Upul Tharanga will appear at an International Cricket Council (ICC) hearing to answer doping charges.

The Sri Lanka opener tested positive for a banned drug after Sri Lanka’s World Cup semi-final against New Zealand in March.

From Bangkokpost.com:

Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Nishantha Ranatunga said Tharanga’s case was fixed for June 24 and local media reported that the 26-year-old had already hired a lawyer to defend him at the hearing.

The batsman has claimed he was given a steroid by a high-profile Colombo-based faith healer, who also treats other international players, for an asthma-related problem.

Ranatunga meanwhile said the Sri Lankan authorities would continue to educate players on medications that are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

Tharanga will face the panel at the ICC headquarters in Dubai.

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Sacked Ukaranian coach Yuri Ogorodnik on Saturday claimed innocence in the present doping scandal which hit Indian athletics.

Ogorodnik said he never gave any anabolic steroid to his wards.

From Zeenews.india.com:

He said he bought food supplements in a sealed envelope and did not know how it got contaminated, while stressing that it was not his mistake. “I have been giving these supplements for the past 10 years,” he added.

Six quarter-milers — Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji, Mandeep Kaur, Juana Murmu, Tiana Mary Thomas and Priyanka Pawar – who were being coached by Yuri tested positive for methandienone.

“I am a professional coach and I don’t give dope,” he said. “How can I give steroids to girls who are on WADA list? Girls believe in me and I believe them,” he told reporters in Patiala on Saturday.

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Alberto Contador of Spain won back affection of fans despite losing his invincibility on grand Tours.

The cyclist was previously booed by fans at the start of the Tour de France.

From Reuters.com:

Contador’s immediate future is under a cloud though with the looming doping hearing.

He failed a test for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol last July but he was cleared by the Spanish federation, only for the International Cycling Union (UCI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to appeal before CAS.

The hearing is set for August 1-3, with a final decision expected before the end of next month.

“As far as my future is concerned, all I want is a good rest,” he said.

“All in all I had a great season. People focus on the Tour de France but we have to take into account the rest of the season,” he said. “I’m delighted with my season.”

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is keeping a close eye on things as India trains doping control officers (DCOs) to keep the games free from doping.

The Delhi laboratory, accredited by WADA, has worked successfully through several curtain-raisers, including the Commonwealth Shooting Championship, the Hockey World Cup, and the Commonwealth Boxing Championships.

From NZherald.co.nz:

“I have no problem with the lab. It has been meeting regular testing programmes from the samples sent back to us. If there was a slip in scientific standards, we’d be on to it like a robber’s dog.

“The issue is for the lab to retain its accreditation beyond the Games as one of only 35 labs in the world capable of doing [WADA quality] testing.

They have to analyse 3000 samples a year to do that. One starting point is cricket’s Indian Premier League.”

Howman says WADA still feels obliged to guide India in running a full-time programme.

“The Commonwealth Games Federation [CGF] is training its own DCOs but the ideal is that they use Indians. Those people then need to be kept on after the Games.”

Drug Free Sport New Zealand boss Graeme Steel said India is vital experienced and well-trained officials are on the job, much like bringing in top-match officials or referees.

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Greater grasp of time management for a selection of elite athletes of New Zealand will be required to execute a controversial new process governing drug testing.

Drug Free Sport NZ has been asked by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to ensure sportsmen included in their registration pool for testing can be found at a precise time of day, 365 days of the year.

From NZherald.co.nz:

The measure is intended to guarantee athletes realise the threat of random testing is ever-present, though Drug Free Sport NZ’s chief executive Graeme Steel doubts its effectiveness.

He also described the initiative as a logistical nightmare and one likely to jeopardise his organisation’s relationship with sportspeople.

Under the Wada protocol, athletes will be required to provide a one- hour window where they are guaranteed to be at a designated place each day of the year.

New Zealand’s Beijing-bound Olympic team will experience a watered down version of the restriction from Sunday, the date all team members must notify their whereabouts to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the duration of the Games, which start in Beijing on August 8.

“It’s going to be a challenge for them and us, and a challenge to our relationship with the athletes,” Steel said of next year’s policy.

Drug Free Sport NZ’s chief executive had lobbied successfully for limiting the size of New Zealand’s registration pool.

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The World Anti-doping Association (WADA) may be facing Micro-dosing, testosterone patches, and sample manipulation but it is confident that it is getting better at catching the cheats.

Director-general David Howman said asking for totally clean sport was like asking for journalism without plagiarism and there will always be those who look for unfair advantages.

From NZherald.co.nz:

“In some parts of the Commonwealth, there are areas where not enough information is given to athletes, there’s not enough education given to the coaches, the trainers and the doctors or anyone else in the athlete entourage.”

The build-up to these Games has not been without drugs controversy. New Zealand cyclist Adam Stewart was removed from the team after he was found to have imported performance-enhancing drugs.

On a larger scale, 12 members of the Indian weightlifting team tested positive for the banned substance, methylhexaneamine, or MHA. Some remain in the Games team. Their cases are pending and if found guilty, the athletes could lose their medals if they finish in the top three.

Howman was at pains to emphasise that Wada is not a testing agency. It is there to monitor the testing procedures and make sure any positive cases are dealt with according to the rules. It can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne if it is not happy with the sanctions.

The director general also said that until we made it less attractive for those who are not athletes to be in the drugs trade, the dark side of the sport will have an allure.

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The triple world record holder, Usain Bolt, who won the 100m in 9.91sec in the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, recently said he was shocked to learn that five Jamaican athletes failed to clear a test for banned substances.

Bolt said that the failed drug tests are backward steps for the sport.

From Guardian.co.uk:

A spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) said they could not get involved yet, although Jamaica’s prime minister Bruce Golding has called an emergency meeting to address the situation. “Announcements relating to doping controls fall under the responsibilities of the organization in charge of results management of the relevant case.”

The most recent Jamaican athlete to have tested positive was Julien Dunkley, who was dropped from the Olympic team after Boldenone was found in a sample taken at the national trials in 2008. He is serving a two-year ban. Others to have tested positive for performance enhancing drugs include the sprinters Merlene Ottey and Patrick Jarrett. Jarrett was suspended for two years, but Ottey escaped a ban as her ‘B’ sample was returned negative. Earlier this month Bolt lamented that Jamaica did not have the finances to implement a world-class drugs testing regime. “I get tested a lot but we just do not get the facilities in Jamaica to do so much testing like in big countries such as the US,” he said.

It is speculated that two of the five accused athletes belong to the Racers Track Club, the same club as Bolt, and are coached by Glen Mills.

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Usain Bolt expressed his shock at the news that five Jamaican athletes have been tested positive for banned substances and termed the incident as a backward step for the sport.

Though the involved athletes have not been named but it is believed that at least two belong to the Racers Track Club, the same club as Bolt, and are coached by Glen Mills.

From Guardian.co.uk:

A spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) said they could not get involved yet, although Jamaica’s prime minister Bruce Golding has called an emergency meeting to address the situation. “Announcements relating to doping controls fall under the responsibilities of the organization in charge of results management of the relevant case.”

The most recent Jamaican athlete to have tested positive was Julien Dunkley, who was dropped from the Olympic team after Boldenone was found in a sample taken at the national trials in 2008. He is serving a two-year ban. Others to have tested positive for performance enhancing drugs include the sprinters Merlene Ottey and Patrick Jarrett. Jarrett was suspended for two years, but Ottey escaped a ban as her ‘B’ sample was returned negative.Earlier this month Bolt lamented that Jamaica did not have the finances to implement a world-class drugs testing regime. “I get tested a lot but we just do not get the facilities in Jamaica to do so much testing like in big countries such as the US,” he said.

The triple world record holder, who won the 100m in 9.91sec in the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, said that it is disturbing to know that there are still drugs in the sport.

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FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have entered into new drug testing procedures for footballers playing at the highest level.

The new anti-doping rules by the football governing body come into force as a pilot project initiated after FIFA objected to players being held to the toughest standards of the new WADA code.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Fifa proposed the targeted testing program to Wada after arguing that team sports like football, where training and playing locations are more predictable, should not be treated like individual sports such as athletics and cycling, where competitors’ plans change at short notice.

It also argued that footballers were entitled to their individual privacy during out-of-season holiday times. Individual testing and whereabouts requirements for players was “inefficient and ineffective,” Fifa said on Tuesday. “Random team testing of elite teams at any time has more of a deterrent effect.” Fifa has also created a specialised anti-doping unit of medical and legal advisers and anti-doping administrators to operate the pilot scheme this year.

It will work with Wada and liaise with national anti-doping organizations and other sports federations. More than 28,000 doping controls were carried out in football in 2007 with 93 samples testing positive. Around 60% of those positives were for recreational drugs and 12 involved anabolic steroids.

The doping tests will be targeted at football players classed in three high-risk categories: players with Champions League clubs, international players, and those sidelined for long periods through injury or suspension.

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Finasteride, the popular hair-loss drug, has been taken off from the banned list of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA); the drug was also used as a masking agent for other banned substances.

Since the drug can now be easily detected if used to mask banned substances, the WADA decided to take it off since Finasteride is primarily used for slowing the process of hair loss.

From Foxsports.com.au:

WADA’s chief of medical research, Olivier Rabin, said at the time “science did not allow laboratories to reliably circumvent the masking properties of finasteride and other alpha reductase inhibitors.”

He added: “The masking effect of alpha reductase inhibitors remains. However following recent advances in anti-doping science, anti-doping laboratories have now been able to render it ineffective through close consideration of steroid profiles.

“As a result WADA agreed that this class of substances can now be removed from the list starting on January 1, 2009.”

In the past four years around a dozen athletes have tested positive for finasteride, neither of whom possessed a Therapeutic Use Exemption from the medical authorities that would have allowed them to escape sanctions.

Romario, the Brazilian footballer, was banned in 2007 for a period of 120 days though he said that the drug was used for preventing hair loss.

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