The British Olympic Association (BOA) lost its battle with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and must now ratify its policy of giving lifetime Olympic bans for doping. For a number...[more]

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning a boycott of the Euro 2012 football tournament taking place in Ukraine in June unless the imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is released, and is urging her ministers to do...[more]

EASM 2012 announces Mark Pieth, head of FIFA's Independent Governance Committee, as a keynote speaker at the conference in Aalborg, Denmark at 18-21 September.[more]

In a report released today the Council of Europe sharpens it tone against FIFA and provides new information about the scale of the corruption that has affected the world governing body of football. The report includes the full...[more]

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.[more]

New research project funded by the European Commission seeks to investigate football’s impact on identity dynamics and cultural change in Europe.[more]

Last week, UEFA, the European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL), the European Club Association (ECA) and the players union FIFPro Division Europe agreed on a "historic" agreement set to ensure minimum standards for...[more]

Qatar’s increasing engagement in European soccer and international sport is just one leg in the small Gulf State’s high-risk attempts to position itself as a global player ‘on the right side of history’. But the accompanying...[more]

Brazil's Senate is still against adopting a special law regarding the World Cup. In particular, the FIFA requirements for beer sales at World Cup stadiums, which go against previous FIFA guidelines, are encountering resistance.[more]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) met yesterday to hear the former FIFA executive Mohamed Bin Hammam’s appeal against his life-time ban from football.  The CAS hearing is expected to end today, but a decision is not...[more]