• Victorian Police have charged an 18-year-old with match-fixing at an amateur tennis tournament in Traralgon in October 2016. ‘The Queensland man was charged with engaging in conduct that corrupts a betting outcome’, read a 5 January statement. ‘He will appear at the Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court on 2 March 2017’. Police said that Victoria Police’s Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit (SIIU), which was formed in February 2013 to investigate the Southern Stars case, assisted with the investigation.

• The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has been forwarded a list of 200 athletes implicated in the systemic doping methods outlined in Part Two of the Independent Person (IP) Report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), published by Richard McLaren on 9 December. ‘The IAAF has been forwarded about 200 names of Russian athletes by the McLaren investigation team’, read a statement.

• While 2016 was ‘admittedly a challenging year’, it also ‘demonstrated WADA’s ongoing resolve to stand up for the values of clean sport’, reads a New Year Message to stakeholders from Craig Reedie and Olivier Niggli, President and Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The year also highlighted that ‘the foundation of anti-doping is solid; that the Code is strong; and, that WADA’s Compliance and Monitoring Program is strengthening ADOs’ Code practice’, write Reedie and Niggli.

• The Russian Bobsleigh Federation has confirmed that it intends to fight any attempt to sanction four Russian bobsledders, after their provisional suspension was announced by the International Bobsleigh Federation (IBSF) on 30 December. ‘The Russian Bobsleigh Federation confirms the receipt of documents relating to the suspension of four Russian athletes until 19 January 2017’, reads a statement. ‘The Russian Bobsleigh Federation says it does not agree with this decision. We reserve the right to retaliate.’ If the athletes are scheduled to take part in the IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Cup, then they would miss three rounds in Altenberg, Germany (2-8 Jan); Winterberg, Germany (9-15 Jan); and St. Moritz, Switzerland (16-22 Jan).