Dopingautoriteit Annual Report 2019 (Netherlands) / Anti-doping Authority Netherlands (Dopingautoriteit). - Capelle aan den IJssel : Dopingautoriteit, 2020

Contents:

Chapter 1 – Education
Chapter 2 – Doping Control
Chapter 3 – Intelligence & Investigations
Chapter 4 – Disciplinary Proceedings
Chapter 5 – Legal Affairs
Chapter 6 – Scientific Research
Chapter 7 – Knowledge Management
Chapter 8 – Therapeutic Use Exemptions
Chapter 9 – International Affairs
Chapter 10 – People & Organisation
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Annex 1 - Financial overview
Annex 2 - Members of the Advisory Board and Committees
Annex 3 - Office staff
Annex 4 - Overview of publications and presentations
Annex 5 - Secondary positions
Annex 6 - Abbreviations

In March 2020 Sport Ireland has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Gaelic football player IS-7130 after his sample tested positive for the prohibited substance Meldonium.

After notification the Athlete gave a prompt admission, waived his right for a hearing and accepted the sanction proposed by Sport Ireland.

Therefore Sport Ireland decides on 8 April 2020 to impose a 4 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete IS-7130 starting on the date of the sample collection.

Fluorescence Chemosensing of Meldonium Using a Cross-Reactive Sensor Array / Ergin Yalcin, Cem Erkmen, Tugba Taskin-Tok, Mehmet Gokhan Caglayan. - (Analyst (2020) 30 March).

• PMID: 32226998.
• DOI: 10.1039/d0an00209g

Abstract

In this paper, we report a fluorescent sensor array approach for the urinary detection of a prohibited substance in sports, meldonium. Four chemosensors with ethidium bromide scaffolds were employed in this method. The interaction between meldonium and chemosensors was investigated by different techniques, such as ultraviolet-visible absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectrometry. Molecular dynamics simulation was also used to elucidate and support the interaction mechanisms between meldonium and the chemosensors. Differential responses obtained from the sensor array enabled the qualitative and quantitative analyses of meldonium with low error values. This method was able to detect and quantify meldonium at the nM level, fulfilling the requirements of minimum performance defined by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

2019 Annual Statistical Report On Doping Control / Bulgarian Anti-Doping Centre (ADC). - Sofia : ADC, 2020

Doping in tennis, where we are and where we should be going? / Thomas Zandonaia, Darias Holgado. - (Performance Enhancement & Health 7 (2020) 100157 (31 January); p. 1-2).

• DOI: 10.1016/j.peh.2020.100157

Highlights

- The lack of studies concerning doping in tennis is evident.
- Doping rumours give rise to easy simplistic speculation around tennis players.
- Projects to fight against doping in tennis are needed.

2018 Anti-Doping Testing Figures / World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). - Montreal : WADA, 2019

Contents:

- Executive Summary - pp. 2-6 (5 pages)
- Laboratory Report -– pp. 7-34 (28 pages)
- Sport Report - pp. 35-159 (125 pages)
- Testing Authority Report - pp. 160-304 (145 pages)
- ABP Report-Blood Analysis - pp. 305-343 (39 pages)

Annual banned-substance review: analytical approaches in human sports drug testing / Mario Thevis, Tiia Kuuranne, Hans Geyer. - (Drug testing and analysis 12 (2020) 1 (January); p. 7-26)

• PMID: 31724288
• DOI: 10.1002/dta.2735

Contents:

• Introduction
• Anabolic Agents
  • Anabolic-androgenic steroids
  • Initial testing procedures: Comprehensive screening, metabolism studies
  • Steroid profiling in urine and serum
  • Confirmatory testing procedures – IRMS
  • Other anabolic agents
• Peptide Hormones, Growth Factors, Related Substances, and Mimetics
  • Erythropoietin-receptor agonists and transforming growth factor-beta (TGR- β) inhibitors)
  • Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) activating agents
  • Growth hormone, its fragments and releasing factors, chorionic gonadotrophin and luteinizing hormone (LH)
• β2‐Agonists
• Hormone and Metabolic Modulators
• Diuretics and other Masking Agents, Stimulants, Narcotics, beta-blockers
• Manipulation of blood and blood components
• Gene Doping
• Conclusion

Abstract

Within the complex construct of today's anti-doping work, continuously updated routine doping controls as well as advancements in sampling and analysis have been of particular relevance and importance. New analytes of existing classes of prohibited substances are frequently included into sports drug testing assays, analytical approaches are optimized to allow for better sensitivities, selectivity, and/or faster turnaround times, and research dedicated to addressing analytical issues concerning scenarios of both (potentially) inadvertent doping and new emerging doping agents is constantly conducted. By way of reviewing and summarizing, this annual banned-substance review evaluates literature published between October 2018 and September 2019 offering an in-depth evaluation of developments in these arenas and their potential application to substances reported in WADA's 2019 Prohibited List.

Complete Overview of Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods from the IOC Lists (1968-2003) & WADA Prohibited Lists (2004- ) / ed. M.C. Tuk, Olivier de Hon. - Doping Authority Netherlands (Dopingautoriteit); Anti-Doping Knowledge Center (ADKC), 2019