The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) welcomed the decision of the
International Natural Bodybuilding Association (INBA) to impose a two-year sports ban on
bodybuilder Isaac Hall for a failure to comply with a request to provide a sample. On 10 June 2009, ASADA approached Mr Hall out-of-competition (6am at home) and requested him to provide a sample for testing purposes. Mr Hall refused to participate in the sample collection process after been warned by the collection official of the consequences. Two days after failing to comply with a request to provide a sample, Mr Hall officially retired from sporting competition. INBA has imposed a two-year WADA enforced period of ineligibility against Mr Hall for the sample collection failure. Due to his retirement, Mr Hall’s period of ineligibility will not commence until he rejoins a sport with a compliant World Anti-Doping Code policy. Until Mr Hall’s sanction of two years is served, he is banned from taking part in any national and international sports that have adopted the World Anti-Doping Code. In additional of the two year WADA ban, INBA imposed an INBA Life sanction under its Misconduct Ruling. INBA has a zero tolerance attitude towards violations of its anti-doping policy. Conducting drug testing is the corner stone of upholding the principle of Natural Bodybuilding, making refusing a drug test the ‘golden violation’. If you compete with INBA you must accept you are liable to be tested at any time, and any number of times, during your membership. Mr Hall had previously been drug tested both in and out-of-competition.