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League Notes: WADA Appoints Former War Crimes Investigator To Rebuild RUSADA

WADA has appointed former war crimes investigator Peter Nicholson to help the "troubled" Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) "overhaul its anti-doping program." Nicholson, an Australian who was also part of the 2015 Cycling Independent Reform Commission, "will lead the project to rebuild Russia's anti-doping program and has already started his two-year mandate." Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency Dir Ieva Lukosiute-Stanikuniene "will also be part of the effort to restore confidence in the anti-doping system in Russia" (REUTERS, 4/25).

NADAL TAKES ACTION: Fed up with "being accused of doping," Rafael Nadal has written to Int'l Tennis Federation President David Haggerty and "asked for all of his drug-test results and blood profile records to be made public." Nadal said in the letter, "It can’t be free anymore in our tennis world to speak and to accuse without evidence." He sent the letter on the same day "he filed suit against a former French government minister who had suggested he had been doping." He wrote, "I know how many times I am tested, on and off competition. Please make all my information public. Please make public my biological passport, my complete history of anti-doping controls and tests. From now on I ask you to communicate when I am tested and the results as soon as they are ready from your labs" (AP, 4/26).

ICC RIPS WINDIES: The Int'l Cricket Council criticized the West Indies team for using its victory speech at the World Twenty20 tournament "to complain about their cricket board after a long drawn-out pay dispute." During the televised broadcast, West Indies captain Darren Sammy referred to the dispute which saw the team "threaten to withdraw from the tournament in India before a last-minute deal was brokered with the board." All-rounder Dwayne Bravo "later criticized the West Indies Cricket Board." The ICC said in a media release that the players' comments were "inappropriate." The ICC added that "serious consideration" had been given to "bringing code of conduct charges against the players" (REUTERS, 4/25).

LEAGUE BRIEFS ... 
The Int'l Cycling Union (UCI) announced Tuesday that it banned former Belgian cyclocross racer Femke Van den Driessche for six years in cycling’s "first recorded case of mechanical doping." The 19-year-old Van den Driessche, who announced her retirement from professional cycling in March, "was found to have a hidden electric motor in one of her bikes at the cyclocross world championships in January." She won the U23 European championship last fall. The discovery of the hidden motor, however, "derailed her career" (VELO NEWS, 4/26).

Spain has "reportedly joined France in banning bikes with disc brakes from road bikes" in all road cycling events, including sportives. Barcelona-based El Periodico reported that sources within the national cycling federation, the RFEC, confirmed that they are "absolutely prohibited" both in competition and in "marche ciclotiurista" -- sportive rides. Officials accompanying such events "will be able to expel any participant who turns up with a bike equipped with disc brakes" (ROAD.CC, 4/26).

Peace "has broken out" between the bookmaker Geoff Banks and the British Horseracing Authority, "which has settled a legal case that Banks raised after the Speculative Bid fiasco at Ascot last summer." Under the terms of the deal, the bookmaker "will not be compensated for the loss he suffered as a result of the failures of officials that day, though he will receive a contribution towards his legal costs." A BHA press release said that the settlement "did not constitute an admission of liability or wrongdoing by either party" (London GUARDIAN, 4/26).

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