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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• Weightlifters from New Zealand have been warned that they could be suspended for two years if they attend training clinics run by British weightlifter Sonny Webster, reports InsideTheGames. UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) sanctioned Webster with a four year ban after he refused an offer to cut his ban in...
A rugby union player and nightclub doorman has been sanctioned with a two year ban by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for a metabolite of cocaine. Daniel Matthews, of Bargoed RFC, argued that his AAF was due to biting his nails, after having come...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has denied that it is behind a requirement for Presidential candidates to be above age of 45, which would exclude its Vice President, Linda Helleland, 41, from standing to replace current President Sir Craig Reedie. Reedie’s mandate is due to expire at the end...
Manchester City and Paris Saint Germain pressured the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) into Settlement Agreements that inflated the value of their sponsorship deals so that they were not found in violation of UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play (CLFFP) Regulations, articles published by journalists working on...
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has announced that four weightlifters and four track and field athletes have been sanctioned, seven with four year bans and one with a two year ban. Four year sanctions were announced against four weightlifters the day before the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships...
Amateur rugby league player Hayden Blackley has become the 20th person to be sanctioned as a result of investigations into customers of online steroid supplier NZ Clenbuterol. Drug Free Sport New Zealand (DFSNZ) alleged that he bought a 20ml bottle of the substance on 13 February 2015, and used...
Two Cypriot football players have alleged that they were injected with performance enhancing drugs by their clubs, which resulted in them developing heart problems, prematurely ending their career. A statement from the Pancyprian footballers association (PASP) named the players as Panayiotis Frangeskou, 27, and Panayiotis Loizides, 23, both of...
A Spanish court has released Andreu Subies, Vice President of the Spanish football association (RFEF), after he was arrested earlier this week, reports El País. Subies was arrested on Tuesday as as part of Operación Soule, an investigation into corruption allegations against former President of the RFEF, Ángel María...
Mohamed ‘Banka’ Issa, who was voted the Tanzania young player of the year in 2016/17, has been sanctioned with a 14-month ban after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for marijuana. A series of tweets by the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) revealed that Issa tested positive during a 9...
Calls to reform the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were dismissed as misplaced by its Director General, Olivier Niggli, who said that National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) and athletes should be talking to their partners about reform rather than publicly attacking “the driver of the car”. Niggli argued that as WADA’s...
Sisters Tasha and Jordan Schwikert-Warren have filed lawsuits against USA Gymnastics (USAG), the US Olympic Committee (USOC) and former USAG doctor Larry Nassar for enabling and failing to prevent the unlawful abuse of young women in their care. The lawsuits are the first concerning Nassar to seek damages under...
The Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has banned Kwesi Nyantakyi, former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), for life for breaches of its Code of Ethics. Nyantakyi resigned as President of the GFA in June, after he and other football officials were accused of accepting corrupt...
• Natalya Ivoninskaya, a Kazakh 100m hurdler that competed at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics, has been provisionally suspended following retests of samples by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations said that a retest of a...
International player union FIFPro has highlighted that the gender gap in terms of prize money paid to teams competing in the men’s and women’s World Cup has increased, despite it doubling for teams competing in next year’s Women’s World Cup in France. The FIFA Council recently announced that the...
Alexandr Godovanyuk, a Kazakh water polo player, has been sanctioned with a four year ban after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, the international swimming federation (FINA) announced. Godovanyuk is listed on the 2018 Asian Games internet site as a member of the Kazakh water polo team,...
