Swimmer's Daily

Category: Doping

  • Why did CAS burn Subirats and not Cielo ?

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    In short, Venezuela’s short course 50 meter butterfly world champion Albert Subirats missed the world championships last month because he was reported to have missed three anti-doping tests (a sanction that is now totally lifted) while now 50 meter butterfly long course world champion César Cielo and 2 other Brazilians got a last-minute express trial…

  • FINA lifts Albert Subirat’s antidoping ban

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    According to various news outlets in Venezuela, FINA has decided to lift the one-year antidoping suspension that Albert Subirats got earlier this summer, due to missing tests because of his federation not forwarding his whereabouts. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.

  • Cesar Cielo gets off with a warning

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    The Court of Arbitration for Sport today upheld a decision by the Brazilian swimming federation to impose the minimum penalty – a warning – after Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos and Henrique Barbosa tested positive for a banned diuretic in May. Fourth swimmer Vinicius Waked has been served with a suspension for one year, since…

  • The Cielo case is a disaster for the sport, says Pieter van den Hoogenband

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    The positive test of Brazilian swimmer Cesar Cielo is a disaster for the sport, according to triple Olympic Champion Pieter van den Hoogenband. “This is terrible”, says Pieter, “swimming is at the Olympics on par with athletics”. “The sport is so popular because it was clean, the swimming had no doping affairs. Disastrous, that this…

  • FINA chiefs respect Cielo despite calling for doping ban

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    FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu insists that they have the greatest respect for Brazilian sprint star Cesar Cielo and the others despite calling for a doping ban that threatens his Olympic chances. “Cielo is one of the greatest swimmers we have and we respect him very much and we respect the Brazilian swimming federation for…

  • CAS will decide on Cielo and the others on July 22

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    The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today that it has scheduled it arbitration of FINA’s appeal against Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked as well as the Brazilian Swimming Federation for July 20 in Shanghai, partially via video conferencing. They promise that it will take only half a day, and…

  • Clenbuterol-contaminated meat a worry at Shanghai 2011

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    Interesting article here on the Washington Examiner, listing how different teams will cope with the danger of clenbuterol-contaminated meat at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. USA are as always their own food with them, Australia will import meat and refrain from any pork meat, Italians will be urged to avoid red meat and instead eat…

  • “Drugs cloud over world swimming championships”

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    Nice one Brazil, serve the journalists the opportunity to write headlines like this, followed by these intro words: “A damaging drugs scandal overhangs the world swimming championships in Shanghai, where a misfiring Michael Phelps will try to reignite his Olympic form.” It could have been this, quote Swimming World Magazine’s John Long: “The 2009 World…

  • FINA appeals César Cielo and the others’ doping case

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    FINA has decided to appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the decisions of the Doping Panel of the Brazilian Aquatic Sports Confederation, in the matters of positive doping tests to the substance Furosemide for the swimmers César Cielo Filho, Henrique Barbosa, Nicholas Santos and Vinicius Waked. The athletes are presently not suspended…