Andy has been writing about the governance of sport for over 15 years. Prior to working on the Sports Integrity Initiative, he was the editor of World Sports Law Report for eight years. He has also worked for the Press Association and has written for numerous trade magazines. He has also created, chaired and spoken at numerous conferences on the business of sport, and produced the Sports Law Show for iSportConnect TV.
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Icelandic football has been shaken by a sexual harassment and abuse scandal which has swept away the President of the football federation (KSI), Gudni Bergsson, and his board. This followed initial attempts by Bergsson to refute recent reports on social media and an article by a sexologist about the silence...
Marcin Polak piloted by Michał Ładosz, who won Bronze in the Men’s B 4,000m Individual Pursuit at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, have both returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs – or ‘positive tests’) for exogenous (external or ‘synthetic’) erythropoietin (EPO). The international cycling Union (UCI) announced that a sample given...
• UEFA delegation visits Qatar and makes initial recommendations after fruitful meeting with organisers and stakeholders. In May, UEFA set up a dedicated working group to gain a better or further understanding regarding the issues surrounding human rights in Qatar up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup and beyond. The...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has withdrawn an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) case against Brenton Rickard, after reanalysis of sample taken from the swimmer at the London 2012 Olympics returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF – or ‘positive test’) for low levels of furosemide. It is understood that the...
A powerlifter, surf life saver, and an amateur athlete have been sanctioned for doping offences, the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS) announced. Powerlifter Hendrik Gideon van Zyl was sanctioned with a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving a metabolite of metandienone, an...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics has recently announced that two athletes who tested positive for prohibited substances have received one year reductions to four year bans after admitting anti-doping rule violations (ADRV). Mark Dry was sanctioned with a four year ban after admitting lying about going...
The Integrity Unit of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has found claims that Khalil Al-Mohannadi breached the ITTF Constitution to be false, and announced that there is no basis for further action to be taken against him. Al-Mohannadi was appointed as ITTF Vice President in 2009 and as...
• The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has circulated a new Draft Constitution, which it hopes will be adopted at the IWF Constitution Reform Congress in Doha. Schedule 6.1(k) of the Constitution bans candidates from standing for election to the IWF Executive Board if they have been convicted of an...
Four weightlifters, a swimmer and a track and field athlete have been sanctioned for anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has announced. One of the weightlifters has been sanctioned for competing whilst banned, two due to evidence that they utilised a prohibited substance or method, and...
Mark Dry is fed up with people congratulating him for ‘winning’ his appeal against a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). He didn’t win his appeal. He lost it. He applied for a Case Resolution Agreement, which was turned down by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD). He then...
CJ Ujah, a member of the Great Britain 4x100m team that won a Silver Medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has been provisionally suspended after retuning an adverse analytical finding (AAF – or ‘positive test’) for two prohibited substances. Ujah returned an AAF for Enobosarm (ostarine) and S-23, the...
The International Testing Agency (ITA) has confirmed that Russia cannot claim that all anti-doping tests performed on its athletes at Tokyo 2020 were negative, as Laboratory analysis is ongoing. On 10 August Andrey Zholinsky (Андрей Жолинский) told RIA Novosti that all doping tests performed on Russian athletes at the...
Puma has terminated its contract with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), after a disagreement with the government’s Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development meant that AFN’s athletes at Tokyo 2020 did not appear in Puma kit. The AFN alleges that efforts were made to ship kit to...
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (Крысціна Ціманоўская), who was granted a humanitarian visa by Poland after Belarussian officials withdrew her from Tokyo 2020 and attempted to fly her back to Belarus, is selling a Silver Medal in support of her country’s athletes. Funds raised from the sale of the Silver Medal, which Tsimanouskaya...
• UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have been unable to clarify the details behind four ‘Corrective Actions’ that WADA has instructed UKAD to implement, three of which are judged ‘Critical’. ‘The Corrective Actions refer to procedural aspects of our operations’, explained a UKAD spokesperson via...
