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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• Questions have been raised about the sporting credentials of Bulgaria’s Minister of Sport, Andrey Kuzmanov (Андрей Кузманов), who is President of the country’s modern pentathlon federation, President of the European Confederation of Modern Pentathlon (ECMP), and a member of the international modern pentathlon federation’s (UIPM) Business Affairs Committee....
Two Bulgarian Sambo athletes have been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for cocaine at in competition tests. Miroslav Debreliev (Мирослав Дебрелиев) and Georgi Gramatikov (Георги Граматиков), both of whom are judoka registered with the International Judo Federation (IJF), were tested on 13 March and AAFs...
A US Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Report (PDF below) recommends that reforms of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) should focus on removing the conflict of interest that gives the Olympic Movement, which WADA regulates, a voting majority. The WADA Executive Committee and Foundation Board are are...
• Amnesty International has urged Qatar to reveal the whereabouts of Malcolm Bidali, an activist supporting the rights of migrant workers, two days after FIFA issued a statement proclaiming that a meeting had ‘clarified facts’ about ‘important progress’ made regarding migrant and human rights. On 12 May, after receiving...
A student who confessed to using a prohibited substance three days after an anti-doping test has been sanctioned with a four year ban, despite that test being negative. Ellis Richards was studying physiotherapy at Cardiff Met and also played rugby union for the University. Events developed as follows: •...
Omar Craddock has been sanctioned with a 20 month ban for two missed tests and a filing failure, under rules that treat three ‘whereabouts’ failures as an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). Athletes that are members of a Registered Testing Pool (RTP) must file information including their overnight location, competition...
• The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has welcomed a Decision from the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) to reject Alex Schwazer’s appeal against a July 2016 ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which sanctioned him with an eight year ban. Schwazer was seeking to suspend the ban...
Twenty six TUE applications were received during the London 2012 Olympics, only slightly less than the 31 received before the start of the Games. Retroactive TUEs are particularly common for salbutamol, due to WADA’s rules only requiring a TUE if certain limits are exceeded. It has recently emerged that...
This week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a four year sanction imposed by the international cycling union (UCI) on André Cardoso, resulting from a positive test for erythropoietin (EPO) back in 2017. The Portuguese cyclist has spent four years and a great deal of money attempting...
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected an appeal from Zelimkhan Khadjiev and the French federation of wrestling and associated disciplines (FFLDA) against a four year ban issued by United World Wrestling (UWW) on 6 July 2020 for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving trimetazidine. Khadjiev...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Alex Schwazer’s application for ‘provisional measures’ that would allow him to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, whilst he appeals an eight year doping ban upheld by the CAS to the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT). It is understood that Schwazer...
An investigation by police and Sport Integrity Australia has led to charges being issued against a former Australian table tennis player for utilising information about fixed table tennis games in Eastern Europe. However, analysis of these tournaments and the sheer number of games and participants involved illustrates that sport...
• Paul Campbell of Miami Marlins has been suspended for 80 games after returning a positive test for dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT or oral Turinabol), the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced. ‘The test detected 10 picograms (10 trillionths of a gram) of this metabolite in my system, an amount...
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has removed Stefan Keller as the Extraordinary Public Prosecutor appointed to investigate criminal charges relating to meetings between Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, and Michael Lauber, the country’s former Federal Prosecutor. On 10 December last year, Kellar issued a press release stating that he...
Norwegian runner Karoline Grøvdal has been denied a women’s 5k road race World Record, after organisers admitted that the course at Maarud in Sør-Odal was 12.5m too short. Grøvdal, a two time Olympian, recorded a time of 14:39 in the 1 May race, beating Beatrice Chepkoech’s official World Record...
