Can sport be purged of corruption or is it just too late?
Transparency International, a group that has been founded to solely look into corruption around the world, recently released a 363-page document about corruption in sport. Three hundred and sixty-three pages and it’s not comprehensive, it’s an entree of sports corruption.
Sports make annually somewhere between 120 and 200 billion dollars. That isn’t a past time; that’s an unstoppable industry. Often it’s international nature makes legal matters tricky. It’s often ruled over by unaccountable amateurs or biased team owners. Taxes are often waived. Fans are more into it than they are politics. And governments help fund it.
It was a mix of sport, power and politics that pressured Sebastian Coe, the newly elected IAAF chairman. Coe has come into his position as something as a reformer, everyone knows the trouble his predecessor is in, everyone knows of the problems with Russian athletics and it was a big job.
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