Doping Cases and Bans 2018 Thread

[bestmen 2,922]

fency bears are attacking Sweden with proofs  some violation in pyongchang

[heywoodu 16,459]

2 hours ago, bestmen said:

fency bears are attacking Sweden with proofs  some violation in pyongchang

What a vague bit of stuff. 

[bestmen 2,922]

Just now, heywoodu said:

What a vague bit of stuff. 

 

[phelps 8,687]

Major League Baseball hits the (bad) news once again...

 

Robinson Cano, star player of the Seattle Mariners, gets an 80-game suspension (half a season, the max punishment they can give him for this kind of infraction) for violating the PED (Performance Enhancing Drugs, aka Doping) policy of the MLB...

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/robinson-cano-suspended-80-games/c-276822884

Edited May 17, 2018 by phelps

[heywoodu 16,459]

17 minutes ago, phelps said:

Major League Baseball hits the (bad) news once again...

 

Robinson Cano, star player of the Seattle Mariners, gets an 80-game suspension (half a season, the max punishment they can give him for this kind of infraction) for violating the PED (Performance Enhancing Drugs, aka Doping) policy of the MLB...

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/robinson-cano-suspended-80-games/c-276822884

Too bad he gets such a short suspension, but on the bright side, he will miss almost 12 million dollars in salary  

[Dunadan 1,103]

French tennis player Alize Cornet has had a charge for missing three drug tests in a 12-month period dismissed by an independent tribunal after reporting the buzzer to her apartment was broken : https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065113/cornet-avoids-sanction-after-charge-for-missing-three-drugs-tests-dismissed-by-tribunal

 

A decision from the International Skating Union (ISU) to clear double Olympic short track medallist Yara van Kerkhof despite abnormal blood values in her biological passport has been appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065136/wada-to-appeal-isu-decision-to-clear-van-kerkhof-following-abnormal-blood-values-in-biological-passport

[heywoodu 16,459]

23 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

French tennis player Alize Cornet has had a charge for missing three drug tests in a 12-month period dismissed by an independent tribunal after reporting the buzzer to her apartment was broken : https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065113/cornet-avoids-sanction-after-charge-for-missing-three-drugs-tests-dismissed-by-tribunal

[heywoodu 16,459]

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She also pointed out she had never tested positive in over 100 tests during her career.

Ah, also known as the Lance Armstrong Defense.

[Dragon 2,066]

WADA maintain RUSADA suspension after no progress made

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065154/wada-maintain-rusada-suspension-after-no-progress-made

[Bearas 628]

Following story of Lithuanian Police investigating doping in Lithuanian Weightlifting Federation, Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency provided information that some of doping might had been supplied from Lithuanian Cycling Federation associates.

Yesterday Criminal Centre of Klaipėda District pressed charged on two cycling coaches for possessing doping substances and supplying it to others. Antanas Jakimavičius and Solveiga Baleišytė - both are now in jail. Both of them was working with national team members of Track Cycling. (although both stripped from their coaching licenses at the moment) training Olivija Baleišytė (World Junior Record holder and daughter of Solveiga), Kristina Kazlauskaitė, Lithuanian Junior Girls National team.

Lithuanian Cycling Federation announced that they are working closely with WADA and cyclists who worked with these coaches had to do doping test and are under the radar during investigation.

Lithuanian Olympic Committee condemned recent situation and expressed their support for investigations.

Article with video of substances are here: https://www.15min.lt/sportas/naujiena/kita/dviraciu-dopingo-skandalas-ant-ko-krinta-seselis-26-973156 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Bearas