There seems to have been a lot of stuff this week on issues relating to integrity in sport.
I got a call on Friday from Newsnight ahead of the piece they put out about Nigeria’s football team; I saw there was speculation around tennis with news that officials were assessing reports of irregular betting on a first-round match between Richard Bloomfield and Christophe Rochus at the Hall of Fame grass-court tournament in Newport, R.I.; and I was delighted to see the announcement of an education deal with the British Athletes’ Commission brokered by my old colleague Susannah Gill.
I was surprised to see Patrick Collins of the Mail on Sunday, a journalist I normally very much enjoy reading for his in-depth knowledge, have a go at the last of those. “If there were no sports gambling industry,” he wrote, “there would be no question of corruption, nor any need to ‘safeguard the integrity of sport’”.
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