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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Jim Walden, lawyer for Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, has threatened legal action against Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov if he is financing a defamation lawsuit launched by three Russian biathletes against the former Director of the Moscow and Sochi 2014 laboratories. ‘We note that the Lawsuit, based on information in...
Today, the United States Olympic Committee announced additional reforms and new initiatives designed to protect athletes from abuse and respond quickly and effectively when issues surface. The USOC also announced that CEO Scott Blackmun is resigning due to ongoing health issues resulting from prostate cancer. Susanne Lyons, a current...
Two former football players have been jailed alongside four other men for a scheme that sought over £5 million in government funding for bogus football coaching apprenticeships for young people. Paul Sugrue and Mark Aizlewood were sentenced to a total of 25 years and five months’ imprisonment at Southwark...
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) expects the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reinstate it by 1 March, despite apparent violations of the OAR Conduct Guidelines in the final stages of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. ‘The IOC Executive Board has voted to lift a temporary suspension of the Russian...
The Netherlands national anti-doping agency (Doping Autoriteit) has reported 23 anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) during 2017, 0.76% of the 3,008 tests it carried out during the year. This represented an increase from the 20 ADRVs reported during 2016, 0.72% of the 2,788 tests conducted during the year. The total...
• Bosnia Herzegovina has lodged an appeal against a European Handball Federation (EHF) decision that Switzerland should progress to the next round of the Men’s World Championship, overturning its victory against Switzerland after ruling that an ineligible player had been fielded. The EHF initially ruled that a player fielded...
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) has clarified how a urine test from 2018 Commonwealth Games hopeful Jessica Peris returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for three substances, yet a blood test performed the same day did not reveal any AAFs. ‘Ms Peris was subject to an out-of-competition test...
Jim Walden, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov’s lawyer, has urged the US Congress to adopt a ‘Doping Fraud Statute’ that would enable the US to prosecute overseas doping that has affected US citizens or businesses. “We need to stop calling this doping and call it what it is, which is doping...
West Ham United has become the third Premier League club to be charged with failing to ensure its ‘whereabouts’ information is accurate during the last year. ‘West Ham United have been charged in relation to The FA’s Rules on Anti-Doping, specifically Regulation 14(d)’, read a Football Association (FA) statement....
Victoria’s Minister for Racing has criticised the leak of text message evidence relating to its inquiry into the race day doping of Lovani, after a series of text messages published by Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper suggested horses may have been doped at the 2015 Melbourne Cup. It is understood...
Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian owner of the Brooklyn Nets, is understood to be bankrolling a defamation lawsuit filed by three biathletes against Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, former Director of the Moscow and Sochi 2014 Laboratories. The lawsuit, filed by three retired biathletes – Olga Zaytseva, Yana Romanova and Olga Vilukhina...
• Police have detained over 20 people in an operation designed to dismantle a match-fixing ring involving football clubs and players in Spain’s lower divisions. ‘La Liga wants to firstly highlight the extraordinary work carried out by the national police in the dismantling of a complex, organised group dedicated...
The US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, is to hold a briefing entitled ‘The Russian doping scandal: protecting whistleblowers and combating fraud in sports’ on Thursday 22 February at 3:30pm. The briefing will be broadcast live on the Commission’s Facebook page....
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has rejected applications from 18 Russian athletes to compete as neutrals athletes in various events during 2018. The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) said that the reason given was that the athletes had not been part of a Registered Testing Pool (RTP) for...
The Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has opened a procedure against Aleksandr Krushelnitckii, who took bronze in the PyeongChang 2018 mixed doubles curling with his wife, Anastasia Bryzgalova. The CAS said that the procedure was opened at the request of the International Olympic Committee...
