A year of scandal and introspection has inspired The Sports Consultancy and Quest to form Global Sports Investigations, a new organisation dedicated to creating robust independent inquiries in sport. Theleading figures behind it, including former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens, outline why they believe the idea has transformative potential.
By Eoin Connolly
In 2017, it is fair to say, sport realised it needed to take a long, hard look at itself. Years-long corruption scandals churned on and drew officials linked to world soccer’s Fifa and the organisers of Rio 2016 into criminal investigations. Efforts to weaken, undermine and circumvent anti-doping measures were headlined by Russia’s apparent campaign to cheat systemically, backed by the state, which finally earned the country’s Olympic body an International Olympic Committee (IOC) ban in December….
Read full article here: GSI SportsPro issue 98 v2
