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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• China has formally criminalised doping in sport. The National People’s Congress voted to adopt Amendment XI to Article 355 of its Criminal Law on Saturday, reports State news agency Xinhua. The amendment, which can be viewed here, criminalises those encouraging athletes to use prohibited substances, as well as...
Equestrian Canada is waiting to hear if it will be able to compete at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, due to a complicated case involving Jumping athlete Nicole Walker. The Canadian equestrian team initially finished fourth at the Lima 2019 PanAmerican Games, but was later bumped down to seventh...
Marathon runner Cornelia ‘Conny’ Köpper has been sanctioned with a ten year ban until 10 December 2030, for trafficking erythropoietin (EPO), Genotropin and testosterone to triathletes; and for possession and use of human albumin and prohibited infusions. The Austrian anti-doping rights commission (ÖADR) found that Köpper had used prohibited...
Analysis of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2018 figures reveals that just 0.62% of anti-doping tests resulted in an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) being asserted against an athlete. A 2015 review of studies examining the prevalence of doping in elite sports by respected anti-doping scientist Olivier de Hon estimates...
The eight year ban imposed on swimmer Sun Yang has been set aside and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will have to rehear the case, after lawyers successfully argued that one of the Arbitrators was biased, confirmed the Swiss Federal Tribunal (Bundesgericht). ‘The Swiss Federal Tribunal’s decision...
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld a two year sanction imposed on Brazilian judoka Rafaela Silva, who won the -57kg category at the Lima 2019 PanAmerican Games. The CAS ruld that Silva couldn’t prove the route of ingestion of anti-asthmatic drug fenoterol, which she had...
The number of samples analysed due to tests commissioned by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) fell by 30% from 1,287 during 2018 to 895 during 2019, according to reports published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). ADAK placed 46th out of 117 national anti-doping organisations (NADOs) in a...
• The Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF – now World Athletics) has sanctioned Ahmad Al Kamali with a six month ban, after finding that gifts of watches given to delegates at the March 2015 Confederation Africaine d’Athletisme (CAA) Congress breached its Code of Ethics....
The World Air Sports Federation (FAI) and the International Federation of Sports Climbing (IFSC) have failed to respond to questions from The Sports Integrity Initiative over whether scheduled World Championships will take place in Russia next year. Yesterday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that Russia may...
Russia’s athletes will be able to compete at the Tokyo 2020 & Beijing 2022 Olympics and the 2022 Qatar World Cup if they can demonstrate that they are ‘clean’, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) handed the country an early Christmas present. The CAS ruling outlines that...
• At 16:00 CET tomorrow, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will announce its Decision regarding the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s (RUSADA) appeal against the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decision to declare it non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code for a four year period. RUSADA was suspended on 9...
The use of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) for cosmetic reasons and in amateur sport has become accepted, a 224 page Report examining the size and seriousness of the doping trade in The Netherlands has highlighted. The Report (PDF below or click here) found that this is in...
Anti-doping organisations may need to compensate for a hematocrit (HCT) variability and HCT concentration bias before Dried Blood Spot (DBS) tests can be used reliably for anti-doping tests, a new Study has highlighted. DBS tests involve various devices that an athlete can place on their finger, heel, or arm....
• Rinaldo Nocentini, a former professional cyclist and holder of the yellow jersey in the 2009 Tour de France, has been sanctioned with a four year ban for use/attempted use of a prohibited substance, Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) announced. “At 41, why would I have rested to...
Five people have been charged with being involved in match-fixing in Swedish football, the country’s public prosecutor has announced. The first case involves a player in Division 3 team Södra Götaland, who on six occasions from April to August 2019 received bribes from a person betting on the team...
