"Good governance and autonomy are strongly linked; they are two sides of the same coin.” This maxim, taken from the background document to the Olympic Agenda 2020 proposals approved almost exactly a year ago by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Monaco, encapsulates why 2015 has been such a disastrous year for advocates of maximum autonomy for sports organisations.

The mighty Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has spoken.

Michel Platini's lawyers have reacted with fury after a spokesman for FIFA's Ethics Committee reportedly said that the Frenchman was set to be banned from football.

The President of South America's football governing body has resigned following his arrest for alleged corruption last week.

Michel Platini has failed in a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) bid to have his 90-day ban from football lifted - although FIFA will not be allowed to extend his suspension.

Recent scandals surrounding the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and FIFA are not the same and concern “different issues”, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach claimed here today as he expressed confidence that steps are being taken in the right direction to address the problems within both governing bodies.

An independent financial audit will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) into grants it awards to the various International Federations and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in a bid to increase transparency within sport in the midst of corruption and doping scandals, Thomas Bach announced here today. 

Sports Federations have a “strategic choice” to release financial records in a bid to improve transparency, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) professor Didier Cossin claimed here as his company began an analysis into the governance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Liberian Football Association President Musa Bility has launched an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after FIFA’s Ad-hoc Electoral Committee rejected his candidacy for the head of world football’s governing body in November.

Jack Ma, the Chinese internet entrepreneur behind the Alibaba Group, has come to FIFA’s aid at this time of crisis for world football’s governing body.

UEFA President Michel Platini vowed to “tell the truth and only the truth” as he arrived at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for the beginning of his appeal against his 90-day suspension here today. 

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) will not appoint an interim President despite current head Alfredo Hawit’s indictment on corruption charges by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), it has been announced today.

The welfare of migrants working on construction sites for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was one of the key topics at the second meeting of the tournament’s Organising Committee, with acting FIFA secretary general Markus Kattner urging the Qatari Government to “accelerate the labour reform process”.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has vowed to renew the trust in sport in the wake of a series of corruption and doping scandals, describing recent developments in some sports as “particularly upsetting”.

Beneficiaries of FIFA’s $350 million (£233 million/€322 million) Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) are falling down on basic record-keeping requirements, in spite of the crisis that has brought the governing body to its knees, leading acting secretary general Markus Kattner to highlight “major deficiencies”.