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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• Marc-André Lauzon, a member of Canada’s cheerleading squad, has been sanctioned with a four year ban for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) involving GW501516, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) announced. Development of the metabolic modulator was discontinued in 2007, after it was found to cause...
Former footballers Dickson Etuhu and Alban Jusufi have been sanctioned with a five year ban for offering Kyriakos Stamatopoulos a SEK2 million (€182,000) bribe to underperform during a match between AIK and IFK Gothenburg, the Swedish football association (SvFF) announced. The SvFF was postponed the 18 May 2017 match...
FIFA has been asked to implement a roadmap outlining how it will implement its Human Rights Policy into all aspects of its decision making by its Human Rights Advisory Board (HRAB), which indicated frustration at FIFA’s implementation of previous recommendations. Although a FIFA response to the HRAB’s Report indicated...
• Ursula Papandrea Garza, interim President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), is seeking to have President Tamas Ajan removed from its Executive Board, a letter leaked to journalists working for ARD reveals (see tweet below). In the letter, Papandrea accuses Ajan of acting as if he is still...
The Swiss federal prosecutor’s office (Bundesanwaltschaft) has dropped part of its criminal case against Joesph Blatter, former President of the international federation of football associations (FIFA). ‘We confirm that the federal prosecutor’s office has informed the parties that it considers the criminal investigation in the partial factual and reproach...
A superseding indictment unsealed in a Brooklyn Federal Court has charged three new defendants and a sports marketing company with fraud, money laundering and related offences. The charges are in connection to bribes allegedly paid in connection with the TV rights to major football tournaments over 20 years. They...
• The Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA) is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) issued sanctions against it and the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF) last week. The sanctions, which include a ban from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics; a three...
Nazar Kovalenko (Назар Коваленко) has been sanctioned with a three year ban from 9 March 2017, the Ukrainian Athletics Federation (ФЛАУ) announced. The Global List of Ineligible Persons (PDF below), produced by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics reveals that the sanction was due to analysis of...
Vincent Kipsegechi Yator has been sanctioned with a four year ban from 1 October 2019 as the result of prohibited substances prescribed following a February 2018 road traffic accident, which left five dead including fellow distance runner, Francis Kiplagat. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics announced that...
Three of seven Russian athletes found to be working with banned coach Vladimir Kazarin (Владимиром Казариным) have been sanctioned with a one year ban, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) announced. The three were sanctioned with a one year ban under Article 2.10 of the All-Russian Anti-Doping Rules, which covers...
MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after being sanctioned with an 18 month ban despite the international motorcycling federation (FIM) apparently accepting that an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a metabolite of drostanolone was caused by contaminated food. ‘We will...
Haruyuki Takahashi was paid US$8.2 million by the Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee to arrange sponsorship deals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but also to lobby International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to support its bid, reports Reuters. The former Dentsu executive told the news agency that he gave gifts such...
Idaho has become the first US State to ban transgender student athletes from competing in female sports, after Governor Brad Little passed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (PDF below) on 30 March. The Act mandates that athletes competing for teams that fall under the jurisdiction of Idaho educational...
• The Ukraine football association (UAF) has launched an investigation due to concerns that match-fixers are arranging fixtures whilst football is suspended due to Covid-19, reports Die Welt. At present, it is not clear whether players took the field, or whether match-fixers paid off a betting scout to fabricate...
Four Russians issued with doping charges by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics are appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). All of the charges are based on evidence in Richard McLaren’s two Independent Person (IP) Reports for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The first...
