The reason for the third test was to try to put more evidence before the arbitration panel
Posted in General on 22. Jul, 2010
“The reason for the third test was to try to put more evidence before the arbitration panel for them to reach the right judgement. If there is no third test, the arbitration hearing will be held early, possibly before the end of January.”Two tests found Modahl had 42 times the legal amount of testosterone in her urine, but the runner claimed her samples were contaminated in Lisbon, having been kept out of refrigeration for 40 hours, and that the testing procedures were flawed.She was cleared last July by a BAF appeals panel on the grounds that there could have been contamination through improper refrigeration procedures at the laboratory.. Basketball
London Towers, the League Trophy winners, reached the last four of the National Cup with a 77-66 win at Thames Valley Tigers this week, and return to Bracknell tonight in the Budweiser League as they try to stay ahead of the champions, Sheffield Sharks, writes Duncan Hooper.
Tigers, runners-up to Sheffield last season, have slipped to ninth after defeats against Newcastle Comets and Birmingham Bullets, and they could now struggle to reach the quarter-finals of the play-offs.Even so Towers’ coach, Kevin Cadle, is not taking a win for granted as they pursue the championship following last weekend’s Trophy victory over Worthing Bears.”Now we’ve got that first title I hope we can relax, but Tigers still scare me,” Cadle said. Substitutes used: Ramandeep Singh, Baljeet Singh.Umpires: S Deo (Sp), P van Beneden (Bel).. Athletics
Diane Modahl, the 1990 Commonwealth 800 metres champion who was suspended for four years by the British Athletic Federation after testing positive for drugs at a 1994 meet in Lisbon, may be able to clear her name by the end of this month.
The Portuguese government yesterday rejected an International Amateur Athletic Federation request to review her urine samples, citing Monday’s ruling by the National Anti-Doping Council that no third test would be carried out for technical, scientific and juridical reasons.”This is the last stage before the arbitration hearing,” the IAAF spokesman Giorgio Reinieri said. With 30 seconds of the half remaining Giles struck again to give Britain a 3-1 half-time lead.India speeded up the game after the interval, exposing a lack of pace in the British defence and eventually drawing level through goals by Mukesh Kumar and Dhanraj Pillay.Tomorrow Britain tomorrow play Canada, beaten 5-1 yesterday by the Dutch in a powerful display of attacking hockey.GREAT BRITAIN: S Mason (Reading); J Wyatt (Reading), Soma Singh (Southgate), G Fordham ( Hounslow), Kalbir Takher (Cannock), S Hazlitt (Hounslow), C Mayer (Cannock), J Shaw (Southgate), R Thompson (Hounslow), J Laslett (Teddington, capt), N Thompson (Old Loughtonians).
Substitutes used: C Giles (Havant), D Hall (Guildford).INDIA: B Anjapara; Pargat Singh (capt), A Aldrin, Harprett Singh, R Nabi, S Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Baljeet Singh, Dhanraj Pillay, Sanjeev Kumar, G Ferreira. Further disaster followed as India took the lead four minutes into the game when Sanjeev Kumar, taking advantage of confusion in the British defence, worked the ball past Simon Mason.With Chris Mayer creating a lot of problems with his speed down the right, Britain clawed their way back into the game through corner specialist Calum Giles 16 minutes into the game.A splendidly taken goal by Rob Thompson in the 30th minute gave Britain the lead following a flowing move started by Guy Fordham deep in his own half. Hockey
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Great Britain showed courage and enterprise in their first match in the Olympic qualifying tournament here yesterday, writes Bill Colwill from Barcelona.Denied the services of Russell Garcia, Julian Halls then suffered back spasms and was unable to get out of bed. He still has seven matches of the ban to serve, but has played since December after being granted leave for a judicial review.Everton’s manager, Joe Royle, said: “We anticipated this.
It is no great surprise in view of the high-profile nature of the case I am pleased Duncan is available for the Arsenal game All we can do now is wait and see what happens.”. The Scottish international can continue to play while the decision is being reached.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh has been considering a judicial review by the player to lift the suspension, imposed in April 1994 for head-butting John McStay of Raith while Ferguson was playing for Rangers. He has served half of a three-month jail sentence for the assault.His appeal was turned down by the SFA last November. The Judge, Lord Macfadyen, said he was reserving judgement after hearing four hours of legal argument from both sides. That may still be the case – British courts will have a say on the domestic significance of yesterday’s developments – but the Commission’s desire to look beyond the Bosman judgment and use all its powers to influence football’s business practices will send shock waves through the game..
The Everton striker Duncan Ferguson was yesterday cleared to play in today’s Premiership match at Arsenal after a ruling was deferred on his challenge to a 12-match Scottish Football Association suspension. An assimilated player is one who has lived in the country for five years and has played in that club’s youth team. Uefa claimed the Bosman ruling allowed it to maintain that policy, but Brittan a former British Home Secretary, said the Commission has rejected that argument.Brittan added that the Commission was ready to assist the football authorities in devising new policies for distributing wealth between bigger and smaller clubs – perhaps through income from the Champions’ League or television rights.British clubs had thought that the Bosman ruling only applied to cross- border transfers, and that Britain’s internal transfer market was likely to remain unscathed. that football clubs may field only a limited number of professional players who are citizens of other [EU] member states.”Uefa was at odds with the Commission this week when it declared it would maintain its “three-plus-two” rule – which limits teams to fielding a maximum of three foreign players and two “assimilated” foreigners – in European club competitions. The Commission has the authority to fine those violating competition rules up to 10 per cent of their annual turnover.The Commission confirmed that transfer fees and nationality restrictions also violate rules governing the European Economic Area, which groups all the “Common Market” countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway – and the Comission has rejected a request made last year by Fifa and Uefa for exemption from EU competition rules.”The cross-border transfer system of football players within the EU could not be be maintained,” Sir Leon Brittan, the EU Trade Commissioner, told the European Parliament in Strasbourg “Nor could the rule… This is a major new development which will alarm football administrators worldwide, as the Bosman ruling only dealt with dealings between clubs in different EU countries. That judgment was based on an EU treaty article guaranteeing workers the right to move freely within the Union.
The Commission’s warning comes under separate rules giving it the authority to investigate cartel-like activity.The Commission has told Uefa and Fifa, in a letter sent this week, that it would open formal legal proceedings against both bodies, and lift their immunity from fines, if they do not give a satisfactory response within six weeks. But she responded by winning eight consecutive games, in which she lost just 12 points, ending up with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Julie Halard-Decugis, of France.Seles, three times an Australian Open champion, said her play in the second set was her best since arriving in Australia.. Football
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Fifa, world football’s governing body, and Uefa, its European counterpart, have been told by the European Commission that they must oversee an end to the transfer fee system and nationality restrictions within six weeks – or face the threat of fines and court action.The Commission reminded the football authorities that both practices, which were declared illegal in the last month’s Jean-Marc Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice, violated European Union law barring agreements that restrict competition.The Commission also said that it might also investigate relations between European clubs and the rest of the world, and national transfer systems. However, he had it taped, saved three set points in a marathon second set, and beat the Swedish qualifier Nicklas Kulti 6-4, 7-6, 6-4.In the women’s third round, Monica Seles ran into her first patch of difficulty, dropping her serve in the first game with a double-fault. “For me, it’s worked out OK,” he said of the Rebound Ace surface.Thomas Muster, seeded third and in contention for the No 1 spot in the rankings, twisted his right ankle while back-pedalling for a deep shot midway through the second set of his third-round match. He just forced me to raise my level.”Agassi’s next opponent will be Jonas Bjorkman, of Sweden, who beat Todd Martin 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.Michael Chang, the No 5 seed, advanced as temperatures climbed past 32C (90F) yesterday afternoon. The American, the only one of the top five seeds to win all his matches in straight sets, beat Guillaume Raoux, of France, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6.Raoux fought hard in the final set with some impressive sharp angles and deft drop shots, but he could not match his opponent’s steadiness.