{"id":16,"date":"2007-08-23T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-12-21T20:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:18:43","slug":"230807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/featured\/230807","title":{"rendered":"Doping offenders can expect 4-year ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tubes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"tubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tubes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tubes.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tubes-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OSAKA, August 23 &#8212; World athletics governing body  IAAF here Thursday said that first-time drug cheats will face a  mandatory four-year ban.<\/p>\n<p>The IAAF initially imposed four-year bans on  doping cheats in 1991 but they were forced to turn back their tough  stance for legal challenges in 1997.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The IAAF Congress agreed that the IAAF should push  for this change, to apply for serious first-time offenders, at the  World Anti-Doping Conference in November in Madrid, where the World  Anti-Doping Code is under revision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We remain convinced that strong penalties are an  important cornerstone of an effective anti-doping campaign in general,  and in athletics in particular,&#8221; the IAAF congress said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We unanimously reiterate in the strongest  possible terms the position adopted at the 2005 Congress regarding  four-year penalties for first-time serious doping infractions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF, was confident  that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will stand behind the IAAF and  get tough on doping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that WADA adopts stronger measures. We  hope to define the circumstances and substances by November,&#8221; Diack said  after the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Even if WADA failed to do so, Diack said that the  IAAF had the right to extend the ban to four years from the current two.  He added that doping offenders will also be forced to hand back prize  money they have won.<\/p>\n<p>WADA, which was set up in 1999, also ruled that two-year bans are imposed on first-timers.<\/p>\n<p>source <strong>IAAF<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSAKA, August 23 &#8212; World athletics governing body IAAF here Thursday said that first-time drug cheats will face a mandatory four-year ban. The IAAF initially imposed four-year bans on doping cheats in 1991 but they were forced to turn back their tough stance for legal challenges in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[122,9,8],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-122","tag-ban","tag-doping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}