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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• FIFA has sanctioned Alexander Shprygin (Александр Шпрыгин), a former member of the Executive Committee of the Football Union of Russia (FUR), with a two year ban for discrimination and defamation. In a thread on Twitter (below), Shprygin explained that the decision related to an Instagram post (also below)...
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has upheld three bans imposed by Racing Victoria in May last year, after the body found four horse trainers guilty of administering alkalinising agents and/or medication to horses on racedays. The VCAT dismissed appeals by Robert Smerdon (life ban), Stuart Webb (four...
Christian Coleman has stated that he deserves a public apology from the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), after a whereabouts filing failure case went public, leading to misleading media reports stating that he had missed three doping tests. “You can’t get three Missed Tests within a year”, states Coleman in...
• Sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad & Tobago has been provisionally suspended after being charged with Whereabouts Failures by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Under Article 2.4 of the World Anti-Doping Code, an athlete can be sanctioned for ‘any combination of...
Willie Rioli of West Coast Eagles has been provisionally suspended after a 20 August sample suggested that there had been an attempt to substitute his urine, the Australian Football League (AFL) announced yesterday. ‘It is asserted that Rioli’s A sample returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for Urine Substitution being...
• Andressa de Morais, who won a Silver Medal in the discus at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for SARM S22, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has announced. In...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has rejected applications from 18 Russians to compete internationally as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANAs) and has approved applications from a further eleven. As the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) remains suspended by the IAAF, Russian athletes can compete internationally as an ANA if...
European football’s governing body paid €380 million allocated to the Ukrainian football association (FFU) into an offshore account controlled by the owner of Dynamo Kiev, Der Spiegel reports. An investigation into documents provided to the Football Leaks project found that for 15 years (1999 to 2016), UEFA sent money...
Habib Cissé, Legal Advisor to Lamine Diack, former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has been sanctioned with a lifetime ban from athletics for breaches of its Code of Ethics. The IAAF Ethics Board decided not to publish the full reasons for its decision until all...
• Madagascar has withdrawn from this Saturday’s friendly game against the South African national team due to security concerns, following xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa. Madagascar was invited to replace Zambia, which previously announced its withdrawal for the same reason (see below). ‘After consulting with various Malagasay...
Pharmacists in Kenya’s Eldoret/Kapsabet region are understood to be continuing to supply athletes with Erythropoietin (EPO), seven years after the issue was initially uncovered. This raises questions as to whether Kenyan authorities are keen to tackle the situation, or whether the availability of EPO is vital in order to...
Hadi Sror has been withdrawn from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia (7-21 Sept.), after reporting an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for erythropoietin (EPO). Sror was the only Norwegian boxer selected for the Championships. It is understood that the AAF was the result of a...
• The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has sent a briefing note to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) detailing ‘measures to bring RusAF in line with the World Anti-Doping Code’. A RusAF statement said that the need for such a document – which details measures RusAF has taken...
The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) has established a Sports Integrity Unit (SIU), over a year after the island country’s government announced that the SIU would be included in a new Bill aimed at tackling corruption in sport. The Bill was originally drafted in February 2017, but faced passage difficulties...
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has clarified that it didn’t attempt to charge Christian Coleman for a ‘Missed Test’ on 6 June 2018, when a Doping Control Officer (DCO) failed to locate him, because the test attempt was made outside of the allocated 60 minute window. Under the International...
