(1) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(2) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(3) Before 2015, Wada did not have the authority to conduct its own investigations under the World Anti-Doping Code, according to Nichols.
(4) Mo Farah must clear air quickly with Alberto Salazar over doping claims Read more Farah intends to speak to his coach, Alberto Salazar, in the next day or so about the serious doping allegations made by Panorama .
(5) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
(6) In Kenya’s case, Wada’s intervention is about forcing the nation’s government to provide the £3.5m needed to fund and staff the fledgling Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya.
(7) However, both 3 h and 14 days after the reinfusion of autologous blood, the mean time of the blood-doped subjects was significantly lower (94.1%; P less than 0.05; 96.3%, P less than 0.05, respectively) than the control group.
(8) "The BOA and the panel both stress that no advance notice out of competition testing is a fundamental part of ensuring an effective fight against doping in sport," he said.
(9) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
(10) Given a certain somebody gave millions of cancer sufferers false hope by insisting his seven Tour de France wins were the result of a medical miracle rather than the most sophisticated doping programme ever seen in sport, it is hard to keep the faith.
(11) The present technique is suitable for checking and characterizing silicon rods before their neutron-doping.
(12) It was recently shown that oligolamellar vesicles of 3:1 mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) and the photopolymerizable lipid 1,2-bis[10-(2',4'-hexadienoyloxy)decanoyl]-sn-glycero-3-phosphocho line (SorbPC) are destabilized by polymerization of the SorbPC [Lamparski, H., Liman, U., Frankel, D.A., Barry, J.A., Ramaswami, V., Brown, M.F., & O'Brien, D.F.
(13) Russia is only the fifth country to be banned from competition in the IAAF’s 103-year history and the first to be barred for systemic doping.
(14) That process could see Kenya’s national anti-doping agency being declared non-compliant – although insiders were keen to stress the chances of the country being removed from the Olympics were slim because the International Olympic Committee would need to kick Kenya out.
(15) Wada had asked a series of questions to the Kenyan authorities and stressed that we needed the Kenyan government to expedite, and show commitment to, the national anti-doping organisation’s development.
(16) Caution should be practiced with oral contraceptives in dope control of anabolic steroids.
(17) One of Armstrong's former teammates, Floyd Landis, had admitted to doping and accused Armstrong of the same.
(18) Russian officials have acknowledged the country has a problem with doping but denied any government involvement.
(19) The UCI should also pay more attention to medical issues in cycling and when Therapeutic Use Exemptions should be granted Words of warning Sanctioned riders should be used ‘as an educational tool’ to inform their peers about the dangers of doping through interviews, appearances, lectures and recorded messages pointing out the impact of doping on their lives, ‘the social stigma, financial impact, health effects and self-esteem issues’ Voice of the union The UCI should ‘facilitate the creation of a strong riders’ union … to give riders a collective voice particularly on issues of ownership, revenue sharing, the racing calendar and anti-doping.
(20) Last week Kenya missed a deadline to prove to the World Anti-Doping Agency it was doing enough to combat doping, and the IAAF president, Sebastian Coe, refused to rule out the possibility of a ban.
Waterproof
Definition:
(a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
(n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
(n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.
(v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the thickness of the waterproofing sheath is not a very sensitive variable, assuming the thickness is between 0.5 and 2.0 mm.
(2) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
(3) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).
(4) The BBC sessions version of Hey is one of my favourite ever songs and to hear that, as the sun was trying to break through, almost made me forget the fact I'd lost my waterproof and was walking about sopping wet in a glorified bin-liner.
(5) In the meantime, clinicians should be aware of this problem and may choose to prevent these errors by wrapping the connection with waterproof tape.
(6) He issues instructions home for new boots, a waterproof sheet, a lamp, field glasses and a camera.
(7) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
(8) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(9) Below this is a very thin waterproof layer of wax and 'sclerotin' continuous with the contents of the tubular filaments, which is readily removed by adsorptive dusts.
(10) British mountaineer Kenton Cool was sitting in the check-in lounge at Gatwick airport last Thursday with a locked waterproof box that, if all goes according to plan, will not leave his side until he reaches Everest's summit for a 10th time this spring.
(11) He has kitted us out in our super-modern waterproof gear that makes us look like a family of Scandinavian traffic cops, but about which even the teenager doesn't complain.
(12) Let's hope he's not brought his brolly along this time, but invested in a nice waterproof jacket instead, a mac maybe.
(13) Waterproof footwear and clothing should be worn to minimize skin contact.
(14) Make sure you take a waterproof bivvy for your sleeping bag, plenty of warm layers and hot food and drink.
(15) It is also waterproof and would be perfect to use in hydrogen reservoirs.
(16) After struggling into a dry suit, I grabbed a handful of waterproof gear bags and headed down to the beach.
(17) Motorola is promising “all-day battery life” for the Moto E, and has fitted it with features such as Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 and P2i’s waterproof nano coating (which makes the phone splash-proof) that are found only on smartphones costing twice as much as the Moto E. As with the Moto G, Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android for the Moto E, something that cannot be said for most of the other smartphones in its class.
(18) Bedding has been constructed with a vapour-permeable waterproof fabric that is impermeable to house dust mite antigen (Der p1).
(19) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
(20) Try a waterproof picnic blanket, much cheaper and easy to keep clean.