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Chris Maduewesi
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Following the high-level of dope cases that trailed Athletics last month,the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Thursday announced a four year ban for those found guilty of doping.
No fewer than six Jamaican athletes tested positive to banned substances,with the high-level cases being Asafa Powell and American sprinter Tyson Gay.
Initially doping cases attracts sanctions of a two-year ban,but the IAAF wants to from 2015,revert back to the four-year ban they handed out,which was lowered in 1997 to two years.
“The IAAF has an ethical obligation to the overwhelming majority of athletes and officials who believe in clean sport,” it said in a statement.
The IAAF however wants the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to increase its bans across all sports,that is at two years, but insists they will go on with their own four-year bans.
“The new Wada code, which will come into force on 1 January, 2015, will reflect our firm commitment to have tougher penalties and the IAAF will return to four-year sanctions for serious doping offences,” the IAAF said.
“As a leader in this fight the IAAF has built and delivers a programme that is well resourced, far reaching, sophisticated and increasingly able to detect and remove from the sport those who breach our anti-doping rules.”
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No fewer than six Jamaican athletes tested positive to banned substances,with the high-level cases being Asafa Powell and American sprinter Tyson Gay.
Initially doping cases attracts sanctions of a two-year ban,but the IAAF wants to from 2015,revert back to the four-year ban they handed out,which was lowered in 1997 to two years.
“The IAAF has an ethical obligation to the overwhelming majority of athletes and officials who believe in clean sport,” it said in a statement.
The IAAF however wants the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to increase its bans across all sports,that is at two years, but insists they will go on with their own four-year bans.
“The new Wada code, which will come into force on 1 January, 2015, will reflect our firm commitment to have tougher penalties and the IAAF will return to four-year sanctions for serious doping offences,” the IAAF said.
“As a leader in this fight the IAAF has built and delivers a programme that is well resourced, far reaching, sophisticated and increasingly able to detect and remove from the sport those who breach our anti-doping rules.”
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