The Latest Breaking News from Sport Integrity Australia

Peter Bol’s lawyers claim ‘blunder of epic proportions’ after independent labs find no EPO

Lawyers for the Australian Olympic star have blasted Sport Integrity Australia in a letter alleging that Bol’s sample which tested positive for EPO never actually contained the performance-enhancing drug

The Guardian - AU · Mar 28, 2023

Peter Bol: what does an atypical doping test result mean for the Australian athlete?

The Olympian says a B sample has exonerated him but for Sport Integrity Australia the case is not closed and for Bol his race is not yet run

The Guardian - AU · Feb 15, 2023

Australia investigates after contradictory doping samples ‘exonerate’ Olympian Peter Bol

The 800m runner has been cleared to return to training and competition

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2023

Former Softball Australia employee says allegations of assault were ignored by the sport

A former employee of Softball Australia has accused the organisation of a systemic failure for failing to take seriously her allegation of sexual harassment and assault by a senior administrator in the sport.

ABC News · May 10, 2022

Sport Integrity Australia's report represents a reckoning for West Australian gymnastics – but has justice really been done?

Children forced to train on empty stomachs and falling on their heads. Young athletes told to manage the welfare of their own coaches. Girls starving themselves before enduring skinfold tests to avoid the horror of gaining weight, and sending them into lifelong patterns of disordered eating.

The Conversation · Apr 22, 2022

WAIS gymnastics review details physical, emotional abuse of child athletes, body shaming

A review into allegations of physical and emotional abuse of young female gymnasts on an elite program at the WA Institute of Sport details a host of complaints including body shaming and separation of child athletes from their families.

ABC News · Apr 20, 2022

Leading gymnastics coach Peggy Liddick sanctioned for harassment of Olympic athlete

The Gymnastics Australia Hall of Fame member is sanctioned but not stood down after a tribunal found some claims of harassment from gymnasts to be true.

ABC News · Feb 3, 2022