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• Hockey Australia provides the following in response to the Independent Review into claims of a toxic culture, bullying and governance in relation to Hockey Australia’s National Women’s Program, the Hockeyroos. The Hockeyroos occupy pride of place in Australia’s sporting history and are the country’s most successful women’s Olympic...
The World Athletics Council has approved the reinstatement of the Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) programme for clean athletes from Russia, which will commence in time for the 2021 outdoor competition season. The Russian Taskforce Report, with two amendments from the Council which are listed below, states that for the remainder of...
• The FA has responded to the publication of the findings of the independent review it commissioned into allegations of non-recent child sexual abuse in football, led by Clive Sheldon QC. VIEW THE SHELDON REPORT Mark Bullingham, chief executive of the Football Association, said: “I am proud to lead...
• South African Paralympian Scott Field to act as independent chair of the Code Drafting Team Following approval from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board, the IPC is to undertake an extensive three-year three-phase open consultation review of the 2015 Athlete Classification Code. Classification is a unique cornerstone of...
FIFPro is today launching the ‘Shaping Our Future’ report about men’s professional football that examines global revenue streams and the working conditions of players, with a view to achieving a more stable and robust game. The report is based on data from a sample of 79 countries and combines...
• New programme is aimed at boosting education and building integrity capacity within 211 member associations • FIFA Global Integrity Programme developed in collaboration with UNODC • Virtual workshops for member associations and integrity officers to take place from March 2021 FIFA, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on...
• Both the UAE players have been banned from all cricket for eight years under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. United Arab Emirates (UAE) players Mohammad Naveed and Shaiman Anwar Butt have been banned from all cricket for eight years each after the ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found them guilty of...
Football Kenya Federation has launched the Integrity action plan on Saturday, March 13, 2021, in an effort aimed at upholding the core values of the FKF leagues. In a workshop that brought together FKF Premier League club chairmen, the Federation’s newly appointed Integrity Officer, Mike Kamure, who will head an...
On 11th March 2021, long distance runner Florence Jepkosgei Chepsoi was arraigned before the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Eldoret and sentenced to a one year Community Service Order (CSO) after pleading guilty to the offence of presenting false documents to the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK). In 2017, the...
• IntegriSport Erasmus+ project (2019-2020) came to an end with its closing event organized by project co-ordination, CSCF Foundation for Sport Integrity, on Wednesday 10th March, on the topic of sports manipulations and criminal activities impacting sports. The event was hosted and opened by the Portuguese EU Presidency and...
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes its 2020 Code Compliance Annual Report (Report). This second yearly report of its kind is an important element of WADA’s commitment to transparency and of WADA’s Compliance Strategy that was endorsed by WADA’s Executive Committee in 2019. One of WADA’s primary roles as the...
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has ruled that extraordinary Federal Prosecutor Stefan Keller acted illegally by extending his investigation beyond its remit. Mr Keller was appointed to look into certain meetings that the former Swiss Attorney General, Michael Lauber, had with the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino. However, instead of doing...
Rugby union player Ralph Rainbow has been banned from all sport for a period of four years following a first Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV). On 12 July 2018, UK Border Force seized a package on route to Mr Rainbow’s home address which contained items used in the process of injecting...
Olympic champion Thomas Bach has been re-elected for an additional four-year term as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). At the 137th IOC Session held virtually today, the 67-year-old German received 93 yes and 1 no votes from the 94 valid votes. Thomas Bach, who won gold in with...
• President Infantino addresses special event on safeguarding sport from corruption and crime • FIFA protecting “not just football and its institutions, but also the very people that practise the sport” FIFA President Gianni Infantino has featured at the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice...
