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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The Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has dismissed María Guadalupe (Lupita) González Romero’s claim that her adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a metabolite of trenbolone was caused by contaminated meat, concluding that the Mexican racewalker forged documents in an attempt to prove her case....
The Swiss public prosecutor’s office (Bundesanwaltschaft) is to hold a media conference at 3:30pm (CET) today, where it is expected to announce if it will pursue criminal charges against FIFA President Gianni Infantino. In November last year, the Swiss canton of Haut-Valais appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether...
The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has decided to relegate FC Vereya from the country’s First to its Second Division, after receiving information from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that it has been involved in match-fixing. ‘The BFU received information from UEFA’s integrity office about the illegal financing...
• The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has appointed Amanda Hudson of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) as Director of Education. Hudson is a member of the WADA Education Committee chaired by Ed Moses, who alleged that the WADA Foundation Board told him to “shut up” at a meeting. WADA denied the...
A change in the attitude of governing bodies to how they approach doping, gambling, racism and homophobia is needed if sport is to make progress in tackling these problems, heard delegates at the Sport Resolutions 2019 Conference in London today. Delegates heard that lack of athlete ‘buy in’ to...
Yesterday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an amended version of the Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification (Athletes with Differences of Sex Development), promulgated by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The CAS Panel dismissed Semenya’s requests for Arbitration, ruling that her legal team had...
Marathon World Record holder Paula Radcliffe fears that women’s sport will be damaged unless the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upholds the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) Differences of Sex Development (DSD) Regulations on Wednesday, when it is due to announce its verdict regarding Caster Semenya’s challenge...
The 2017/18 Annual Report of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) illustrates the extraordinary work that has been carried out in order to reform attitudes towards doping within Russia. Reforms include a complete replacement of all Doping Control Officers (DCOs) and chaperones; an increase in testing; and huge strides made...
• Sport Ireland spent over €1 million conducting 1,112 tests (€906.5 per test) to return one anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) during 2018, which involved a four month ban issued to a boxer for use of cannabis. Sport Ireland approved 24 therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) in 2018, the most common sport...
A coach has become the first Russian to be charged with inducing athletes to use banned substances in sport under Russia’s Criminal Code. A doctor has also been banned from working with athletes for recommending use of meldonium, which features on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Prohibited List, and...
Asbel Kiprop, Kenya’s Gold Medal winner in the 1,500m at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, has been sanctioned with a four year ban after failing to explain how recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) ended up in his sample. The full decision (PDF below) reveals that an assistant doping control officer (ADCO), Simon...
Athletes lack the tools to prove that they are ‘clean’, heard delegates on the final day of the Partnership for Clean Competition’s (PCC) 2019 Conference, despite anti-doping rules which consider them guilty unless they can prove they are innocent. Athletes also lack jurisprudence to defend themselves when accused of...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is now 20 years old, and was formed largely as a response to the Festina affair, which brought doping into the public eye. The theory was that a single set of harmonised rules overseen by an international and independent agency would end the inconsistency...
Anti-doping governance has become a self-sufficient bubble that is resistant to change, heard delegates on the first day of the fifth Partnership for Clean Competition’s (PCC) biennial conference, which is taking place from April 16-18 in London – its first time to venture outside of the United States. Delegates...
The International Testing Agency (ITA) has denied that by signing agreements with national anti-doping organisations (NADOs), it is undermining the current structure of anti-doping. Over 10 NADOs have now signed agreements for the ITA to manage aspects of their testing programmes, as well as numerous international federations. On 21...
