While sport’s mega-events have seen an exodus to the rest of the world, Europe and the Western world still have a solid hold on the small- and medium-sized sports events, an analysis of all World Championship events since 1990 shows.

"‘Omerta’ is about the Brazilian mafia and the football mafia in and outside Brazil, but it is also an attack on fellow journalists for their ignorance of the corruption inside FIFA," Selliaas writes in this review of Andrew Jennings' new book 'Omerta'.

Ambitions were high and international sport notably absent when a summary of two years of research into sports integrity by 70 academic researchers was launched in Paris.

On May 15, at the Sport Integrity Forum, the Sorbonne-ICSS Research programme on Sports Integrity will present the results of their two-year long research programme into the scale and scope of match-fixing as well as the means to prevent, inform, educate and ensure good governance in the sports movement.

England has some way to go before Sport England’s goal of having a 25 % female representation in sports governance is fulfilled, a new survey shows. Presently, less than 50% of British sport’s governing bodies live up to this goal.

With outset in recent doping scandals in Jamaica, senior researcher at the Asser International Sports Law Centre Antoine Duval looks at the consequences of having different degrees of anti-doping regulations in different countries.

While parents largely support the element of competition in sport as an educational tool, the vast majority of children are far less enthusiastic, says a new British study among schoolchildren and their parents.

The FIFA Independent Governance Committee (IGC), led by Swiss professor Mark Pieth, has concluded its advisory review of the governance in football’s world governing body, FIFA, and the results are now available in a final report.