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 Confederation of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA) has had to broker an agreement at the request of FIFA after the legality of South African Football Association’s (SAFA) Presidential elections was challenged, causing the country’s Independent Electoral Committee (IEC) to refuse to oversee them. Ace Ncobo, former referee and...
The supply of anti-doping testing kits is guaranteed for the 2018 World Cup Russia, the international federation of football associations (FIFA) has confirmed, despite Berlinger’s decision to stop producing its BEREG-Kit urine sample collection bottles. ‘FIFA took note of Berlinger’s decision’, wrote a FIFA spokesperson in an email. ‘The...
• The Ukrainian Youth and Sports Ministry has issued a decree banning national teams from taking part in sporting competitions organised in Russia. Igor Zhdanov, Ukraine’s Minister for Sport, also urged international sporting federations not to award Russia the rights to host sporting tournaments. “Aggressors and violators should be expelled...
Greece has suspended its SuperLeague after PAOK President Ivan Savvidis invaded the pitch during a match with AEK with what appeared to be a gun strapped to his waist. “We are openly communicating with UEFA and we won’t restart the championship until we have a clear program of how...
Sport needs to take action on match-fixing immediately as it is losing the battle to organised crime, heard delegates at the second day of the Tackling Match Fixing conference in London on Saturday. “We are not winning this fight”, said Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, CEO of the Sports Integrity...
The interactive education programme launched by Spain’s La Liga last season hopes to reach 2,000 players, managers and coaches this season, said Alfredo Lorenzo, the body’s Integrity and Security Director. “Last season, 1,318 players took part in the programme”, Lorenzo told The Sports Integrity Initiative at the Tackling Match...
The scrutiny of sporting federations, integrity organisations and betting monitoring companies on high profile sport has meant that criminals have focussed their attention on fixing lower tiers, heard delegates at the Tackling Match Fixing conference in London today. “There is almost no match-fixing in the top tier”, said Sportradar’s...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has approved new competition regulations that are understood to seek to limit the amount of natural (endogenous) testosterone female athletes are permitted in certain events. The regulations are not new, as a draft was submitted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport...
• Andy Brown, the Editor of The Sports Integrity Initiative, will be attending the Tackling Match Fixing conference in London, which takes place tomorrow and Saturday. Follow @Sport_Integrity on Twitter to stay updated on the conference. • Canelo Alvarez has returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for clenbuterol, reports...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has declined to comment on an apparent error in its decision to sanction Russian biathlete Olga Zaytseva, as the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has yet to rule on her appeal. ‘Given that the Athlete was not in the Duchess List, she was...
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) Committee of the UK Parliament (DCMS Committee) has recommended the criminalisation of the supply of drugs to athletes with the intent to enhance performance in a Report on Combatting Doping in Sport (PDF below). The 52-page Report was also critical of...
The Ethics Panel of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has rejected the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to locate athletes for testing, citing that its use is ‘replete with ethical concerns’ in a Position Paper published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). However, the Paper...
Dr. Richard Freeman is alleged to have ordered testosterone patches to be delivered to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester whilst working for British Cycling and Team Sky. The Daily Mail reports that it has evidence that Dr. Freeman ordered the patches, then asked the supplier to send an...
• The Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) Committee of the UK Parliament is to publish its report on Combatting Doping in Sport on Monday 5 March. Since September 2015, the DCMS Committee has been exploring allegations of doping in sport and the potential failures of governing bodies to...
A number of club owners, players and officials have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from five months to ten years for involvement in match-fixing, according to Greek reports. Those sentenced by the three member court of appeal (Τριμελές Εφετείο) in Ahens is understood to include the following, reported...
