2. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has imposed a doping
ban of four years on former Saudi Arabia star Mohammed
Noor over a doping offence.
The 38-year-old Noor tested positive for banned substance
Amphetamine in a routine in-competition doping control
exam in November 2015. Amphetamine is considered as a
performance enhancing drug by many anti-drug bodies
and included in most of drug-related tests. It is not known
to create extra physical strength or mental energy and its
main effects include alertness, wakefulness, a decrease
sense of fatigue, and increased confidence.
3. Noor was provisionally suspended in November last year and
then banned for four years in February by the Saudi anti-doping
panel. The football star appeal and the Saudi appeal panel
recognized the presence of the banned substance in his sample
but decided to end the ban in April. Noor then retired in June.
Noor twice represented his country at the World Cup. He has
98 international caps to his name and is one of the country's
most famous sporting figures and has spent 23 years in the top
flight with Al Ittihad and Al Nassr. Noor has won two AFC
Champions League and eight Saudi Premier League titles in a
highly successful career. An attacking midfielder, Noor spent
nearly his entire career at Jeddah club Al-Ittihad. The 38-year-
old has played nearly 400 league games for Al-Ittihad, scoring
more than 130 goals and has scored 8 goals in nearly 100
appearances for the Green Falcons on international level.