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Sport Integrity Australia’s new National Integrity Framework will help protect sporting organisations and participants – at all levels – from integrity threats, says Sport Integrity Australia CEO David Sharpe. “The recent Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) independent review into gymnastics highlights the need for, and benefit to, sporting organisations of...
FIFA and FIFA President Gianni Infantino welcome the decision of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) to remove Stefan Keller from his position as extraordinary Federal Prosecutor. The FCC emphatically declared that the bias of Mr Keller, as demonstrated by his various media releases, repeated procedural errors, and consistent denial...
We were earlier this year charged with manipulation of football matches and competitions contrary to Art. 18 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code on the basis of a report compiled by the FIFA Integrity. The events purportedly leading to the charge involve two of the then Kenyan Premier League matches,...
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has found Kenyan club Zoo FC guilty of having been involved in match manipulation in violation of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (2019 edition). The decision to sanction Zoo FC is related to a series of matches in the Kenyan Premier League deemed to have been manipulated...
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the Italian rider Matteo Spreafico has been sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of three years following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) for the presence of Enobosarm (Ostarine) in two samples collected during the Giro d’Italia 2020 on 15 and 16 October...
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Ms Nella Joseph, supervisor of the U-20 women’s national team at the Haitian Football Association (FHF), guilty of having failed to protect the physical and mental integrity of various female players who were under her authority and responsibility at...
USADA announced today that Raphael Pessoa Nunes, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has accepted a two-year sanction for his second violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy involving his use and/or attempted use of a prohibited substance, positive tests for that substance, and evasion of sample collection. As required under the rules...
The Australian Human Rights Commission has today published their report following their independent review of the culture and practices of gymnastics in Australia. Gymnastics Australia commissioned the independent review in August 2020 in response to reports from the gymnastics community of unacceptable personal experiences. The report was commissioned to...
Executive summary Gymnastics Australia engaged the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) in August 2020 to conduct an independent review of culture and practice at all levels of the sport of gymnastics in Australia. The Independent Review into Gymnastics in Australia (the Review) was requested by Gymnastics Australia following the...
• League prepares measures to stop threat of breakaway leagues in the future The events of the last two weeks have challenged the foundations and resolve of English football. The Premier League has prepared a series of measures to enshrine the core principles of the professional game: an open...
• Provincial Unions vote unanimously of Silver Lake proposal • NZR announce $18.7m operating loss and total loss of $34.6m for the year • Mark Hutton and Ajit Balasingham join NZR Board • NZR to continue discussions with New Zealand Rugby Players’ Association New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has been given the green light by its...
USADA announced today that Tate Jackson, of Austin, Texas, an athlete in the sport of swimming, has accepted a one-month suspension—the minimum allowed under the applicable rules—for an anti-doping rule violation. Jackson, 24, tested positive for 11-nor-9-carboxy-tetrahydrocannabinol (Carboxy-THC), a urinary metabolite of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive constituent of cannabis,...
The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reported 64 cases of suspicious betting to the relevant authorities during the first quarter (Q1) of 2021. The Q1 total is broadly similar to the 68 cases reported in Q4 2020 and the 61 alerts reported in Q1 2020. Tennis (18), eSports (17)...
• Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Zoysa has been handed a six-year ban from all cricket after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. Former Sri Lanka player and coach Nuwan Zoysa has been banned from all cricket for six years after an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him...
USADA announced today that Rebekah Koehly, of Austin, Texas, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a 20-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation involving her possession and use and/or attempted use of a prohibited substance. Koehly, 40, declared the use of testosterone during an in-competition sample collection...
