Agencies Call for Anti Corruption Sports Betting Agency - 12-09-08
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December 9 - The rising number of incidents relating to sportsbetting corruption has caused the heads of several top sports bodies in Europe to sit up and demand that the European Union take action in this phenomenon.
Members of the Sports Rights Owners Coalition met in Brussels last week to discuss the problem and formulated a report which was delivered to the European Union, with hopes that the issue will be addressed at the highest levels. The Coalition is made up of representatives from the football, rugby and cricket branches of sport.
One of the main demands made by the group was for the European Union to form an anti corruption agency that would work on a global scale to stamp out the problem in the sportsbetting industry. Among the measures suggested included the forced licensing of all bookmakers and even the ability to exclude nations from major sporting events such as the World Cup if they did not act within the boundaries of the anti corruption agency.
An advisor to the British National Governing Body of Sports said about the suggestions: "The meeting in Brussels saw the international sports community unite to urge politicians to apply the same focus to tackling betting corruption as they do doping. Just as the fight against doping turned the corner when every country's government signed up to take action, a similar approach is needed with sports betting. This means that an approach taken similar to that taken by the World Anti Doping Agency is needed."
"Match fixing is worse than doping, because it is cheating to lose, rather than cheating to win," commented the advisor.
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