Bribes from the former ISL marketing company did not only go to FIFA officials. At the moment, the IOC is investigating whether the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Lamine Diack, also took bribes from the now defunct Swiss company when it had the exclusive marketing contract for the IAAF Championships.

The 2011 Play the Game conference concluded with a call to the International Olympic Committee to organise a world conference before the end of 2012 in order to draft a code and international standards for good governance in sport.

"If you think that a ball game is merely a game about a ball, you may have got it wrong. Sport as a whole is an intense, never-ending battlefield about the values that guide our lives," Jens Sejer Andersen, International Director at Play the Game states in this article. In the article he also looks into whether the ethical standards for sport are higher than for other cultural phenomena.

At a FIFA press conference earlier today, Claudio Sulser, Chairman of FIFA’s Ethics Committee, presented the decisions made by the Ethics Committee to ban the two FIFA executives, accused of selling their votes in the election to host the 2018 World Cup, from all football related activities. Four other FIFA officials received similar penalties.

On April 27, 2010 The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi over corruption allegations.

The president of the world boxing Ching-Kuo Wu has had a hard time getting his federation clean

In August it was announced that rugby would be up for election as an Olympic sport at the Olympic Congress in October. But the joy this announcement caused in the world of rugby has been replaced with worries as a series of tarnishing incidents have been revealed during the summer.

Vancouver City Councilors have passed a motion calling for a reversal of the decision by the IOC not to offer a women’s ski jump competition at next year’s Winter Olympics, which will be held in the city.