Play the Game has renewed and broadened an agreement with KU Leuven to examine and develop better governance in international sports federations.

German TV viewers learned yesterday evening, Monday the 13 October, how sport can treat its whistleblowers when public German TV channel West-Deutsche Rundfunk (WDR) aired a 10-minutes portrait of the Argentinian Mario Goijman.

Impunity may soon be over for sports leaders who excel in corruption in Swiss-based organisations. But law changes cannot stand alone and should be followed up by governance changes, writes Arnout Geeraert in this analysis.

Ministers from around 50 countries are expected to sign a new convention at a conference in Switzerland in September where they will also discuss the risk of other forms of corruption in sport

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.

In a move to step up the fight for integrity in sport, UNESCO and the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS) have formed a strategic partnership that will seek to address corruption and match-fixing globally.

Cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, but according to a new report from Transparency International, the international governing body of cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) must act now and strengthen the governance of the sport in order to keep up to speed with these developments.