• Photo: Patrick Seeger
    21.03.2016 /
    For nine years, a commission in Freiburg has investigated the sports legacy. Now, it has retired itself in protest. Will the doping secrets of West Germany ever come to light?
  • Photo: Ed Coyle/Flickr
    18.03.2016 /
    2015 resulted in a $122 million dollar loss, shows FIFA’s Financial and Governance Report that also for the first time reveals the salary of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Meanwhile, Infantino presents roadmap to restore trust in FIFA.
  • Photo: Thomas Couto/Flickr
    17.03.2016 /
    FIFA has submitted a claim to US authorities seeking compensation for the millions of dollars that corrupt FIFA officials have illegally pocketed.
  • Photo: shho/Free Images
    10.03.2016 /
    A better understanding of athletes’ needs is important in order to address the problem of doping and ensure a more effective anti-doping effort. Researchers point to education as one factor that may reduce the use of performance enhancing drugs.
  • Photo: Bobby Hidy/Flickr
    08.03.2016 /
    The EU Sport Forum will gather more than 300 stakeholders in sport for dialogue on European sport. Play the Game will be on a panel discussing good governance in sport.
  • Photo: MCaviglia/Flickr
    26.02.2016 /
    Gianni Infantino is the next president of FIFA. This was decided after a second ballot at the international football organisation’s extraordinary congress.
  • Photo: justinshanks/Flickr
    26.02.2016 /
    FIFA members have voted in favour of the proposed reform package at today’s Extraordinary Congress.
  • Photo: Cuiabà paulisson miura/Flickr
    25.02.2016 /
    Less than 20 percent of football fans state that they have confidence in FIFA, say numbers from a poll conducted by Transparency International that also shows that 60 percent would choose neither of the presidential candidates running in Friday’s FIFA election.

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