WADA HAS PUBLISHED LIST OF PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES AND METHODS FOR 2018 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published with effect from 01 October 2017 the List of Prohibited Substances and Methods 2018 (hereinafter referred to as “the List”); together with a summary of substantive changes and explanations for 2018. The List, which was approved by…
ATHLETE WARNING: HIGENAMINE IN SUPPLEMENTS Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (further than „ASADA“) on 8 August 2017, ASADA published an athlete warning on the banned substance Higenamine, following a spike in the number of detections. Since then, six more Australian athletes have tested positive for Higenamine, bringing the total number of positives for that substance to…
WADA PUBLISHES RUSADA ROADMAP TO CODE COMPLIANCE The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the Roadmap to Code Compliance, which outlines the reinstatement criteria that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) must fulfill before WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) would recommend, to WADA’s Foundation Board, that they be declared compliant again with the World Anti-Doping Code…
OVER 600 BLOOD SAMPLES TO BE COLLECTED PRIOR TO CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR ATHLETE BIOLOGICAL PASSPORT PROFILING; 600 URINE TESTS FOR DETECTION PURPOSES TO BE CONDUCTED 31 July 2017, Monaco and London: The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and UK Athletics (UKA) today announced their plans for a robust anti-doping programme at the 16th edition of the…
Slovakia’s Olympic 50 kilometres race walk gold medallist Matej Tóth has pulled out of next month’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in London because he revealed he is being investigated for allegations of doping. Matej Tóth was the first athlete from Slovakia to win an Olympic medal in athletics when he claimed…
MATEJ TÓTH IS NOT PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DIFFERENCES IN BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS Photo: Új Szó Olympic and world champion Matej Tóth does not participate in athletic championships in August because he is physically and mentally depleted and could not prepare properly. The athlete argued by the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) announcement that differences…
STATMENT OF MATEJ TÓTH ON THE NON-PARTICIPATION IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 IN LONDON Photo: TASR „The media and the sports community are delighted to announce that I will not definitely start at the August athletics World championships in London. The reason is psychological and physical exhaustion and resulting training failure. This condition has been caused…
POLISH ANTI-DOPING AGENCY AS NEW NADO GETTING STARTED ITS WORK On Wednesday, July 3, 2017, the Polish Anti-Doping Agency getting started its work. The Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA) has taken over all the responsibilities of the former Commission against doping in sport (created in 1993) led by Prof. Jerzy Kazimierz Smorawiński. POLADA as a national…
WADA PERMITS RUSADA TO PLAN AND COORDINATE TESTING UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS AND THE UK ANTI-DOPING AGENCY The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announces that the Agency and its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) permit the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) to plan and coordinate testing. RUSADA is authorized…
MARIJUANA LEADS IN SLOVAKIA The most used drug in the Slovak Republic is marijuana. As reported the European Drugs Report 2017 of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) [1] states in the mapping of the drug situation, almost every ninth of the country’s 15- to 34-year-old population experienced it…
