After the positive test, Adams asked for a hearing before an independent arbitrator, who determined he had committed an anti-doping violation, and that Adams should be suspended from competition for a two-year timeframe.

Following the second test, the CCES asserted an anti-doping violation against Adams for refusing the test.

On 10 July 2012 the United States Anti-Doping Agency issued Ferrari a lifetime sports ban for numerous anti-doping violations including possession, trafficking, administration and assisting doping.

Thymosin beta-4 was allegedly used by some players in various Australian football codes and is under investigation by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority for anti-doping violations (Feb/Mar 2013):

The tribunal, however, held that an anti-doping violation had occurred and ordered the player ineligible to play for 12 months, backdated to the date of his positive test.

It later emerged that the Union Cycliste Internationale had launched disciplinary proceedings into Bertagnolli, in the light of an alleged anti-doping violation via his biological passport.

However, Fazekas committed an anti-doping violation by failing to submit a proper urine sample, and was disqualified, lifting Alekna into a gold medal.

At the time, this prevented him from finishing 4th, but after Ferenc Gyurkovics was disqualified for an anti-doping violation, the miss turned out to cost him a bronze medal, as he would have won a three-way tie on body weight.

Former Hull centre Martin Gleeson and chief executive James Rule banned over anti-doping violations.

The Turkish Weightlifting Federation itself had been suspended by the IWF for "repeated anti-doping violations" until May 2006.