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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ZDF Sport has refuted allegations that its journalists were duped into reporting allegations of Kenyan doping by unscrupulous individuals in return for financial compensation. In a video (below), the public service TV broadcaster filmed two Kenyan national team members injecting erythropoietin (EPO) in the off season, and published a...
Snixer Sports has sent a legal notice to the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), after the body terminated its rights agreement with the company earlier this month, citing integrity concerns and failure to pay rights fees. In a statement sent to The Sports Integrity Initiative, the New Delhi based company...
Filippo Magnini is appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the Italian national anti-doping prosecutor’s (PNA) decision to reject his appeal against a four year ban. In May, the PNA rejected Magnini’s appeal against a four year ban, issued in November 2018 to the Italian swimmer...
Athletics Kenya has alleged that a letter published by journalists suggesting that its officials could ‘secure freedom’ for athletes accused of doping is a forgery. The letter was part of a video (below) published by German broadcaster ZDF, in which it alleged to have filmed two national team members...
• The Australian Football League (AFL) has confirmed an additional potential violation by Willie Rioli of its Anti-Doping Code, after the West Coast Eagles reported an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a metabolite of cannabis on 5 September. Rioli was provisionally suspended after a 20 September sample suggested that...
A Russian regional commission of inquiry into allegations that Chuvash Republic (Чува́шская Респу́блика) officials assisted in covering up use of blood transfusions by a sports school is nearing completion. Yuri Ganus (Юрия Гануса), Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), told L’Equipe that the agency’s own investigations had...
The Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) today approved the recommendation of the IAAF Taskforce to continue the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF), whose athletes will not be able to compete under a Russian flag at the Doha 2019 IAAF World Championships. Rune Andersen,...
On reading the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Annual Report, a sentence jumped out at me. It reads: ‘the Russian authorities, having accepted responsibility for the institutionalised doping programme…’. It is on page 34 (PDF below), for those that are interested. The reason that I have a problem with that...
Portuguese prosecutors have charged Rui Pinto, understood to be behind the Football Leaks disclosures that prompted investigations into a number of clubs, officials and businessmen connected to football, with 147 offences. Portugal’s Ministry of Public Prosecution announced that under Operation Cyberduna, charges have been brought against two defendants for...
Issues with doping in rugby union, particularly in the youth game, have been highlighted by the 2018/19 Annual Report produced by the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS). Of the 25 sports tested by SAIDS during the year, over 100 tests were only carried out in three...
Georg Preidler has been charged with fraud due to use of blood doping and growth hormones from the 2017 Giro d’Italia until his 3 March 2019 confession to Austrian police, reports the Austrian Press Agency (APA). The Austrian cyclist was sanctioned with a four year ban in July for...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has halved a four year sanction issued to Roman Balandin (Баландина Романа) in April, after the basketball player returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for meldonium in April 2017. The decision means that the 22 year old is free to return to...
• Carina Horn has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for Ibutamoren and LGD-4033, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) confirmed. Horn is the first female South African to run under 11 seconds in the 100m, with a...
Snixer Sports has refuted the Afghanistan Cricket Board’s (ACB) reasons for terminating its rights agreement with the New Delhi based company and postponing the second season of the ACB’s T20 Premier League until 2020. The ACB argued that Snixer Sports had failed to pay the complete rights fee for...
Alysia Montaño is to receive two Bronze Medals at a 30 September medal reallocation ceremony at the Doha 2019 IAAF World Championships, the US middle distance runner confirmed on Instagram. Montaño placed fourth in the 800m at the Daegu 2011 IAAF World Championships and at the 800m in the...
