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 Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has sanctioned Ibrahim Chaibou, a former international referee, with a life ban after finding him guilty of accepting bribes. Chaibou refereed at two 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification games in Africa during 2009, as well as two international friendlies in both...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council will be unable to recommend that the Russian Athletics Federation’s (RusAF) membership be restored at its March IAAF Council meeting, meaning its athletes will remain suspended from international competition. This is because the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has outlined that it...
The Union Cyclise Internationale (UCI) has dropped an investigation into whether Tosh Van der Sande had committed an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), accepting that an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for low levels of prednisolone was caused by Sofrasolone, a nasal spray. The Prohibited List of the World Anti-Doping Agency...
Four female Thai weightlifters, including an Olympic champion, have been provisionally suspended after returning adverse analytical findings (AAFs, or positive tests) for similar substances from samples given at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in November last year. An International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) statement confirmed that no AAFs were recorded...
Alexander Zubkov has stepped down as President of the Russian Bobsled Federation after being sanctioned with a two year ban by the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (ISBF). In its decision (PDF below), the IBSF outlined that Zubkov had been sanctioned as a result of urine being substituted in...
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) decision not to re-suspend the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), despite Russia missing a 31 December deadline to provide access to data held at the Moscow Laboratory, underlines that its focus is on sanctioning athletes and not officials. WADA’s Executive Committee followed the recommendation of...
• Joko Driyono will be Acting Chairman after Edy Rahmayadi resigned as Chairman of the Indonesian football association (PSSI). “I have resigned not because I am irresponsible, but because I am responsible”, said Rahmayadi in a statement. Late last year, the PSSI banned second division club PS Mojokerto Putra...
Russia’s Ministry of Sport this morning posted a video (below) from Russia 24 accusing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of knowing that its athletes were not doping, and hiding the evidence. The post (this link) was quickly amended to be replaced by a video in which Pavel Kolobkov, Russia’s...
Pavel Kolobkov, Russia’s Minister of Sport, has said that Russian authorities have fulfilled the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) requirements regarding access to the data and samples held at the Moscow Laboratory. “I can confidently say that we have fulfilled all the WADA requirements in accordance with our agreements and...
Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, a journalist who worked with Anas Aremeyaw Anas to expose corruption in Ghanaian football, has been shot dead. FIFA banned former Ghana FA President and FIFA Council member Kwesi Nyantakyi for life last year, after he was filmed accepting corrupt payments as part of the two...
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has sanctioned two athletes for doping, and has provisionally suspended two more. Kenyan distance runner Lucy Kabuu Wangui will lose her first place at the Milan Marathon, after a sample taken at that race returned an...
In September 2016, illegal hacking group Fancy Bears published documents containing a number of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) held by Sir Bradley Wiggins. Evidence later emerged that British Cycling spent £1,263.90 to send Women’s road coach Simon Cope to France for one day to deliver a package to Wiggins...
Janez (Jani) Brajkovič has been sanctioned with a ten month ban due to an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for methylhexanamine from a sample taken on 18 April during the Tour of Croatia, which the Slovenian cyclist has blamed on a meal supplement. Brajkovič’s ban will expire on 1 June,...
Tsunekazu Takeda, President of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), is being investigated by French police as part of a probe into alleged corruption related to Japan’s successful bid to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, reports Reuters. It is understood that France’s Parquet National Financier is investigating a payment made...
On Friday, a Russian court rejected an appeal from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) against a November Moscow Court ruling that a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to uphold an International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to disqualify Alexander Zubkov from the Sochi 2014 Olympics, where he took...
