Are corruption and kickbacks in the DNA of the sports world? Certainly, bad governance is not only haunting sport on the international level. Play the Game tells you the story about the troubled waters in a minor, but populous sports nation, the Philippines.

New ISSF constitution rejected by the ISSF General Assembly. The assembly agreed to continue the Kuwait suspension and promised to increase transparency.

It seems that not all 35 Olympic Federations are concerned with the IOC’s increasing demand for good governance in sports. Critics are targeting the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) for its governance practices.

An ASOIF task force has designed a new governance assessment tool to help Olympic summer sports to “promote and ensure a culture of governance”. But the new tool risks weakening IOC’s promises of independent control, says Play the Game’s international director.

Instead of protecting their ‘oligopoly’, international sport federations (IFs) should focus more on grassroots development, says Christer Ahl in this comment piece in which he analyses the core tasks of the IFs and finds that there is room for improvement in the way these tasks are performed.

In a joint statement, ministers of the Nordic countries warn that corruption, doping and manipulation of sports competitions undermine the core values of sport. There is an urgent need for action, they state.

A new book on sports governance in the EU analyses the authorities that the EU holds in relation to sports organisations.

A motion for a resolution calling for the follow-up on the Council of Europe’s recommendations regarding the crisis in sports governance, inspired by Play the Game’s Sports Governance Observer report, has been tabled.