• FIFA to test referees for banned drugs
    25th May 2012

    BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -FIFA says referees could soon undergo testing for banned performance enhancing drugs.


    FIFA's chief medical officer Jiri Dvorake says referees are part of the game and should be treated like players.


    Dvorak tells FIFA's medical conference there is no indication of a doping problem among referees "but it's something we have to consider.

  • RADO DCO training in partnership with CONFEJES
    24th May 2012

    Twenty doping control officers (DCOs) in Africa received training recently thanks to an agreement between WADA and the Conference of Youth and Sports Ministers of Countries using French as a Common Language (CONFEJES).

    Forming part of the Regional Anti-Doping Organizations (RADO) activities in Africa, WADA hosted DCO training workshops in Tunisia and Cameroon as part of the CONFEJES agreement signed in 2009 to assist African French-speaking countries with anti-doping initiatives.

  • Olympics-Bulgarian sprinter Eftimova banned for two years
    23rd May 2012

    Bulgarian sprinter Inna Eftimova, who was preparing for the London Olympics, has been banned for two years for doping, the Bulgarian athletics federation said on Tuesday.

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