Crime

  • Photo: Tom Raftery/Flickr
    By Andreas Selliaas
    29.01.2015 /
    Do we have two sorts of moral playing fields – one inside and one outside sports? Are we more eager to forgive crime committed outside sports than fouls committed in the sports arena? Andreas Selliaas comments on judgment and forgiveness in sports.
  • Photo: Action Images / Andrew Boyers
    10.09.2014 /
    Establishing global legislation on match-fixing is unlikely according to Interpol. European sports ministers are expected to sign a new Council of Europe convention on manipulation of sports competitions, but global legislation to convict match-fixers is needed according to Emanuel Medeiros from the ICSS.
  • 31.10.2013 /
    Play the Game’s international director Jens Sejer Andersen has called on politicians and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take a greater role in funding investigations into sports governance and ensure the safety of whistle-blowers.
  • 31.05.2013 /
    At the sports minister conference, MINEPS V, in Berlin yesterday, Sport Integrity Director Chris Eaton presented his views on what the global society must do in order to preserve the integrity of sport.
  • 30.05.2013 /
    Unedited version of the speech by Chris Eaton, director for sport integrity at the International Center for Sports Security, delivered at the MINEPS V Conference in Berlin, Germany, on 30 May 2013.
  • 10.05.2013 /
    Analysis: Several scandals centring around Brazil’s Olympic president and Rio 2016 chairman, Carlos Nuzman, is creating unrest regarding Brazil’s image and internal dispute between the government and the Brazilian Olympic Committee
  • By Declan Hill
    08.02.2013 /
    In this comment piece, match-fixing expert Declan Hill asks why the man, who is allegedly one of the main characters behind the extensive match-fixing recently exposed by Europol, continues to avoid arrest given the international warrants issued against him.
  • 07.02.2013 /
    A national report about doping in Australia shows an extensive use of doping among Australian elite athletes.

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