IAAF – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

Tennis Match-Fixing

Credible and good. The Buzzfeed investigators - John Templon and Heidi Blake - should be congratulated. Three more facts. One, I was with a major monitor of sports gambling fixes. They are experts in this world. Their people were estimating approximately one fixed match a week in the the tennis world. Two, I interviewed a player and then two senior investigators who told me that some tennis players make more money fixing games than playing honestly. Three, the secret reports that the story...

7 lessons from the IAAF and Russian Doping Scandals

So now we know. Now we know that the Russian anti-doping system in sport was largely a sham: a Potemkin village of a program designed to give the appearance of an effective fight but in reality enabling widespread doping among their athletes. Now we know that at the very heart of athleticism and the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) that was a deeply corrupted system that enabled doping athletes and coaches. Here are the lessons that we can learn: 1) The myth...