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US athletics coach Alberto Salazar's four-year doping ban upheld by CAS
•Alberto Salazar received no relief from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which upheld his four-year ban for a series of doping-related violations that had long been pursued by American regulators.
Mauritius badminton player Kate Foo Kune banned for two years in doping case
•Foo Kune was the flag bearer for Mauritius at the opening ceremony for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Tour de France 2020: Two people in custody as probe opened into suspected doping by Arkea-Samsic team
•Reportedly, a search was conducted on riders from the Arkea-Samsic team, including Dayer Quintana, brother and teammate of Nairo Quintana, and members of the medical team.
'I want to live': Forced into hiding, Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov still lives in fear
•Exposing Russia’s state-sponsorship doping scheme forced Grigory Rodchenkov into hiding in the United States five years ago.
NADA asks sports ministry for list of centres resuming activities, says it won't send COVID-19 medical workers to collect samples
•NADA is gearing up for vigorous resumption of sample collection and testing after the home ministry allowed sports complexes and stadia to open but without spectators.
Sumit Sangwan's doping ban lifted, NADA panel rules intake of banned substance unintentional
•The one-year doping ban on former Asian silver-medallist boxer Sumit Sangwan was lifted after he proved that his intake of a banned substance was unintentional
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Colombia face potential weightlifting ban after positive tests for banned steroid boldenone
•Colombia’s weightlifters could be banned from this year’s Tokyo Olympics after three of their athletes failed doping tests and were provisionally suspended for a year, the Colombian Weightlifting Federation said
NADA bans javelin thrower Amit Dahiya for four years for sending proxy to furnish dope sample
•Haryana's Amit Dahiya has been banned for four years for evading dope sample collection by sending a proxy during the National Javelin Throw Open Championships last year
Wimbledon, US Open champion Robert Farah free to resume playing despite doping breach
•Colombia’s Wimbledon and U.S. Open doubles champion Robert Farah has escaped a ban despite being found in breach of tennis’s Anti-Doping Programme
Olympic weightlifting champion Oleksiy Torokhtiy stripped of 2012 gold medal due to doping ban
•Torokhtiy gets a two-year ban backdated to start from December 2018, when the International Weightlifting Federation first announced he was under suspicion and placed him on provisional suspension.