By Sportingintelligence 14 March 2012 An anti-doping conference at Twickenham today includes an appearance by UKAD’s Richard Redman, the official who personally oversaw the investigation into the Martin Gleeson & Hull FC rugby league drugs cover-up. The Mail on Sunday and Sportingintelligence covered this in depth earlier this year. Articles linked here. Questions remain, however, […]

* By Sportingintelligence 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The investigation related to drug use by players at […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The […]

. THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon reflects on the British Olympic […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 SPORT England, the funding body that hands out taxpayers money to sports governing bodies, was kept in the dark over alleged breaches of the UK National Anti-Doping policy, Sportingintelligence can reveal  – meaning a governing body is continuing to receive a £28m […]

* By Sportingintelligence 1 February 2012 The document scans below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. That related to drug use by players at Hull FC rugby league club last year. Read the latest updates elsewhere on […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 16 January 2012 SEAN Long, the former Wigan, St Helens, England and Great Britain international rugby league star, has spoken for the first time – exclusively to Sportingintelligence – about his role in the rugby drugs scandal at Hull FC that led to Martin Gleeson […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year. 15 January 2012 The former Great Britain rugby league international Martin Gleeson has spoken today for the first time about the circumstances in which he came to fail a drugs test, and how more widespread use of a stimulant was covered up. His story, and a […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year EXCLUSIVE 12 September 2011 Garry O’Connor, a Scotland striker who played for Birmingham City in the Premier League, failed a drugs test for cocaine while at the club and served a secret ban as he sought and received help for drink and drug problems, Sportingintelligence […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 May 2011 An investigation by Sportingintelligence has found that at least five professional sportsmen have failed drugs tests – and in three cases been banned – after taking supplements, including diet pills, marketed by the same company that has issued private product recalls because […]