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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Kiefer Ravena, a basketball player who competes for the national team, tested positive for three prohibited substances on 25 February and is serving an 18-month suspension, the Philippines basketball association (Samahang Basketbol NG Pilipinas) has confirmed. ‘The federation received a communique from FIBA last March 19 about the results...
Belgian police have arrested 13 people as part of an investigation into a Belgian/Armenian criminal organisation, which it said has been corrupting Belgian tennis players competing in Futures and Challenger tennis events since 2014. The investigation was supported by Europol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which said...
• Athletics Kenya’s Rio 2016 delegation manager, Michael Rotich, has been charged with conspiracy to promote the use of prohibited substances in sport, reports The Star. The Kenyan newspaper reports that Rotich utilised St. Luke’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Eldoret to supply prohibited substances to athletes. This is the same...
The international federation of swimming associations (FINA) has cancelled three US relay results at the 2017 World Juniors due to an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) by Matthew Willenbring, but has allowed him to keep* a bronze won in the 100m freestyle. The cancelled relay results include a gold won...
David Howman, former Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has cast doubt on race walking Gold medals won by Valeriy Borchin and Olga Kaniskina at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Howman said that a train transporting pre-Games samples taken by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to...
• The Japan Swimming Federation (JSF) has confirmed that former backstroke World Champion Junya Koga has been provisionally suspended, after reporting adverse analytical findings (AAFs) for LGD-4033 and SARM S-22. The JSF said that the international swimming federation (FINA) imposed a provisional suspension on Koga on 15 May, and...
Frankfurt’s Public Prosecutor (Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt am Main) has filed charges against former Presidents of the German football association (DFB), Theo Zwanzinger and Wolfgang Niersbach, its former General Secretary Horst R. Schmidt, and former FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi, reports Bild. The charges are understood to relate to a €6.7...
The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has disqualified three athletes for four years and one athlete for two years for anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), it announced yesterday. Hurdlers Andrei Gapon (Андрея Гапона) and Denis Chernyaev (Дениса Черняева) were sanctioned with a four year ban from 20 February 2018 for refusing...
• The Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives will hear evidence from USA Volleyball, USA Swimming, the US Olympic Committee, USA Taekwondo, USA Gymnastics, and the US Centre for SafeSport in a hearing entitled ‘Examining the Olympic Community’s Ability to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse’,...
Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has confirmed that police have conducted over 40 searches in 10 regions, documenting illegal match fixing activities involving five crime groups and 35 football clubs (pictured). “The composition of the criminal groups included the Presidents of football clubs, former and current players, referees,...
• The Sports Tribunal of New Zealand has suspended a 16 year old athlete for four months, after he took a drink from a teammate’s bottle which resulted in a positive test for 1,4 dimethylpentylamine, a stimulant that features on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Prohibited List. The athlete...
Samples from members of Russia’s provisional 2018 FIFA World Cup squad are amongst 155 being investigated by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), reports ARD. In the video below, Journalists Hajo Seppelt and Florian Riesewieck said they had received a document with sample numbers and names corresponding to...
The Sports Tribunal of New Zealand (STNZ) has sanctioned amateur rugby league player Michael ‘Greg’ Strickland with a two year ban from 27 May 2017 for purchasing clenbuterol from the NZ Clenbuterol internet site in 2015. ‘This is the Tribunal’s fifth case and there are expected to be many...
The International Ski Federation (FIS) has agreed an integrity partnership with Global Sports Investigations, it announced at its Congress in Greece last weekend. ‘The Congress acknowledged the establishment of the system to protect the integrity of sport and the FIS in the case of any breaches of governance and...
One of the central tenets of most sports is that competition is split into male and female categories, based on the perception that males enjoy a performance advantage in certain sporting events due to differences in size, strength and power. This used to be carried out through an examination...
