• The international swimming federation (FINA) has clarified that all Matthew Willenbring’s individual results at the 2017 World Juniors in Indianapolis were cancelled via a 23 March decision, and the listing of his 100m freestyle bronze on the FINA website was an omission which has now been corrected. On 23 March, FINA announced that ‘All individual results achieved by Mr. Matthew Willenbring from 28 August 2017 shall be annulled’, and today clarified that this included his 100m freestyle bronze won on that date. Three US relay results involving Willenbring, including a gold won in the men’s 4×100 medley relay in a world junior record time, were later annulled in a 24 May decision, as reported by The Sports Integrity Initiative.

• Former Chief Executive of Dynamo Zagreb, Zdravko Mamic has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison on corruption charges, reports AFP. Mamic was charged with embezzlement and tax fraud in 2015, as well as with keeping a chunk of Luka Modric’s €21 million transfer fee relating to his 2008 move from Dynamo to Tottenham Hotspur. It is understood that Mamic continues to deny the charges. In a statement, Dynamo Zagreb expressed ‘shock and outrage’ at the sentence, which it vowed to fight, arguing Mamic has not been subjected to a fair trial.

• Slovakian football club Spartak Trnava has denied allegations that it won the 2017/18 title due to corruption, as alleged in a Topsky.sk article. ‘First of all we want to emphasise that any link of possible corruption with the alleged cases, we severely reject and condemn’, read a statement from the club. ‘Spartak Trnava won the 2017/2018 season title absolutely honestly and fairly […] None of the FC Spartak Trnava team or its close associates have ever had anything to do with any form of match fixing and games. The Club strongly rejects such accusations and distances itself from them. We are not aware of such a possible police case.’

• The Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO) has asked police to investigate claims that a former player had offered money to players to fix matches, it said in a statement. The KBO said that after completing its own investigation, it asked police to investigate on 18 May. 

• An Egyptian and Bulgarian swimmer have been sanctioned with four year bans, confirmed the international swimming federation (FINA). The Disciplinary Committee of the Egyptian Swimming Federation imposed a four year ban on Mohamed Waleed Saad El Mozayen, after analysis of a 3 April 2017 sample indicated the exogenous origin of the urinary metabolites of testosterone, said FINA. The Disciplinary Committee of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee imposed a four year ban on Bulgarian 50m and 100m butterfly national record holder Dobromira Ivanova, after a 20 December 2017 test returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for D-Methamphetamine, amphetamine and a metabolite of D-Methamphetamine, said FINA.

• An Indian court has acquitted four former footballers and one official sanctioned with bans by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for match-fixing, reports the Himalayan Times. In August 2016, the AFC dismissed their appeals against their lifetime bans.

• The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has sanctioned a 53 year old cyclist with a two year ban, after receiving a tip-off that he was using prescribed medication containing testosterone through its PlayClean Tip Centre. USADA said that Buster Brown’s therapeutic use exemption (TUE) ‘was insufficient because it neither met the ISTUE criteria nor the criteria for a TUE as a recreational competitor’.

• On 1 June, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published a revised 20 page International Standard for the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information (ISPPPI – PDF below). ‘The revised ISPPPI reflects the principles of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and promotes the highest data privacy standards currently available’, read a WADA statement.