Organisation: World Anti-Doping Agency

The Games of the XXXII Olympiad have begun, played under the Olympic motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (faster, higher, stronger). But to what extent will the Tokyo Olympic Games also be litigious? Mark Mangan, Ananya Mitra and Miranda Elvidge of Dechert consider the categories of disputes that may arise. 

27 July 2021

Sports law specialist Brianna Quinn, whose clients have included FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, has been promoted to counsel at Geneva boutique Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler.

09 June 2021

A Swiss court has overturned a CAS award that handed a Chinese swimmer an eight-year doping ban – finding that the tribunal chair, former Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini, had shown bias in tweets criticising Chinese dog meat eating practices and referencing skin colour.

15 January 2021

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to rule on Russia’s four-year ban from all major sporting events for manipulating laboratory data – with both parties instructing external counsel.

10 January 2020

At the latest Helsinki International Arbitration Day, delegates considered the forces shaping the future of international arbitration, including who will drive change and how sector-specific cases relating to sport, for example, can inspire new approaches.

12 July 2018

UPDATED. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has named the arbitrators who will hear disputes and doping cases at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month.

26 January 2018

Caster Semenya, the South African middle distance runner who won a gold medal at the World Athletics Championship in London on Sunday, is among several hyperandrogenous athletes who will find out next month if a panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport will strike out regulations that would force them to medically reduce their natural testosterone levels or be barred from competition.

17 August 2017

The World eSports Association – which was formed six months ago to professionalise competitive video gaming – has developed an option for ad hoc arbitration of doping and other disputes under its own dedicated rules, with Zurich as default seat.

14 November 2016

A Canadian sports law expert who reported on Russian state-sponsored doping at the Sochi Winter Olympics has received his first appointment as an ICSID arbitrator in recent weeks, along with a former Covington & Burling partner and a Zambian professor at Cornell Law School.

26 October 2016

After resolving doping disputes at first instance at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Court of Arbitration for Sport could be given a more general authority to do so.

10 October 2016