19 January 2017

Sports Integrity Briefs – 19 January 2017

• The Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee of the UK Parliament will hear evidence from Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Nicole Cooke on Tuesday 24 January at 11:00am as part of its Inquiry into Combatting Doping in Sport. ‘The session is expected to cover issues raised at the Committee’s evidence session last month with British Cycling and Team Sky’, read a statement. ‘Members are also expected to ask questions on the topic of the treatment of women in cycling’. An extensive interview on the barriers Cooke faced in competing as a British cyclist is available here.

Manchester City has been given an extension to today’s deadline to respond to a Football Association (FA) charge that it failed to update its whereabouts information, so that players could be located for anti-doping tests. An FA spokesperson confirmed that the Premier League club now has until 4pm on Friday 27 January to respond to the charge.

India’s Supreme Court has delayed its decision on the appointment of a panel of administrators that will run the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) until tomorrow, reports the Indian Express. The Supreme Court ordered that administrators should be appointed to run the BCCI after removing its President and Treasurer for failing to implement the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Report. A timeline for those reforms was handed to the BCCI in August last year, however a Third Status Report from the Justice Lodha Committee, published on 14 November, made it clear that the reforms had not been implemented.

Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecutions is to order charges against Kenyan Minister for Sports, Hassan Wario and his Principal Secretary, Dr. Richard Ekai, over misappropriation of Rio 2016 Olympic funding, reports the Kenya Citizen. Wario disbanded the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) after the Rio 2016 Olympics, after various corruption allegations. Team Kenya Chef de Mission Stephen arap Soi and other NOCK officials have been freed on bail after being arrested following their return from Rio in connection to the allegations.

• The International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS) – the governing body for the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) – has appointed 24 new arbitrators and two new mediators. For a full list of the new appointments, click here.

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