• A study by Germany and US Universities has found suspicious betting patterns for Bundesliga games between 2010 and 2015, reports WDR. The full study is available in English here.

• Boxer Suriyan Sor Rungvisai (Suriyan Kaikanha) has reported an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for methamphetamine and amphetamine, the World Boxing Council (WBC) announced on 22 February. The Thai boxer is the WBC’s number one bantamweight contender.

• The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has released its full decision behind its repeal of a one-year ban issued to the Belarus men’s canoe and Kayak teams. On 23 January, the CAS announced that a one-year ban issued by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) to the team could not be upheld due to ‘insufficient evidence’. The decision reveals that it could not be established for certain that the athletes involved had ingested meldonium after it became prohibited on 1 January 2016, following its addition to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2016 Prohibited List.

• New South Wales police’s anti match-fixing arm has confirmed that it is investigating a National Rugby League (NRL) player. ‘Detectives from the Organised Crime Squad’s Strike Force Nuralda have met with the NRL Integrity Unit in relation to the reported conduct of a 25-year-old player’, read an emailed statement. ‘No further information is available at this time’.

• Former Chief Executive of the South African Football Association (SAFA), Leslie Sedibe, has served FIFA with a US$5 million lawsuit alleging defamation of character, reports Sport24. Sedibe was sanctioned with a five-year ban and was also fined by FIFA in March last year, after an investigation into friendly matches played in South Africa in 2010. The lawsuit reportedly asks FIFA to publicly retract its report into the alleged fixed games.

• AFC Bournemouth has accepted a Football Association (FA) charge for failing to update its whereabouts information, reports the BBC. The English Premier League club was issued with the charge on 17 February, less than 24-hours after Manchester City was fined £35,000 for the same offence, prompting calls for more meaningful sanctions against football clubs found to have breached the FA’s regulations.

• The former Chairman of Racing Victoria, David Moodie, has launched legal action against his former employer, after an investigation concluded that he had leaked details of an inquiry into cobalt use to a trainer, reports the Herald Sun. In December, Victoria Racing’s Integrity Commissioner Sal Perna found that Moodie had told friend and trainer Peter Moody about a cobalt probe into fellow trainers Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh, potentially compromising the ­investigation.

• A lawsuit alleging that Lance Armstrong defrauded the US government by doping will go to full trial on 6 November at the US District Court for the District of Colombia, reports USA Today.

• Gillon McLachlan, Chief Executive of the Australian Football League (AFL) has denied lying to Essendon over the expected punishments its players were likely to receive over the supplement regime allegedly administered to players in 2012. “The day I lie to someone is the day I can’t do my job,” McLachlan told Sports Entertainment Network (SEN) on Friday morning, after News Corporation published a recording of a Essendon club meeting held in response to the charges.