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Drastic increase in social media abuse against athletes prompts ground-breaking new service
By Sameer Naik
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Johannesburg - “Fuc g ni r, leave football you fuc pig.” This is just one of the many racist messages English footballer Tyron Mings has received on social media in the past few months.
Mings, an Aston Villa defender, has been targeted by social media trolls on several occasions in the past year, with the latest incident occurring last weekend when the Premier League team suffered a defeat at the hands of leaders Manchester City.
Responding to the latest hateful message he received, the English footballer tweeted: “Another day in the life of social media with no filter.
France acts to bring anti-doping rules into line with new Code
France has finally moved to bring its anti-doping rules into line with the new World Anti-Doping Code.
The 2024 Summer Olympic host used a Ministerial order presented in Cabinet last week to transpose the Code s provisions into national law.
The move comes in the wake of the dispatch of a Corrective Action Report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) earlier this year.
This is thought to have given France three months to regularise its position.
WADA told
insidethegames on today that it was reviewing the text of the legislation to ensure it is in line with the revised Code.
Monday, 19 April 2021
Three key reforms to the governance of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have been proposed by the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) and outlined at its virtual annual meeting.
The iNADO chair, Michael Ask, said the umbrella body s governance review had concluded that WADA s Foundation Board must be representative of a wider group of stakeholders.
It also said the WADA Executive Committee should be composed of more independent experts and that an independent monitoring mechanism should be established.
For the Foundation Board to conduct its task with credibility, members heard, a strict separation of the roles and people between the Board and the Executive Committee should be implemented.
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