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Freelance. Winner of the 2023 IJ4EU Impact Award with @PhilippeAuclair, @jckkrr, and @MenarySteve for our investigation, 'The Devil is in The Data'
Jul 16 7 tweets 4 min read
🧵The 23 Chinese swimmers: The first two pics are from @wada_ama's PR. The third is an opening line from @WorldAquatics's Report. It only investigated if the Aquatics community had acted correctly & not if a decision not to prov. suspend was correct.

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A very interesting point: @WorldAquatics is not aware if a federation has EVER appealed a Decision to prov. suspend or not to prov. suspend an athlete after a positive test… Image
Dec 21, 2023 7 tweets 5 min read
🧵This Report from the @CommonsCMS ignores A MASSIVE regulatory back door that I, along with @PhilippeAuclair; @jckkrr; @MenarySteve; & @samindrakunti have been investigating. Illegal gambling operators are using European sport to advertise through the 'white label' system… @CommonsCMS @PhilippeAuclair @jckkrr @MenarySteve @samindrakunti …One of these companies is Kaiyun, sponsor of @NFFC. There are many others, all of which are owned by BOE United Technology Corporation. This company advertises at @premierleague games through an IOM company called #TGPEurope, which has links to organised crime…


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Oct 15, 2019 10 tweets 8 min read
I thought it might be valuable to upload my slides from #PTG2019 on the Caster Semenya case…the slides will follow in the thread below. 1. Caster Semenya was born and raised as a woman, but was outed as a "Woman, but maybe not 100%" by the IAAF's Pierre Weiss in 2009 when she was 19: reuters.com/article/us-ath… #PTG2019