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Additions to Knowledge Bank

30 July 2008

Play the Game has added articles by Georg Facius, who has held high-level positions within both European and World Athletics, and Julian Summerhayes, a UK-based lawyer, to the Play the Game Knowledge Bank.[more]




Cycling event alleged to have bought Olympic acceptance from UCI

29 July 2008

The International Cycling Union (UCI) is facing allegations that it accepted a payment of USD 3 million to endorse the place of the ‘keirin’ as one of cycling’s Olympic events, a claim the world governing body for cycling...[more]




CAS decision on Handball controversy highlights top-level failings at IHF and AHF

29 July 2008

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling on the dispute between the International Handball Federation and the Asian Handball Federation over Asian qualification tournaments for the Beijing Olympics highlights a catalogue of...[more]




Relaunch of sport and development platform

29 July 2008

After a massive overhaul in strategic direction, content and layout, the improved ‘one-stop-shop’ on Sport & Development, sportanddev.org has been relaunched.[more]




Players take up the fight against match fixing in badminton

21 July 2008

Long-held suspicions were confirmed in late March this year, when Chinese badminton coach Li Yongbo admitted to fixing one of the women’s singles semi-finals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Thus far, the Badminton World...[more]




FIFA and IOC won’t investigate China spy case

17 July 2008

Nearly a year after the initial incident, the Danish women’s national football team are still waiting to find out who it was that spied on them in a Chinese hotel room at the 2007 Women’s World Cup. Despite protests by the Danish...[more]




Only minor convictions in corruption case against ISL executives

09 July 2008

In March this year, a Swiss court produced evidence that in the period from 1989 to 2001, the now defunct International Sport and Leisure company (ISL) paid officials from a number of sports federations 87.5 million euros to...[more]




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