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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Husain Al-Musallam has been nominated as the Asian Amateur Swimming Federation’s (AASF) candidate to replace Julio Maglione as President of the international swimming federation (FINA), and has been backed by the African swimming confederation (CANA), reports Swimming World. Al-Musallam has been Director General of the Olympic Council of Asia...
This week, footballer Mamadou Sakho won a four year battle against the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which alleged that he had taken a prohibited substance. Under a strict reading of the 2016 Code in place at the time, Sakho didn’t return an AAF for a prohibited substance. He didn’t...
Ski coach and former Olympian Aivar Rehemaa has been provisionally suspended by the Estonian anti-doping agency (EAD), after evidence suggested he had worked with Mati Alaver, a former national ski coach sanctioned for doping. Article 2.10 of the World Anti-Doping Code prevents anyone subject to the rules of an...
Bibugul Menlibayeva has been sanctioned with a two year ban, after a sample she gave at the 10th Asian swimming federation (AASF) on 25 September 2019 returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for methylhexanamine (5-methylhexan-2-amine). The AASF Championships, held in Bengaluru, India, was a qualifying event for the Tokyo...
Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) has announced bans issued to athletes competing in Athletics, Baseball and to people not affiliated with a sporting federation. It has also provisionally suspended a rally driver and a sitting volleyball player who returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs). Middle distance runner Yassin El...
International football players’ union FIFPro has questioned life bans issued by the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA), alleging they were issued solely using betting data and without offering the accused a chance to be heard. ‘We are concerned that players are being sanctioned on the basis of reports of...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will today begin its hearing into 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. The closed hearing will conclude on Thursday 5 November....
Jérôme Valcke, the former Secretary General of FIFA, has been sentenced to a 120 day suspended prison term after the Swiss Federal Criminal Court today found him guilty of document forgery. He was also ordered to reimburse FIFA €1.75 million, which included a €500,000 down payment on a property...
About three years ago, former athlete Jonas Plass had a good idea. Athletes already track their location through applications such as Strava and Garmin, so why not utilise GPS technology to simplify ‘whereabouts’ requirements for athletes? The PARADISE Project planned to indicate an athlete’s rough location to a Doping...
Russia’s Ministry of Sport is participating in an experimental State project entitled GosTech (ГосТех), designed to transfer all Russian State departments onto a single online IT platform. GosTech will allow Russian State departments to communicate with businesses and citizens directly, rather than through announcements made via their internet sites....
Four Russian athletes have been sanctioned for doping, including a five time Russian weightlifting champion whose third doping sanction will mean that she will have served 18 years in bans – longer than her professional career. Amina Maskhadova (Амина Масхадова) has been sanctioned with an eight year ban for...
An Interim Report into doping in weightlifting has discovered a gap in anti-doping rules that allows ‘clean’ doping samples to be destroyed three months after they are taken. Under Article 6.5 of the World Anti-Doping Code, the anti-doping organisation (ADO) in charge of results management is responsible for sample...
Russia is hosting a two day meeting of the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNESCO Convention against Doping in Sport in Moscow, which ends today. “This year will forever go down in world history”, said Oleg Matytsin (Олег Матыцин), Russia’s Minister of Sport, in...
Witold Bańka, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has indicated that the agency may consider an appeal against a Sport Resolutions Decision to clear Salwa Eid Naser of two anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) based on ‘whereabouts’ violations. Under Article 13.1.3 of the World Anti-Doping Code, WADA has a...
Investigators in the United Kingdom and the United States have found that computer hackers working for the main intelligence directorate of the Russian military (GRU) instigated sophisticated campaigns designed to disrupt the PyeongChang 2018 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted six GRU operatives for...
