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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• Two Italian cyclists have been provisionally suspended after returning adverse analytical findings for prohibited substances, Italy’s anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) has announced. Emiliano Zara has been provisionally suspended after returning an AAF for clenbuterol at the 13th Trophy of Meduna di Livenza on 30 August; and a minor...
Dentsu provided over $6 million in financial support to Tokyo’s successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics, whilst also holding a marketing contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), reports Reuters. Dentsu executive Kiyoshi Nakamura told investigators that his company was an IOC marketing partner of the IOC at...
Over seventy percent of the 26 National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) proceedings that were resolved in the UK doing 2019/20 involved the provision of free legal advice to athletes, Sport Resolutions’ Annual Report has revealed. Sport Resolutions operates the UK’s independent National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP), a panel of 29 experts,...
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has failed to utilise one of the most effective tools in anti-doping as much as other national anti-doping organisations (NADOs), despite the numerous drug scandals that have plagued British and international sport over the past decade. UKAD has yet to retest a single doping sample belonging...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) spent US$1.6 million on investigations into claims of intimidation by two senior athlete members of staff, despite neither of them supporting or participating in WADA’s investigations, the agency’s 2019 Annual Report has revealed. WADA’s investigations into claims by Beckie Scott and Ed Moses that...
A 21 year old cyclist has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for two prohibited substances at the Giro dell’Emilia, part of the Italian u23 Road Championships. Luca Colnaghi returned an AAF for Andarine and Enobosarm (Ostarine), Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) announced. ‘These...
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said that it had already implemented two key anti-doping reform points highlighted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its recent Executive Board meeting. The IOC said that the IWF needed to ensure the independence of its anti-doping system beyond the end of its...
Michael Jennings of Parramatta Eels has been provisionally suspended after a 21 September anti-doping test performed by Sport Integrity Australia returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for LGD-4033 (Lingradol) and Ibutamoren, Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) has announced. “I am totally against any form of cheating in sport and...
Andrea del Nista, a Sporting Director of the Altopack Team, has also been sanctioned with an eight year ban, Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) announced. Del Nista was sanctioned for administration or attempted administration of a prohibited substance or method to an athlete; complicity; failure to cooperate; and...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has cut a lifetime ban issued by FIFA to Kwesi Nyantakyi for breaches of its Code of Ethics to 15 years. The former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) filed an appeal against FIFA’s lifetime ban on 17 December 2018, and...
It still sounds fantastical. That Russia engineered a sample swapping system within the official anti-doping Laboratory at the Sochi 2014 Olympics, the aim of which was to allow its ‘protected’ athletes to dope unimpeded. Irrespective of whether or not you accept the evidence that such a scheme took place,...
Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) and New South Wales Police are investigating, after a report by The Australian claimed that Sam Burgess had used drugs, was violent against his family, and his South Sydney Rabbitohs club had assisted in a cover up. The newspaper alleges that the club was...
Six international tennis players participated in suspected fixed matches at tournaments in Brazil and Egypt, according to documents released by Melbourne magistrates court to The Age. The players are Sweden’s Christian Lindell; Brazilians Thales Turini, Carlos Severino and Ciao Silva; Egyptian Issam Taweel; and France’s Maxence Broville. Taweel was...
Two footballers from Fiji are to appeal three year doping bans issued by the Fiji Football Association (FFA) by claiming that proper procedures were not followed. Abhay Singh, representing Sala Waqa and Manasa Nawakula, told FBC News that Auztec Medical Labs Ltd., used by the FFA to analyse samples...
• Nicolae Onică has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT) metabolite 4-chloro-18-nor-17b-hydroxymethyl, 17a methyl-5a-androst-13-en-3a-ol, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced. The Moldova-born Romanian won a Gold Medal in the -94kg category at the Bucharest 2018 European Weightlifting Championships and a Bronze medal in...
