Sports Law

AFL player samples to be frozen in battle against doping

The AFL will become the first sporting code in Australia to test for human growth hormones and a new type of the drug EPO under a new deal announced with the Australian Sport Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA).

In other new anti-doping measures announced today, AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said the league would also conduct extensive blood testing and profiling and freeze samples obtained from players for a period of up to eight years.

Anderson said the new measu…  Find out more

CAS Applies the “Comfortable Satisfaction” Test to Uphold Olympic Speedskater Claudia Pechstein’s 2 Year Doping Ban

Five-time Olympic speedskating champion, Claudia Pechstein, has lost her appeal against a two-year ban for doping, based on blood passport values, and will miss the Vancouver Games.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, dismissed the German's appeal against a ban imposed by the International Skating Union (ISU). The ban runs until February 2011.

Pechstein has never failed a drug test and denied doping. However, the ISU said she returned blood …  Find out more

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