Athletes testing positive for recreational drugs out-of-competition will be banned by the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) for 1-3 months ...
REUTERS: Athletes testing positive for recreational drugs out-of-competition will be banned by the World Anti-Doping Authority for 1-3 months instead of two years when the policy is changed next year, officials said on Thursday .
"If the athlete can establish that any ingestion or use occurred out of competition and was unrelated to sport performance, then the period of ineligibility shall be three months," WADA's new code says. WADA approved a revision of the World Anti-Doping Code in November 2019 after a two-year consultation process.WADA will also introduce a new Anti-Doping Rule Violation to ensure whistleblowers who share information on doping in sport are protected. Discouraging an individual to come forward or retaliation will count as an offence.
Last month, former marathon world record holder Kenyan Wilson Kipsang was handed a four-year ban for ADRVs that included using a fake photo of a traffic accident to justify one of four missed whereabouts appointments.
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