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 Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has confirmed that Cyrus Rutto has been provisionally suspended after being charged with an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). The AIU’s list of provisional suspensions reveals that the Kenyan distance runner has been charged with use...
Russian race walker Sergey Bakulin (бакулин васильевич) has been charged with a second doping offence, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced. The list of provisional suspensions on the AIU’s internet site reveals that Baulkin has been charged with ‘use of a...
Eleven Italians including a masters rower, a wheelchair tennis athlete and an u23 cyclist, were subject to anti-doping proceedings during March, according to announcements issued by Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia). Five athletes were sanctioned for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), five were provisionally suspended, and one had...
The Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has closed its investigation into whether Sebastian Coe knew about allegations that Russian athletes were being extorted in return for covering up positive drug tests prior to December 2014, which Coe denied in a letter to the Culture,...
On 16-18 April, for the first time ever, the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) will bring the fifth edition of its biennial conference to London. The event includes heavyweight speakers from the world of anti-doping, including former CEO of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) David Howman, who now heads...
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has appointed the non-profit Sports Arbitration Centre (Спортивная Арбитражная Палата), founded by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in 2004, as the country’s permanent arbitral body to deal with sporting disputes including doping, and disputes between athletes, clubs, and sporting federations. The Sports Arbitration Centre website...
The Swiss Federal Tribunal today published its reasoning behind its 4 March decision to reject an appeal from Paolo Guerrero against a 14 month suspension imposed by the international federation of football associations (FIFA) and upheld at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Both the Swiss Federal Tribunal...
• The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that three weightlifters have been provisionally suspended after returning adverse analytical findings (AAFs). The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) retests of a sample given at the London 2012 Olympics by Florin Croitoru returned an AAF for dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, metenolone and stanozolol. The IWF...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has charged Kseniya Savina and her husband and coach, Aleksei Savin, with tampering and complicity. An AIU statement on Twitter (below) reveals that Russian middle distance runner Savina is already subject to a provisional suspension from...
Drug Free Sport New Zealand (DFSNZ) has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), reports Stuff.co.nz, after the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand (STNZ) announced that a one year sanction would be issued to a recreational athlete, expiring 3 October 2019. Athlete XYZ was sanctioned...
A police officer who shared a video showing the arrest of Austrian skier Max Hauke during the doping raid at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Seefeld on 28 February has been fined, reports Sport24. The officer involved must pay €500 in compensation to Hauke, in addition to a...
• A B sample taken from Chilliboy Ralepelle has confirmed an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for Zeranol, reports The South African. It is understood that the hooker for the Sharks South African rugby union franchise requested the opening of the B sample, after his A sample reported an AAF...
Is it fair for a ‘man’ to compete against a ‘woman’? This is one of the most polarising questions in sport at the moment. The emotion that this question generates has sometimes obfuscated any chance of rational debate about what it is that is being regulated and why. This...
Yesterday, the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) held a meeting in Oslo with the Task Force appointed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to reassess its progress in fulfilling the two remaining requirements for reinstatement of its athletes into international competition. The IAAF had also asked RusAF for...
• Hsu Shu-ching (許淑淨) of Taiwan was issued with a three year ban in January 2018 after retuning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a prohibited substance at the end of 2017, the weightlifter confirmed in a statement on Facebook (see below). The Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) did...
