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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• A footballer, rugby union and basketball player have been sanctioned for doping offences, reports Italy’s national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia). Tiziano Andrei, who plays for Serie C club Carrarese Calico, has been sanctioned with a two year ban; Nicola Breglia, who plays for Rugby Viadana 1970 in Italy’s...
Figures released by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) under its 2017 Monitoring Program suggest that the use of opioid-based painkiller tramadol and glucocorticoids (corticosteroids used to treat inflammatory allergies) is prevalent in cycling. The figures (PDF below) relate to testing data for substances that are do not feature on...
Czech national team footballer, Jakub Jankto, who plays for Italian club Udinese, has been issued with a reprimand due to an argument with a doping control official (DCO) after a match against Lazio. The Italian national anti-doping agency (NADO Italia) ruled that he had violated Articles 3.3 of the...
• Slovenian footballer Amedej Vetrih has been sanctioned with a six month ban after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for higenamine, the Slovenian anti-doping agency (SLOADO) reports. Vetrih, who plays for Slovenian club NK Domžale, tested positive on 14 April, and successfully argued that his AAF was due...
Police have arrested nine people after an investigation into plans to construct a new stadium for AS Roma. ‘The Police Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Rome are giving effect to a protective order issued by Rome magistrates against nine persons (six imprisoned on remand, and three under...
• The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has met today to discuss the governance of the International Biathlon Union (IBU). After discussion, the IOC EB members decided unanimously to suspend all direct financial payments from the IOC to the IBU until: i. The election of the...
The international boxing association (AIBA) has defended its decision to award the 2019 Men’s World Championships to Sochi, after the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that as a result of the decision, AIBA be declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code. At the WADA Executive...
• Iran’s national anti-doping agency (IRAN NADO) has sanctioned three athletes with four year bans and one athlete with a six month ban. Weightlifter Milad Rezaei (میلاد رضایی) was sanctioned with a four year ban after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for methandienone; Sprinter Ali Arzhang Nezhad (علی...
Parma Calico 1913, newly promoted to Italy’s Serie A, has denied allegations that text messages sent by two of its players at the conclusion of last season indicated their involvement in match-fixing. ‘The explanation of the players Emanuele Calaiò and Fabio Ceravolo was heard yesterday afternoon by the Federal...
The Ghanaian government has dissolved the Ghanaian Football Association (GFA), after its President and other football officials were accused of accepting corrupt payments following a two year investigation by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. ‘Having regard to the widespread nature of the apparent rot involving top officials of the GFA,...
Prosecutors have asked a Paris court to sentence eight men to prison terms for match-fixing, reports AFP. The accused reportedly includes Jean-Marc Conrad and Serge Kasparian, former owners of Nîmes Olympique, which has recently been promoted to Ligue 1. In March 2015, France’s football league (LFP) found that Stade...
A new qualification system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics which requires weightlifters to have competed in six International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) sanctioned events between 1 November 2018 and 30 April 2020 has been challenged at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) by the Weightlifting Federation of the Republic...
Investigators from the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) are to meet with the makers of a documentary which alleged that Sri Lankan cricket test match pitches were manipulated for betting purposes, reports The Cricket Paper. In a documentary (video below), a former cricketer told Al Jazeera investigators...
• The international swimming federation (FINA) has clarified that all Matthew Willenbring’s individual results at the 2017 World Juniors in Indianapolis were cancelled via a 23 March decision, and the listing of his 100m freestyle bronze on the FINA website was an omission which has now been corrected. On...
Four athletes have been provisionally suspended after testing positive for THC (cannabis), reports Italy’s national anti-doping organisation (NADO Italia). Volleyball star Jiří Kovář was provisionally suspended after testing positive for a metabolite of THC at a competition hosted in Perugia on 6 May, reports NADO Italia. American basketball player...
