
View ArticleIPC completes Vancouver 2010 re-analysis programme
Ahead of PyeongChang 2018, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has completed a re-analysis programme of athlete anti-doping urine samples from the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games and...
View ArticleBrazilian guide runner given backdated suspension for ADRV
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that Brazilian guide runner Felipe Veloso da Silva has received a backdated three month suspension for an Anti-Doping Violation committed in...
View ArticleArgentinian judoka disqualified for Anti-Doping Violation
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that Argentinian judoka Jorge Lencina has been disqualified from the men’s judo -90kg and provisionally suspended for an Anti-Doping Rule...
View ArticleAfghani field athlete suspended for four years for ADRV
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the Afghani field athlete Mohammad Naiem Durani has been suspended for four years for an Anti-Doping Violation committed at the Rio 2016...
View ArticleSports Integrity Briefs – 27 October 2016
• Richard McLaren has announced that in early December, he expects to release part two of his Independent Person (IP) Report into allegations, made in May by Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov (pictured), that the...
View ArticleThe IPC informs the Russian Paralympic Committee of reinstatement criteria
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Monday (21 November) informed the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) of the reinstatement criteria it must meet in order to have its IPC membership...
View ArticleSports Integrity Briefs – 22 November 2016
• Faf du Plessis has been sanctioned for ball tampering by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which reviewed TV footage that appeared to show the South African captain using saliva to shine the...
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