Governance
Governance

The Chinese Football Association has removed nine clubs from its professional leagues for the upcoming season for failing to pay player and staff wages
Media

French media group Vivendi has said it will appeal a ruling from a Milan court rejecting its requests to suspend the resolutions adopted by Mediaset over its MediaForEurope (MFE) project
Basketball
Governance

The European division of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has claimed victory over Euroleague Basketball in a court battle concerning the two parties’ long-running dispute over the sport’s cal…
Athletics
Governance

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has requested that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing concerning the non-compliance case against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) be held in public…
Cycling
Governance

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has become the latest International Federation (IF) to agree to transfer its anti-doping activities over to the International Testing Agency (ITA), while it has made…
Football
Events

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has proposed that the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) be held every four years and a lucrative new tournament created for clubs on the continent, as world football’s governing b…
Para Sport
Governance

Indian Paralympic medal-winner Deepa Malik has been elected president of the Paralympic Committee of India. Malik, who won silver in shot putt F-53 at Rio 2016, was elected unopposed
Governance

Malaysia's Sports Commissioner is to produce a plan for reform of the country's national sports associations to deal with corruption and misconduct problems
Football
Governance

With top sponsors jumping ship, Football Federation Australia’s new CEO James Johnson faces a tough start to his new role. But there is confidence he has the know-how to turn things around. John Duerden reports.
Athletics
Governance

World Athletics has banned certain variants of Nike's Vaporfly running shoes for elite competition and announced significant changes to its rules on shoe technology
Basketball
Governance

Fiba board member Richard Carrión has been appointed chairman of the board of the joint management committee for the 2023 Basketball World Cup in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.
Weightlifting
Governance

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has appointed professor Richard McLaren to independently investigate allegations of corruption relating to the body and its president Tamás Aján.
Football
Governance

Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has said he is seeking the intervention of Fifa and Uefa to reform club football in the country amid the latest crisis, a bitter battle between Super League c…
Cycling
Governance

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has detained Malaysian National Cycling Federation president Abu Samah Abdul Wahab, allegedly for giving contracts to his family, according to reports by local…
Weightlifting
Governance

The entire board of the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association resigned yesterday, following allegations of  doping cover-ups in a documentary by German public-service broadcaster ARD.
Athletics
Governance

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) is facing expulsion from the World Athletics movement ahead of the 2020 summer Olympic Games after the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) recommended this measure for…
Football
Business

LaLiga club Atlético Madrid has secured the rights to a Canadian Premier League expansion team, which will be based in Ottawa.
Tennis
Governance

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reported 183 cases of suspicious betting to the relevant authorities in 2019, representing a 31-per-cent fall from 2018