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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• Gennady Alyoshin (Геннадию Алёшину) and Robert Popov (Роберту Попову), the former Deputy Chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the Russian Athletics Federation’s (RusAF) anti-doping coordinator, have been arrested on charges of embezzlement, reports Russian State news agency TASS. It is understood that the arrests were made...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has published ten questions that parties will be asked to consider in deciding if World Athletics’ ‘DSD Regulations’ contravene Caster Semenya’s human rights. In November last year, the South African 800m Olympic Champion began an appeal to the ECHR, arguing that the...
• Yana Sizikova has been arrested and detained at the French Open as part of a French investigation into match-fixing. ‘It can be assumed that this is a continuation of a story that began in October last year’, read a statement from the Russian Tennis Federation (ФТР), referring to...
• UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has ‘paused’ its proceedings against Dr. Richard Freeman pending the outcome of his High Court appeal against a March Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) Decision to remove him from the Medical Register. The MPTS found the former doctor to British Cycling and Team Sky guilty...
Athletes who tested positive for low levels of six diuretics can apply for the elimination of bans, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed. Under Technical Letter 24, which came into force on 1 June, positive tests for acetazolamide, bumetanide, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, torasemide, and triamterene should not be treated...
• Julius Bär will pay US$79.7 million to enter a Deferred Prosecution Agreement to settle a FIFA related investigation by the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the Swiss bank confirmed yesterday. The agreement with the DoJ was originally announced in November last year, but hadn’t been finalised. Swiss authorities...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will issue a Decision regarding Sun Yang’s retrial before the end of June reports AFP, however guidance issued by the Chinese swimming federation appears geared to accommodate him in the Tokyo 2020 team, should he be cleared to compete. The World Anti-Doping...
• Asbel Kiprop, who is currently serving a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving erythropoietin (EPO), has told The Standard that he will challenge Athletics Kenya’s ban on preventing those who have served a doping ban from representing the country. The 1,500m runner and three times...
Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal (TNA) will hear a case alleging that Elena Gaddoni is guilty of an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving acetazolamide on 4 June. The Italian mountain bike marathon champion has been provisionally suspended since 15 February, when she returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for the...
Russia’s Ministry of Sport remains involved with the UNESCO Convention Against Doping in Sport and will host a June meeting of a UNESCO fund designed to eliminate doping in sport in Moscow. This is despite a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Decision banning Russian politicians from attending major...
By allowing a sample collection bottle to be purposefully smashed during a 2018 doping test, Sun Yang is guilty of an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). Just as the Chinese swimming star was guilty of another ADRV four years earlier for using medication containing Trimetazidine. But is he guilty of...
Former World Champion shooter Péter Sidi has been implicated in sabotaging team mate István Péni into reporting an adverse analytical finding (AAF) at the March 2021 World Cup in New Delhi. The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) cleared Péni on 20 May, after he reported an AAF for furosemide...
Kazuto Ioka has been cleared by the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), after an 18 May Report from its independent Ethics Committee found that it was impossible to determine the presence of prohibited substances in his sample. In late April, reports emerged that the four weight world champion had returned...
Today and tomorrow, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will host its Executive Committee and Foundation Board meetings, and governance reform is top of the agenda. The US Office for National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) hit the nail on the head when it recommended that the Olympic Movement step away...
Heiki Nabi is seeking a hearing before the Estonian Anti-Doping Disciplinary Commission so that the Greco-Roman wrestler stands a chance of competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Nabi, a 2016 World Champion and Silver medalist at the London 2012 Olympics, was provisionally suspended in February following an adverse analytical...
