Edmonton Elks draft pick Darien Newell has been given a six-year sanction by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport for a rule violation under its Canadian Anti-Doping Program.<\/p>\n
The announcement Thursday from CCES comes after Newell was given a year-long ban by the CFL for a series of doping infractions.<\/p>\n
The CFL ban was levied on April 30, shortly after Newell was selected in the second round of the league’s draft out of Queen’s University.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CCES said that it was determined that Newell was also subject to its anti-doping program as he was a U Sports athlete at the time of the infractions.<\/p>\n
During the sanction period, Newell is ineligible to participate in any capacity with any sport signatory to the CADP or the World Anti-Doping Code, including training with teammates. The CFL is not a signatory to either entity.<\/p>\n
All nine CFL teams were made aware of Newell’s situation before this year’s draft and that he had a hearing pending with an arbitrator on the matter.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-two, 289-pound Newell, from Brampton, Ont., was regarded as a blue-chip CFL prospect and was the top-ranked U Sports player on the CFL scouting bureau’s top-20 list heading into the draft.<\/p>\n
According to the CFL, Newell was selected for a random test March 19 while participating in the league’s national combine. His sample tested positive for nine banned substances, including Boldenone, Nandrolone, Drostanolone and Norclostebol, all forms of steroids.<\/p>\n
Newell had appealed the positive test, and the case was passed on to an independent arbitrator. Newell withdrew his appeal on Wednesday, incurring an anti-doping rule violation and a one-year sanction.<\/p>\n
Last season, Newell had 33 tackles (17 solo, eight for loss), five sacks and a forced fumble. He was a perennial All-Canadian, registering 92 tackles (56 solo, 27.5 for loss), 17 sacks and a forced fumble at Queen’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Elks draft pick Darien Newell has been given a six-year sanction by the Canadian Centre for Ethics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-137094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}