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 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that Moldovan weightlifter, Artiom Pipa, has been charged with use or attempted use of a prohibited substance. Pipa is already serving a four year ban issued in December 2015, which expires on 21 December 2019. • The Irish Football Association (IFA),...
The decision of five Russian athletes to appeal doping charges issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) may be assisted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) publication of the reasoning behind decisions to either uphold or partially uphold appeals by 39 Russian athletes sanctioned for doping at...
• Belgium’s Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that two people have been arrested and eight have been summoned for questioning by investigators, following three searches carried out in Flanders in relation to its investigation into corruption in football. ‘This series of actions is to be placed in the financial part...
Chelsea and England’s Football Association (FA) are to appeal FIFA sanctions for beaches of its rules on the international transfer of minors, after both were issued with fines and Chelsea was issued with a transfer ban for the next two player registration periods. ‘Chelsea FC categorically refutes the findings...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) began its hearings into a challenge to the International Association of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF) Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification (Athletes with differences of sex development (DSD)) this week. The challenge was launched by South African 800m runner Caster Semenya in June...
• The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Asscoaition of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has provisionally suspended Kenyan distance runner Sarah Chepchirchir, who won the 2017 Tokyo Marathon. The AIU’s list of provisional suspensions revealed that she has been charged with use of a prohibited substance and/or method, based...
On 13 February, a new, international, athlete-led movement named ‘Global Athlete’ launched. The name of the movement was similar to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Global Athlete Forum; its Director General is former WADA Deputy Director General Rob Koehler; it was promoted by WADA’s former Communications Manager Ben Nichols;...
Thailand’s hosting of the 2019 IWF World Championships in Pattaya has been placed under further pressure, after the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced two more adverse analytical findings (AAF) involving athletes it had already provisionally suspended. The AAFs mean that eight Thai weightlifters have been suspended for ten AAFs...
The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has failed to respond to questions about whether it is appropriate to allow Russia’s worst polluting company to sponsor the 2019 Winter Universiade, which takes place from 2-12 March in Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk Nickel, which emits 1.67 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide each year...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has published the 12 decisions to sanction Russian athletes announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last week. The decisions are based on adverse analytical findings (AAFs) following the retesting of samples by the...
Three rugby union players have been sanctioned with bans as a result of ongoing investigations into customers of the Clenbuterol NZ internet site, taking the total to 29 athletes sanctioned, 23 of which are rugby players (21 Union, two League). The website was shut down in May 2017 and...
Two Thai and two Vietnamese weightlifters have been provisionally suspended after returning adverse analytical findings (AAFs) for prohibited substances, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced. The AAFs follow the provisional suspension of four Thai weightlifters in January, and the provisional suspension of two more Thai weightlifters in December last...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) today decided that as Russia will never accept the conclusions of Reports on systemic doping produced by Richard McLaren for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), it will reinstate the Russian Paralympic Committee’s (RPC) membership on 15 March under strict conditions. ‘The RPC’s acceptance of...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed that Russian race walker Anisya Kirdyapkina has been sanctioned with a three year ban, after the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) announced the sanction today. ‘The final award in the procedure CAS 2017/O/5398 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) v. Russian...
A row has developed between Tunisia’s Club Africain and TP Mazembe, after the Tunisian club suggested that food poisoning had played a part in its 8-0 loss to the Congolese club in a 2 February Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League game. On the team’s return from the...
