Existing Needs and Challenges
A key challenge in preventing and fighting, harmful irregularities in sport is to detect and expose these sport irregularities and other acts of wrongdoing in sport. One of the most direct approaches of shining the light on aforementioned harmful irregularities in sport, is whistleblowing, that is the disclosure of information related to corrupt, illegal, fraudulent or hazardous activities being committed in or by public sport or private sector sport business and autonomous sport organizations, which are of concern to, or, threaten, the public interest – to sport individuals or sport entities believed to be able to effect action. Sport whistleblowers are sportswomen, sportsmen, fans, supporters, athletes, athlete’s parents, coaches, instructors, trainers, referees, sport employees, sport agents, sport executives, sport business partners or sport customers of a company, an administrative sport body or a sport federation organization sport union or club, who [in good faith] point out: risks, illegal practices or unethical behavior, such as: