The WPA added that anti-doping authorities must now collaborate with player associations and WADA to ensure those serving existing sanctions for consuming these substances should be permitted to apply for a reduced sentence.

Her sentiments were echoed by Attenborough, as the images on the big screen switched from showing footage of destruction to footage of dolphins playing in the waves and people marveling at the northern lights.

This decrypts witless ‘packets’ which are essentially shipments of data from a device to a router that are broken up into smaller parts and then reassembled at their destination. Those packets could contain anything from an email to an IP address and more. 

The Indianapolis Colts officially announced the signing of quarterback Philip Rivers on Saturday, handing the keys of the franchise to the 16-year veteran. Terms of the deal were not released, but multiple reports peg it as a one-year, $25 million pact.

Calls from sporting organizations for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace on Saturday with USA Track and Field (USATF) and Brazil’s Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.

“It is now essential that no player serves a sanction one day longer than they have to under the new rules. Swift action by anti-doping authorities will ensure players will no longer be left to suffer with their careers in jeopardy.”

But failing to look beyond these narratives obscures the moments of hope and humanity at COP26. Political showboating and logistical difficulties have stolen much of the limelight at the summit so far. There are plenty of them to be found, if you peek past the chaos.

Oct 2 (Reuters) – The World Players Association (WPA) said athletes who tested positive for recreational drugs would no longer be left to suffer with their careers in jeopardy following changes to WADA’s list of prohibited substances.

Closer to home, many delegates traveling to Glasgow from London had faced down weather-related troubles of their own. Once they reached the summit, many delegates also reported difficulties in accessing the venue, citing long queues and confusion over taking daily COVID tests.  People were scrambling to book the flights they’d been asked not to take in order to travel to the world’s most important climate conference. Storms that downed trees meant that all trains were canceled.

The WPA, an association that represents around 85,000 athletes globally through more than 100 player associations, said that in nearly all previous cases, players consumed these substances “recreationally” or suffered from “underlying challenges with addiction”.

“Based on clear evidence, Afkari stabbed to death an innocent man. He has confessed at the court. The court issued the death sentence based on strong evidence and the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence,” the judiciary said in a statement carried by Iranian media last week.

‘This results in scenarios where client devices that are unaffected (either patched or using different Wi-Fi chips not vulnerable to Kr00k) can be connected to an access point (often times beyond an individual’s control) that is vulnerable,’ researchers wrote in a research paper.

“We are extremely concerned that Navid’s execution is imminent, given the Iranian Judiciary’s record in such cases and the way they have previously carried out political execution,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of U.S.-based The Center for Human Rights in Iran.

The same is true of the political negotiations. Whether the G-20 talks that took place in Rome last week went well or whether they didn’t depends on who you ask. World leaders failed to agree on an end date to their use of coal and to get all countries to commit to net zero by 2050, which didn’t make for an optimistic start to the UN climate summit in the eyes of many onlookers.

In August, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said that athletes testing positive for recreational drugs out-of-competition would be banned for 1-3 months instead of two years when the policy is changed next year.

If an athlete can show these drugs were consumed out-of-competition and not related to enhanced sport performance, the suspension imposed would be three months, reduced to one month if they complete a drug rehabilitation program.

A report earlier from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, this year described the climate situation as a “code red for humanity.” Wildfires, hurricanes and other forces of nature have ravaged countries around the world, a consequence of warming temperatures.  The conference comes at a critical point in the fight to reverse the climate crisis.

Specifically, the exploit, dubbed KrØØk allowed hackers to tinker with the encryption of data communicated between a device and the router, causing it to change from a random string of characters to all zeroes and effectively rending the encryption useless.