Knowledge bank: Presentation by Jens Sejer Andersen held at the UCSIA international workshop 'Sports, A Matter of Peace?' on FIFA, the ISL scandal and the need for an anti-corruption agency in sport.

Two FIFA Executive Committee members have been caught on video offering to sell their votes in the competition to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup for cash. FIFA has initiated an investigation into the allegations.

Knowledge bank article: Sportsmen and women in the UK seem to be more and more eager to protect what they deem to be private information.

Last month, the European ministers of sport passed a unanimous resolution to ask the Council of Europe to help set up an international agency to fight corruption in sport.

Sports federations are increasingly fed up with the way that athletes are affected by the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The IOC as well as UEFA are applying pressure on Israel to ease restrictions on Palestinian athletes. And in Iran, there is simmering resistance against the government's policy that Iranian athletes can not compete against athletes from Israel.

By appointing 11 out of 15 new names, the board of Play the Game has carried out the biggest make-over of its Programme Committee in more than a decade. A blend of international experts in sports science, media, business and politics will in the coming year contribute with “advice regarding which themes and speakers appear on the programme of the international conferences” as the statutes of the institution lay down.

Anita DeFrantz, President of the International Olympic Committee's Women and Sport Commission, argued yesterday at a symposium on women in sport at the SPORTELMonaco that sports media are discriminating against women athletes by calling them by their first name.

The London Assembly has challenged the ability of the Olympic Park Legacy Company to maximise the economic benefits from the Olympic Park and the 2012 Games.