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 Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has disqualified five athletes for doping, one of which tested positive for four prohibited substances and another of which is under 20. An in-competition sample taken from hammer thrower Tatyana Kachegina (Татьяна Качегина) on 28 June returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for meldonium,...
Switzerland’s Federal Department of Justice and Police (EJPD) has confirmed that authorisation has been given to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to initiate proceedings against Russian nationals suspected of having engaged in political espionage in Switzerland. In an email, the EJPD said that the proceedings involved ‘several...
• An employee of the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) in Tromsø has been accused of keeping 2,000 tablets containing prohibited substances in sport, reports iTromsø. It is understood that the 31 year old partnered with a 43 year old to distribute the prohibited substances, which included approximately...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has denied that Chair of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Ed Moses, was told to ‘shut up’ at its May Foundation Board meeting. ‘WADA’s Foundation Board meetings are open to the media and members of the public’, read an email from a WADA spokesperson....
Zane Hopman, a Muay Thai martial arts athlete, has become the 19th person to be sanctioned due to investigations into customers of the NZ Clenbuterol website, receiving a backdated two year ban from 25 September 2017. Interestingly, Hopman accepted the sanction for possession and use or attempted use of...
Edwin Moses, Chairman of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), has alleged that he was told to ‘shut up’ at the May Foundation Board meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). ‘It was only in May, at WADA’s last Foundation Board meeting, that I was told bluntly by various individuals...
Bodybuilding and rugby union reported the highest proportion of anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) in comparison to tests, the Annual Report of the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS) reveals. SAIDS reported that 14 of the 23 tests carried out on bodybuilders during the 1 April 2017 to...
Welsh rugby union player Maredydd Francis has been sanctioned with a four year ban, after UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) rejected his explanation that an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for three types of anabolic steroid was not intended to enhance his performance, but speed up his recovery from an operation. Francis,...
• South Korea’s K-League has announced that it will provide a KRW70 million (€53,600) reward to Lee Han-Saem of Asan Mugunghwa FC for reporting a match-fixing approach. As reported on Monday, Lee was approached by former player Jack Hack-Yong, and attempted to bribe him to receive a red card...
The Russian State Duma has approved at first reading a 2016 Bill designed to introduce fines of between Rub30,000 and Rub50,000 (€400 – €660) for athletes, coaches, doctors, or athlete support personnel responsible for a doping violation that does not constitute a criminal offence. In 2016, Russia criminalised the...
The Landgericht Frankfurt am Main has decided against opening proceedings against Wolfgang Niersbach (pictured), Theo Zwanziger and Horst Schmidt, former Presidents and Secretary General of the German football association (DFB) for tax evasion, reports the Associated Press. All three had been accused of falsifying tax returns in connection with...
Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has charged four former government officials and three former Olympic officials with misappropriation of funds designed to support Kenyan athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics. In a statement posted on Twitter (below), the ODPP outlines that the government set aside...
• France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) has confirmed the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) investigating if Paris Saint Germain’s 3 October 6-1 Champions League victory over Red Star Belgrade was fixed. ‘The case involves people orbiting the Serbian club’, read a statement. An investigation by L’Equipe found...
Kael McEnteer, a rugby league player with Victoria Hunters in the local Wellington Rugby League competition, has become the 18th athlete to be sanctioned as a result of investigations into who bought supplements from an illegal internet site. Thirteen of the sanctioned athletes competed in one of the two...
David Sharpe, Chief Executive of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), has called for an independent investigation into Beckie Scott’s claims that she was treated with disrespect and “bullied” over her opposition to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) reinstatement of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). Scott, the Chair of...
