The 2012 Olympic Badminton Scandal: Match-Fixing, Code of Conduct Documents, and Women’s Sport

Blair, Kelsey

doi:10.1080/09523367.2018.1451330

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“…Empirical research on match-fixing steadily increased during the past decade (Vanwersch et al 2022). A considerable amount of research examined match-fixing based on single cases (e.g., Feltes 2013, Petropoulos andMaguire 2013), on single countries (e.g., Aquilina andChetcuti 2014, Lee 2017) or single sports events (e.g., Blair 2018). Although suggestions to curb match-fixing could be derived from the presented cases, quantitative figures were frequently lacking (Frenger et al 2019).…”

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Match-Fixing in European Sports: Attitudes and Experiences

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Over the past years, the scholarly interest in match-fixing has grown. Although several empirical studies have tried to map the prevalence of match-fixing, the scope has often been limited to a given country, sports discipline, level of sports, and/or type of match-fixing. Moreover, matchfixing is often stereotyped as a problem caused by external criminals, while match-fixing by internal stakeholders occurs on a larger scale. When it comes to internal stakeholders, research to date has mainly focused on the vulnerability of athletes and referees to match-fixing. Nevertheless, other internal stakeholders in sports can also be the instigators of match-fixing, and may have different attitudes toward match-fixing. This study aims to fill these gaps by examining match-fixing among various internal stakeholders (n = 4958) involved in different sports across Europe. The results showed that internal stakeholders' attitudes toward match-fixing were not uniform. Additionally, almost one fifth of the respondents indicated (in)direct matchfixing incidents in the questionnaire. The majority of the cases concerned sporting-related match-fixing, while our results also revealed that sportingand betting-related match-fixing can happen together. By examining various internal stakeholders' attitudes toward and experiences with match-fixing in European sports, this study could navigate future match-fixing prevention initiatives.

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Match-Fixing in European Sports: Attitudes and Experiences

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“…Most of the countries that were analyzed by the authors did not have adequate criminal systems to tackle this problem. Additionally, international sport federations are not always armed to discipline and sanctions athletes/teams that manipulate sport contests for competitive benefits (Blair, 2018). In fact, having a code of ethics does not always mean that a federation will use it adequately and implement it efficiently (Constandt & Willem, 2021).…”

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A Scoping Review of the Causes and Consequences of Fraud in Sport

Vanwersch

Willem

Constandt

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Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This study provides a structured overview of the literature published between 2010 and 2020 on the causes and consequences of fraud in sport using a systematic search strategy. Our results show that the current literature on this phenomenon is mostly focused on football as a specific type of sport, and on competition manipulation as a specific type of fraud. Guided by the routine activity theory, we observed that motivated offenders, suitable targets, and the lack of capable guardians render sport vulnerable for fraud in general, and for competition manipulation, corruption, financial fraud, and human trafficking in particular. The consequences of fraud in sport are mostly financial, through a diminution in the public's trust combined with a decrease in attendance and spectatorship to sport events. The phenomenon of fraud in sport remains strongly under-researched through empirical designs, and an interdisciplinary approach is required to tackle its complex nature and scope.

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