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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Margarita Pakhnotskaya (Маргарита Пахноцкая), Deputy Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), told Deutsche Welle that data retrieved by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) from the Moscow Laboratory may have been manipulated to protect athletes promoted to senior positions within Russian sport. The suggestion was also made by...
• Former national ski team coach Mati Alaver has been charged with a criminal offence regarding doping four athletes between 2016 and 2019, the Estonian State Prosecutor’s Office announced. The Office began investigations in March, after Estonian skiers Karel Tammjärv, Andreas Veerpalu, and Algo Kärp were implicated in Operation...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed that today’s meeting with Russian authorities has been postponed to allow WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations department more time to evaluate their response to WADA’s 31 questions about discrepancies in the data retrieved from the Moscow Laboratory. The situation has become complex, and...
Ghanaian authorities are still investigating whether a politician’s call for a journalist to be physically assaulted resulted in his murder. Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, who helped to expose the huge scale of match-fixing in African football, was assassinated on 16 January after Kennedy Agyapong, a Member of Parliament, called for...
Making remedies effective for athletes abused by sport was the major theme at Day Two of Play The Game 2019 in Colorado Springs. The main talking point of the day was an extraordinary exchange between film maker Bryan Fogel, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Vitaly Stepanov and Yuliya Stepanova...
Athletes need empowering to end abuse in sport, was the main message from the opening day of Play The Game 2019 in Colorado Springs. Whilst legislation allowing athletes to take legal action against abusers is an important part of this, delegates also heard that sport should welcome moves for...
• An Indian fencer has been sanctioned with a four year ban after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for androstanolone, which he attempted to blame on male impotence drug Viagra, India’s National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA India) has announced (below). After offering a number of other excuses, Chunni Lal...
Austrian cross country skier Johannes Dürr has been sanctioned with a life ban for a number of anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), the Austrian Anti-Doping Legal Commission (ÖADR) has announced (click here to download statement). Dürr was provisionally suspended in March, after confessing to use of blood transfusions, erythropoietin (EPO),...
Yuri Ganus, the Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), has denied that the Agency was involved in manipulations of the Moscow Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), after Russian media suggested it may have been involved. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed that it had received a response...
Brazilian swimmer Gabriel da Silva Santos has been sanctioned with a one year ban, despite an international swimming federation (FINA) panel accepting that his positive test for clostebol was due to contact with his brother, who was using it to treat a skin irritation. Santos presented evidence that he...
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has confirmed that a tribunal will reconvene to hear a medical malpractice hearing against Dr. Richard Freeman from 28 October to 20 December. The former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor will answer allegations that he ordered Testogel to administer to athletes; inappropriately...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) used decreases in the performance of athletes medically harmed because of its Regulations on gender to support its DSD Regulations. Four young athletes, who were 18, 20, 20 and 21, were told that they needed to lower their testosterone levels in order...
Alberto Salazar. To older readers, the name perhaps conjures up images of a Bond villain circling a shark-infested pool. To younger readers, a connection to Salazar Slytherin, founder of the the Hogwarts House where all dark wizards began their descent. News articles have portrayed Salazar as a ‘Doping Cheat’....
• The Pan American Sports Organisation (PASO) has confirmed that 15 athletes have returned adverse analytical findings (AAFs) at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, 0.72% of the 2,095 tests taken in connection with the Games. PASO said that 1,843 urine tests (1,348 in competition and 495 outside of...
• Austrian triathlete Emanuel Marcel Moser has been sanctioned with an eight year ban. ‘Taking into account the evidence presented and the findings of the criminal police in connection with Operation Aderlass, the ÖADR found that Emanuel Marcel Moser was guilty of violating anti-doping rules’, read a statement from...
