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Boletín De Noticias De Dopaje 19/10/2016 Bangkok Post Diack advisor Cisse in French custody 19 Oct 2016 at 00:45 216 viewed0 comments AFP PARIS - Habib Cisse, the former legal advisor to disgraced former world athletics head Lamine Diack, has been placed in custody as part of the French investigation into corruption linked to state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes, sources said Tuesday. Lamine Diack headed the IAAF from 1999-2015, but found himself at the centre of a maelstrom that blew track and field's governing body apart Cisse, 41, was put under investigation in November 2015 for corruption along with Diack and Gabriel Dolle, former anti-doping doctor for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Cisse's lawyers, Louis-Marie de Roux and Cedric Labrousse, told AFP the decision was "unbelievable and unjustified" and immediately appealed it. Eliane Houlette, head of France's financial prosecution department, said in January that all three men had admitted covering up positive Russian drug tests. They "admitted that after 2011 the treatment of athlete biological passports for 23 Russian athletes were carried out in an abnormal way -- without the Russian athletics federation or the international federation carrying out sanctions or suspensions". They gave the excuse that they did not want "a big scandal" before the 2012 London Olympics that could influence talks with a sponsor and over television rights. Diack headed the IAAF from 1999-2015, but found himself at the centre of a maelstrom that blew track and field's governing body apart. French police charged Diack with corruption on suspicion the 83-year-old Senegalese accepted bribes to cover up doping cases in Russia. He was also charged with money laundering and conspiracy. Cisse, a lawyer by profession, is thought to have played a key role in the scandal. He was named at the end of 2011 as the IAAF's pointman for tracking Russian athletes' biological passports, and drew up a 23-strong list of suspected doping cheat in Russia. Cisse then travelled several times to Moscow and investigators suspect him of having been sent by Diack to find a financial arrangement with the Russian athletics federation. "I've never been aware of a corruption pact," Cisse said on November 3 last year in the office of the investigating judges, according to one source. Following bombshell revelations of state-sponsored doping in Russia, the country was hit hard for the Rio Olympics. All 68 track and field athletes bar one (long jumper Darya Klishina who is based in the United States) were barred from competing, while the entire Russian team were blackballed for the Paralympic Games. Current IAAF president Sebastian Coe has insisted there is no deadline for Russia's return to international competition, with many athletes wondering whether the country will be at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/sports/1113537/diack-advisor-cisse-in-french- custody ESPN Trevor Graham's suit against USADA tossed by federal judge 5:09 AM CEST Associated Press A federal judge has dismissed track coach Trevor Graham's lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying Graham failed to submit more than "unadorned, the defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusations." The USADA imposed a lifetime coaching ban on Graham in 2008 for his role in helping athletes obtain performance-enhancing drugs. Graham coached Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, each of whom was involved in high-profile doping cases. Graham sent a syringe of designer steroids to the USADA, which began an investigation that helped uncover the BALCO scandal that implicated dozens of athletes for using the drugs. He has portrayed himself as his sport's first whistleblower. His lawsuit alleged the USADA violated his First Amendment and due-process rights. The lawsuit was filed earlier this year. A federal court in North Carolina dismissed it on Friday. http://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/17829200/trevor-graham- lawsuit-usada-tossed-federal-judge THE TIMES CYCLING Sky ‘pushed rules to limit’ says UCI chief John Westerby October 18 2016, 12:01am, The Times The UCI says that Team Sky has provided more questions than answers over Wiggins’s TUEsJoe Saget/AFP/Getty Images The pressure on Sir Dave Brailsford has intensified after the president of cycling’s governing body criticised how Team Sky have dealt with the fallout from Bradley Wiggins’s controversial use of medical exemptions for a banned substance. Brian Cookson, who has been in charge of the UCI since 2013, feels that Sky pushed “to the very limit of the rules” in applying for therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) to enable Wiggins to have corticosteroid injections before three of the biggest races of his career. The answers coming from certain individuals, certain witnesses, have seemed to make the situation less clear rather than more clearBrian Cookson Brailsford, the team principal, has repeatedly refused to reveal the contents of a package of medical supplies delivered… http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/sky-pushed-rules-to-limit-says-uci-chief-87xp8wfw6 Cyclingnews.com Prudhomme: MPCC philosophy is the key to cycling's future Tour de France director issues resounding endorsement of voluntary body By Patrick Fletcher October 18, 2016 8:36pm Updated: October 18, 2016 8:36pm Race: Tour de France ) Christian Prudhomme took to the stage in Paris' Palais des Congres on Tuesday to unveil the route for the 2017 Tour de France, but one of the most striking aspects of his opening address had nothing to do with start towns, summit finishes or time trials. It was the moment he mentioned the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible (MPCC), and issued an endorsement of the voluntary organisation that, in the current climate, carried considerable weight and resonance. "It's the key to our future," he said, quoting the MPCC's strap line-come-mission statement: 'keeping the light alight'. Light has been hard to come by for cycling in recent weeks, the sport instead cast in the gloomy grey over ethical questions surrounding Bradley Wiggins - the first British winner of the Tour - and Sky - the team of four of the past five champions. Wiggins was well within the anti-doping rules when he was provided a Therapeutic Use Exemption for injections of the powerful and ordinarily-banned triamcinolone acetonide ahead of the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and 2013 Giro d'Italia for severe allergy symptoms. But skepticism abounds over the veracity of Wiggins' need for a drug David Millar has described as the "most potent" he ever used, the timing of the injections, and the credibility of Sky's self-styled commitment to cleanliness and transparency - to name a few issues at play. Such a TUE would not have been allowed had Sky been a member of the MPCC. Membership in the MPCC is voluntary and its rules go above and beyond those of the WADA code-bound UCI: a rider cannot avail of a TUE and race, while they also carry out regular cortisol testing - low levels being potentially indicative of fatigue or possible cortisone use. MPCC rules require teams to withdraw a rider with low cortisol from racing. That rule resulted in an exodus of WorldTour teams from the MPCC this year. In 2015, Lars Boom tested low for cortisol before the Tour de France and raced in violation of the rules. The Astana team was suspended and eventually left the organisation, as did Orica- GreenEdge, Team Katusha, and LottoNl-Jumbo. Only six of the 2017 WorldTour teams are members of the MPCC: AG2R La Mondiale, FDJ, Giant-Alpecin, Cannondale-Drapac, Lotto Soudal and Dimension Data. "The raison d'etre of the MPCC today has all the justification it did when it was established 10 years ago," said Prudhomme in Paris on Tuesday. "Imposing, by free consent, stricter rules than those of the international bodies, can allow us to avoid interrogations, debates, and controversies." As UCI president Brian Cookson reminded us last week, no formal anti-doping rules were broken by Wiggins or Sky, but the whole affair has inspired debate over whether the rules are open to abuse and, consequently, fit for purpose. "There can be respect for the rules but we must go further," said Prudhomme, who argued that more needs to be done to return the sport's reputation to full health. "Cycling has changed a lot - it's no longer the black sheep - but in terms of recovering the image of the sport it's still very complicated. "I like the MPCC's tag line - keep the light alight. That's the key to our future." http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/prudhomme-mpcc-philosophy-is-the-key-to-cyclings- future/ University of Groningen Research grant from the World Anti- Doping Agency for professor Hidde Haisma October 18, 2016 Professor Hidde J. Haisma from the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy has received a 100.000 US dollar grant from the World Anti-Doping Agency for his research project that will focus on the development of a gene doping detection assay based on next generation sequencing. Gene doping represents a threat to the integrity of sport and the health of athletes. The anti-doping community has been focusing efforts on developing a test for its detection. As the sequences of DNA of Epo and other doping genes are known, it is relatively easy to aggravate this test, which will then result in a false-negative result. Recently, Haisma and his group developed a new gene doping detection assay that will overcome this problem. The test is based on targeted sequencing of doping genes with potential to detect any doping gene in any context with a very high sensitivity.
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