The FIFA Council has voted to replace the heads of both chambers of its Ethics committee, Eckert and Borbély. The two hit back in a statement claiming that this signals the end of FIFA’s reforms. FIFA has also chosen to part with Miguel Maduro, Head of FIFA’s governance and review committee.
Without any apparent justification, Bahraini authorities have barred German reporter Robert Kempe, who has written critically about Bahraini sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, from entering the country to attend the FIFA Congress.
The EAA’s suggestion to erase athletic records not living up to new criteria for anti-doping prompted accusations of doping cover-ups performed by EAA president Svein Arne Hansen during his time as head of the Bislett Games.
John Coates has been re-elected as president of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and is now facing the task of uniting the AOC and bring about sought after change.
Is it surfing with a paddle or canoeing on a board? A feud in international sport on stand up paddling brings up the question of who owns a sport in a world of monopoly sports federations.
In spite of the many similarities between the Nordic countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Sweden outranks the other two when it comes to sports performance, says a new comparative analysis.
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