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.

The decision by the governing body of cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) to give the ‘Big Three’ of cricket, India, England and Australia, a dominant position in the organisation is met by criticism from the sport’s stakeholders to Transparency International.

Switzerland is the centre of international sports organisations, and now a new report from Swiss based research consultancy Rütter+Partner claims that the organisations produce substantial economic effects for the Swiss economy.

International sport is facing new power structures, but also a huge task in making sport and physical activity more inclusive. At the closing session of Play the Game 2013, four speakers mapped some of sport’s urgent challenges without reaching a clear consensus on how to assess and deal with them.

A wish to promote democratic values in sport has ostensibly been a main driving force behind a new Global Sports Political Power Index from the National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark.

After many years in the shadow of taboos, sports corruption is now debated freely and at the highest level of sports policy making. All the right words are in place at three huge global meetings this week, but convincing action is still far away.

A televised legal battle against corrupt politicians and two upcoming mega-events are sharpening people’s awareness of how sport is governed in South America’s largest country.

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