Sports Law
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In Cielo & ors v CBDA (the Brazilian National Swimming Federation), the Court of Arbitration for Sport was again considering the penalty to be applied in relation to athletes who registered positive anti-doping test results, where the cause was found to be an inadvertent ingesting of prohibited substances, from taking of contaminated supplements.
4 Brazilian swimmers had positive test results for Furosemide (a diuretic, on the prohibited list as a masking agent) at a Brazilian nat… Find out more
In Wen Tong v. International Judo Federation the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by Wen Tong, a Chinese judoka and winner of the 78kg gold medal in judo at the Beijing Olympics, relating to a postive test for clenbuterol in July 2009, on the grounds that the process was flawed. The test occurred on 8 September 2009, following a gold medal win in the IJF World Championship in Rotterdam in August 2009. The International Judo Federation (IJF) was informed of the result on 14 Sept… Find out more
In Oliviera v USADA, the Court of Arbitration for Sport considered the cases surrounding reduction of the 2 year penalty where a cyclist was the subject of a positive test, due to a contaminated supplement. In the circumstances of the efforts taken by the cyclist to determine that the supplement contained no prohibited substances, and her elite but reasonably inexperienced status as a cyclist, with little formal training in relation to prohibited substances, and her early acceptance of a prov… Find out more