• Professor Jiri Dvorak is the latest FIFA official to confirm that his contract was terminated whilst he was investigating the systemic doping of Russian footballers. Dvorak, FIFA’s former Chief Medical Officer, told The Guardian that he was given no warning when his contract was terminated in November last year. The newspaper earlier reported that Cornel Borbély was investigating doping in Russian football when it was decided not to nominate him for re-election as Chairman of FIFA’s Ethics Committee. Vitaly Mutko, Russia’s Minister of Sport at the time State doping allegedly took place, is Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.

• A adverse analytical finding (AAF) for sibutramine in the sample of Kumar Subramaniam, goalkeeper for Malaysia’s national hockey team, has been blamed on ‘slimming tea’. Kumar reported the AAF after a 16 October Asia Cup group match against Oman. “I have been made to understand from information received that he [Kumar] took slimming tea”, Datuk Seri Abdul Azim Zabidi, the Chairman of Malaysia’s National Sports Institute, told the New Straits Times.

• The International Partnership Against Corruption in Sport (IPACS) has set up three new Taskforces, which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said are designed to ‘address pressing issues’. The first is designed to reduce the risk of corruption regarding procurement relating to sporting events; the second is designed to ensure integrity in the process of selection of hosts of sporting events; and the third is designed to optimise compliance with good governance principles to reduce the risk of corruption.  More details are available in this statement from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has disqualified the Slovenian women’s 4x6km biathlon team from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, after sanctioning Teja Gregorian with an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). The IOC informed the International Biathlon Union (IBU) about Gregorian’s adverse analytical finding (AAF) on 26 October, following retests of samples taken at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.