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As Qatar races to complete construction projects ahead of the 2022 World Cup, a small army of workers from South…
For nearly a decade, Russia and Qatar have been suspected of buying votes to win hosting rights for the 2018…
Last spring, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a number of documents from fixers at the heart…
Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi won a second term virtually unchallenged in what is widely seen as a flawed election. The…
Interesting week in international sports. Lets start with the Champions League where once again we have a ‘choke-point’ where games…
New York – Here at the Brooklyn Federal Court House, one of the most significant legal trials in sports history…
Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, the head of the influential umbrella organization for the world’s 205 national Olympic federations,…
By Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two Irish Olympic executives have told Rio police that the head of…
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) official and head of the Guam Football Association, who has also been provisionally suspended by…
(ATR) The IOC Ethics Committee is now reviewing the circumstances that have drawn IOC member in Kuwait Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad…
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA Council member Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah of Kuwait is resigning from his soccer roles…
MACOLIN, Switzerland (AP) — The sprawling American investigation of bribery and corruption in international soccer has reached into Asia and…
Patrick Hickey remains the listed International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegate member for autonomy despite his “temporary self suspension” from all…
The president of Guam’s Football Association pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of wire fraud. Mary Ann Georgantopoulos BuzzFeed…
He is one of the most powerful men in world football. We met at the offices of a very prominent…
Five years ago, Canadian politics changed inside a boxing ring. The then backbencher MP Justin Trudeau fought the Conservative Senator…
As in the case of Koweit, the House of Commons is taking the initiative in reforming football associations. However, the…
By Søren Bang Governments have a growing interest in the governance of national sports organisations. Since 2013, Australia has required…
THE NEIL WILSON COLUMN / An exclusive, authoritative series from Sports Features Communications (SFC) The International Olympic Committee likes to embrace…
The Palestine Football Association (PFA), in a first testing of Palestine’s ability to fight its battle with Israel in international…
Cycling might have done better by following how Major League Baseball documents its steroid era, in letting history stand, but…
Tariq Panja tariqpanja Global soccer organization FIFA, seeking to repair its reputation after a corruption scandal brought the governing body…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused world soccer body FIFA of allowing FIFA-sanctioned matches to be played on occupied…
An Egyptian businessman with close ties to general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has submitted a bid for the broadcasting rights of…
There used to be a public health phenomena called Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). The idea was that dirty ducts…
Kuwaiti authorities seize offices of the National Olympic Committee and the National Football Association due to alleged financial irregularities. By…
KUWAIT, Aug 29 (KUNA) — His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has placed his personal weight as…
By Nick Butler at the Cidade da Policia in Rio de Janeiro International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey is…
Pat Hickey, the powerful Irishman who heads the European Olympic Council, languishes in a top security Brazil prison in Rio…
John Delaney, Head of the Irish Football Association, had already fled when the Brazilian judges had ordered he be detained.Photo…
Patrick Joseph Hickey (71), president of the Olympic Council of Ireland since 1989, is in a maximum security jail in…
…the IOC would drag their feed and ignore clear reports of state-sponsored, systemic doping, until it would be so close…
Abu Otaiba, the nom du guerre of a self-taught imam and Islamic State (IS) recruiter in Jordan, uses soccer…
PAT HICKEY KNOWS MORE THAN MOST about Olympic corruption. He has seen it firsthand over the past quarter of a…
When the IOC abstained from issuing a general ban on Russian athletes after the McLaren report revealing a state supported…
Hygiene was a disaster, patriotism was out of control — and doping involved animal testicles and black magic. DAVID…
Ten Points on the Russian Sports Doping Scandal 1. The only way to get clean, dope-free sport is for…
Mohammed Simsim, the president of the Saudi Arabian Weightlifting Federation, embodies existential dilemmas involved in Saudi deputy crown prince…
If the Islamic State (IS) was serious about attacking Euro 2016, its plans clearly never materialized. Leaked transcripts of the…
Det Internationale Skytteforbund er om muligt endnu mere lukket end FIFA Her gik man og troede, at FIFA tager prisen…
It seems that not all 35 Olympic Federations are concerned with the IOC’s increasing demand for good governance in sports.…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, JULIET MACUR and IAN AUSTEN When Darya Pishchalnikova, above, a discus thrower, told the World Anti-Doping…
The Muslim world’s battle over the legitimacy of political Islam has expanded to the soccer pitch as proponents and…
It is one of the great sporting images of our time and it comes from a fixed fight. Muhammad…
First Domenico Scala, now Markus Kattner. Two big fish with key roles to play in monitoring FIFA’s good governance. Yet both…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dresses up his increasing authoritarianism with nationalist and religious overtones, sparking battles over the future…
Fifa’s new president Gianni Infantino is using the authoritarian tactics of ex-leader Sepp Blatter, according to a top reform advocate…
Ben Rumsby Gianni Infantino’s first crisis as president of Fifa intensifiedon Monday after he was accused of a “complete betrayal”…
It was not a good week for sport. The Turkish nightmare continues. There are strange doings, as usual, in Singapore…