Isabelle Westbury is a freelance journalist who writes for the SII. Her focus is on politics and sport, especially cricket. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Mail and The Sun, and broadcasts on cricket for the BBC. She has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union, as well as a postgraduate degree in law. She is also Middlesex CCC women’s cricket captain.
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A US District Judge has a overturned a four-game suspension imposed on National Football League (NFL) player Tom Brady by the NFL’s commissioner Roger Goodell. In May this year the NFL suspended the New England Patriot’s quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of the 2015 football season...
The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) has announced the date of a hearing to be held by the Italian Anti-doping Prosecutor’s Office for Gottlieb Taschler and his son, Daniel. Gottlieb Taschler is alleged to have attempted to organise a course of eryerythropoietin (EPO) for Daniel through a 2010 meeting with...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) anti-corruption unit has reportedly cleared a match in the country’s first-class cricket division of match-fixing allegations. According to ESPNCricinfo, the unit had failed to find tangible evidence of match-fixing in the National Cricket League (NCL) match between Rangpur Division and Dhaka Metropolis, which was...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a ‘policy on reintegration’ for the three Pakistani international cricketers banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2010 for spot-fixing. Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir were found guilty of various offences of corrupt behaviour relating to the Lord’s Test...
The Russian professional ice hockey player Sergey Gusev has been banned by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) for six months for an unspecified anti-doping rule violation. In a short statement released on Wednesday, RUSADA said that the Russian Hockey Federation had decided to ban the athlete following the receipt...
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed that the hearing in the arbitration procedure between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), 34 current and former players of the Australian Football League (AFL) side Essendon, the AFL and the Australian Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) will be held in Sydney,...
The Welsh sevens player Carl Townsend has been suspended for four years for an anti-doping rule violation. The 27-year old was subject to in-competition urine testing during the Rugby Europe Grand Prix 7s in Moscow earlier this summer. On subsequent analysis, World Rugby, the world governing body for rugby...
Greek football champions Olympiacos have been allowed to enter the UEFA Champions League groups draw despite match-fixing allegations, UEFA have confirmed. UEFA told the Sports Integrity Initiative that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), sport’s highest court, had rejected an appeal by Panathinaikos, who challenged an earlier UEFA...
London Broncos’ full-back Richard Mathers has been suspended from all Rugby League activity for six months. The ban was announced in a statement by the Rugby Football League (RFL), which said that he had been ‘found guilty of breaching the sport’s rules relating to betting.’ The RFL said that an...
Yesterday the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that sanctions against Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will expire at midnight on 1 September 2015. The ICC announced that the two cricketers, who were convicted alongside their Pakistani team-mate Mohammad Amir for their roles in spot-fixing during the England vs. Pakistan...
The three players were found guilty of various offences of corrupt behavior relating to the Lords Test between England and Pakistan in August 2010. The International Cricket Council today confirmed that the sanctions against Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will expire at midnight on 1 September 2015 and that they will be eligible...
Malta has reportedly requested the withdrawal of its request for an opinion from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as to whether the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions is compatible with EU Treaties. Malta’s Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness and Economic Growth, Jose Herrera, had...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) has banned the President and Technical Head of the South African Football Coaches Association (SAFCA) from all football-related activities for three years. SAFCA’s President, Greg Mashilo, and its Technical Head, Simon Ngomane, publicly criticised the appointment of Neil Tovey as SAFA’s Technical Director...
The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that two Minor League players have been suspended following their violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Cleveland Indians Minor League outfielder Luigi Rodriguez has received an 80-game suspension without pay following a positive test for a...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ratified a settlement agreement between the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the Turkish Athletic Federation (TAF) and the Turkish middle distance runner Asli Cakir-Alptekin resulting in an eight-year ban for the athlete. In a media release issued yesterday, the CAS...
