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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Dr. Hidde Haisma of the University of Groningen has developed a gene doping test based on detecting the 0.01% difference between your genes and ‘alien’ genes introduced into the human physiology. “We have demonstrated that it works, but we still have to examine its sensitivity and how easy it...
• The Athlete Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has reiterated that it will push for voting representation on the Foundation Board and Executive Committee of the Agency, in a Summary of Outcomes document (PDF below) published after a 13 November meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. It resolves to...
The Ethics Panel of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) has sanctioned Raj Gaya with a life ban, after finding the former BWF Council member guilty of various corruption offences that defrauded badminton bodies of over US$1 million in funding. In its decision (PDF below), the Ethics Panel found that...
The Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) yesterday approved an IAAF Taskforce recommendation that the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) be maintained until it pays for all costs related to its suspension; and until it receives samples taken from 1,000 Russian athletes between 2012...
A documentary (video below) produced for ARD and research by The Sports Integrity Initiative has revealed further questions over Russia’s commitment to reforming anti-doping. Hajo Seppelt and Nick Butler spoke to Murmansk-based lawyer Andrey Sushko, who presented research indicating that only ten of Russia’s 85 regions have implemented a...
• The Latvian Athletics Union (LVS) has confirmed that Ineta Radēviča has stepped aside as President, after a sample given at the London 2012 Olympics was rested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and resulted in an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for oxandrolone. The AAF was confirmed by the...
Swedish floorball player Mikael Karlsson has reportedly ended his career following an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for cocaine. Anti-Doping Switzerland confirmed that it had opened disciplinary proceedings against Karlsson, who has been provisionally suspended by the Swiss Olympic Committee (SOV) after he returned an AAF for cocaine in October. ...
Sundra Rajoo has resigned as Deputy Chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee after being implicated in an investigation launched by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), FIFA confirmed today. Rajoo earlier resigned as Director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), after he was arrested as part of an investigation...
The Swiss Federal Tribunal has ruled that an appeal (case 4A_560/2018) lodged by FIFA against the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to partially uphold an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is inadmissible, which means the suspension applicable to Paolo Guerrero remains at 14 months. In...
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has stepped aside as President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), the organisation confirmed yesterday. Sheikh Ahmad was the sole candidate for re-election as President of ANOC at its General Assembly, which is currently taking place in Tokyo. ‘The self-suspension from his functions...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has denied rejecting reform proposals (PDF below) put forward by the World Players Association in 2017. ‘WADA did not reject any proposal from the World Players Association (WPA)’, wrote a WADA spokesperson in an email. ‘In fact, we communicated with them on this matter...
The World Anti-Doping Code needs adapting for team sports, whose international federations are well placed to handle the peculiarities particular to their testing programmes, heard delegates at Day Two of the UEFA Anti-Doping Symposium, which took place in London on Friday 23 November. It was argued that strict requirements...
Anti-doping is at a governance and regulatory crossroads and needs to make the right choices if those using the system are not to lose confidence in it, heard delegates at Day One of the 2018 UEFA Anti-Doping Symposium in London yesterday. During the coming year, the draft of the...
A Swiss investigation into whether Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah and three other defendants created fake videos in order to implicate Kuwaiti government officials in a 2014 court case has prompted the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to launch an investigation, resulting in Sheikh Ahmad stepping aside...
• The PGA Tour and Vijay Singh yesterday settled a case involving his suspension on 19 February 2013, after he admitted using ‘deer antler spray’ in a 29 January 2013 Sports Illustrated article. Singh had launched a lawsuit against the PGA Tour, alleging that it failed to contact the...
