lifetime bans
Perpetual exclusion orders
A lifetime ban is a permanent prohibition from participating in something—a sport, a platform, a venue.
Unlike temporary suspensions, lifetime bans have no expiration: He received a lifetime ban from baseball for gambling.
The phrase usually appears in contexts of serious misconduct where the governing body wants to send an unmistakable message.
- permanentFixed without end
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- kicked outForced to leave
- banishmentForced removal from place
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
disbarred · exile · persona non grata · suspension · exclusion · revoked · forbidden · punishment · final straw · stadium · league · commissioner · misconduct · cheating · doping · gambling · Pete Rose · hall of fame
- Doping ScandalsLance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, stripped medals, blood doping, failed drug test
- sports scandalscheating, doping, match fixing, point shaving, PEDs
- Anti-DopingWADA, drug testing, NADA, doping control, positive test
lifetime bansamnesty
Group pardon from authorities
pardons · reinstatement · good standing · honorary membership
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