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Singaporean Ng Ser Miang has officially declared his candidacy for the post as the next president of the International Olympic Committee. At an event at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France,...[more]

Switzerland, home of more than 30 international sports organisations, is looking to introduce a law that will make corruption and bribery in private companies and organisations a penalty. Yesterday...[more]

Today the long awaited official FIFA report into the ISL affair was released. The report is written by Hans-Joachim Eckert, head of the FIFA ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber and looks into the...[more]

South American football president Nicolas Leoz has resigned from FIFA’s Executive Committee “for health and personal reasons” writes a FIFA press statement. Leoz, who was made president for life of...[more]

A report released during the CONCACAF congress in Panama this weekend outlines harsh allegations of fund embezzlement committed by then FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and former CONCACAF...[more]

A new report on gender balance in Olympic competitions and leadership gives recommendations on how to further reduce the gender imbalance that research finds to exist in the Olympic movement. The...[more]

A new series of leadership insights into governance on sport aims to assist sport leaders in spotting, sharing and shaping evolving good practices. The leadership insights are written by Michael...[more]

The European Parliament has approved a resolution aimed at combatting the problems with match-fixing and corruption in sport.  On Thursday 14 March, the European Parliament adopted the...[more]

The seven Australian Olympic sports receiving the most public funding have been warned by the Australian government to improve their governance or risk losing a significant portion of the...[more]

Duke University offers a free course on Sport and Society via the online e-learning platform Coursera. Through tools from anthropology, sociology and history, the course ‘Sport and Society’ will...[more]

International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid received a ban from the IOC in 1976 after breaking the international bans on competing in apartheid South Africa, reveals the British...[more]

SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for both Olympic and non-Olympic international sports, has released a Factsheet providing an overview of the representation of women in leadership positions...[more]

Chinese Football Association concluded a three-year match-fixing investigation this Monday by handing out five-year bans to 25 former and current players, officials and referees and banning 33 for...[more]

At Interpol and AFC’s seminar on match-fixing taking place in Malaysia today, FIFA declined to sanction the Singaporean FA for failing to extradite the alleged Singaporean match-fixing kingpin,...[more]

Loughborough University has announced that a new Graduate School Studentship will look closer into the governance of selected sports governing bodies. The research will add to the theoretical debates...[more]