Match fixing is a growing problem in international sports. The crime of match fixing has now reached one of the most popular sports overseas, which would be football. FIFA has the problem of match fixing. In 2018 a BBC documentary uncovered that ninety-six officials/referees were taking bribes, including one official who was going to be an assistant referee during the 2018 world cup in Russia. A Kenyan referee by the name of Aden Marwa was caught on film taking a 600 hundred dollar gift, since the incident Marwa resigned. During the 2018 world cup referees were making close to 70,000 dollars while also getting around a 3,000 dollar bonus. Assistant referees brought in around 25,000 dollars not anywhere close to what a referee makes. FIFA should be paying the assistant referees more to help prevent bribery. With amount of betting that happens during the world cup and for all of football in European sports the likely hood of someone getting bribed as dramatically increased. FIFA plans on hiring video assistant referees to help the problem of match fixing go down. Will this help completely stop match fixing? probably not but it is a good step In the right direction. With the increase in new technology especially when it comes to sports it is getting harder for law enforcement officials to catch these criminals. The problem in todays world is that with the advanced technology that the world has it can allow these people to match fix in another country, not allowing the country that the crime committed in to go after them. Crimes of match fixing have gone undetected because of the lack of publicity that is gets. Now with more scandals coming out maybe match fixing will finally be given more thought, allowing people to finally understand how big this problem really is.

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Match fixing in eSports is an increasingly big problem for the industry, Not only is the problem getting worse but the issue of match fixing has now impacted the best players in eSports. For example in 2016 superstar player Lee Hyun of StarCraft was arrested by Korean police. The twenty-three year old was arrested with eight other players including financial backers and brokers. They were arrested for match fixing, accused of throwing two matches in the KeSPA Cup. For throwing the matches Hyun received 60,000 dollars from the gambling ring; in January of that year Hyun was found guilty of throwing of throwing another match for around 26,000 dollars. This gambling ring was found to have corrupted more players in the past. The largest amount of money taken from the gabling ring was around 87,000 dollars for throwing a match. why do players seem to want to jump the gun on match fixing? one of the big problems is that most of the prizes that players win do not offer that much money. The fact also that a lot of the eSports competitions are winner take all encourages players to take more money from outside sources. fixing matches for some of these players is another way for them to make money, is there a sense for feeling bad for them yes, but resorting to match fixing ruins the spirit of competition. Brokers have told players that everyone is doing so why not join in. This makes players think that this Is the norm for eSports. With the growing popularity of eSports this type of activity will continue to grow, this type of environment should not be allowed in any sports what so ever. The impact of match fixing will start to effect the sports that we love the most sooner rather than later. The big question is what will we do about it?

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The industry of eSports has been growing in the last several years. With growing popularity around the world the scandals of match fixing have grown has well. In the last several years eSports has seen scandals of players getting involved with match fixing. With the rise in popularity the increase in cash flow has grown, and so has the wanting of players trying to cash out. In 2016 Game developer and competition sponsor Valve released that twenty-one players from the global Counter Strike team had confessed to match fixing. Seven of the players were banned from ever competing in any competitive gaming events. Valve had been keeping track of the players and found out that the players for NetcodeGuides and iBUYPOWER had been exchanging some valuable items after one of their matches. That was not the big reason why they fixed the match, they had cashed out bets of up to 10,000 dollars and had been given around 7,000 dollars worth of skins. This scandal illustrated a huge problem for eSports, the industry has there own sort of economy which allows players to trade very valuable items for real money. Players will risk their reputation and career to get a little bit of money on the side. In 2013 the second most popular game for Valve, Doda 2 had a player by the name of Aleksey Berezin bet against his own team in competition for 322 dollars. That 322 dollars became infamous around eSports. The banning of the players caught by Valve have seen a change in the way game sponsors handle match fixing in eSports. The reason that the Doda 2 incident was so popular was because the player was in a higher tire of gaming. Other scandals in the past had not caught on because the players were not so big in the industry.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/23/match-fixing-comes-to-the-world-of-e-sports/

Match fixing in international sports has been a big problem. Especially now with todays modern technology and the growth in popularity of sports. Match fixing is different than taking a performance enhancing drug, when taking a performance enhancing drug the player is trying to get better at what he or she doses. This is still against the rules, but at least the players are trying to get better and outplay their competition. With match fixing the players are getting paid to lose, which destroys the essence of competition. This problem is huge in Asian sports, especially in Asian football. Over the past decade Asian football as been riddled with scandal after scandal. This came to light when in 2013 during the Asian Champions League when the referees were bribed by the Jebonbuk Motors were defending their title against Melbourne Victory. The Jebonbuk Motors were owned by Hyundai Motors, they had the highest wage bill and were outspending everyone. There was no reason for them to be in the spirit of match fixing. The Jebonbuk Motors did though, The scouts for the team bribed the referees 1000 dollars. The amazing part was that it only took 1000 dollars for the referees to be bribed. The popularity of the sport was low and this story did not get the publicity that a FIFA scandal would. The unpopularity of the sport has kept all of these scandals in the dark not bringing to light the serious problems in Asian football. The problem now is that that match fixing has now spread from Asian sports to European sports. In Singapore a man named Dan Tee was accused of being a match fixing syndicate accused of being in thirty-two different scandals. The spreading of match fixing has reached European sports, the next question that we should ask ourselves is, when will it become global?

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Doping in international sports is still a massive problem. Several of the international sport organizations have now come out and declared that here will be zero tolerance. Labeling this zero tolerance could stop the doping? actually it has not since the 2016 Olympics in RIO the IOC has tried to cut the doping down to nothing but there are ways for them to help get the doping down even farther. The first thing that they have to do is give more benefits to those who are whistle blowers. People should be praising those who blow the whistle on athletes that are doping up. The second thing that IOC can do is to enforce even more strict rules, regulations, and penalties. What the IOC should not is first time offenders should be suspended for fours years for the first time, If an athlete does test positive a second time then they should be banned for eight years. What would happen if an athlete were to be caught a third time, that athlete should be under consideration for being banned for life. The IOC should also be testing athletes around the clock so that way there is no time period for athletes who are doping from being able to get clean. There is a couple of problems that the IOC is going to run into. The first being what does zero tolerance even mean? does this mean that you are cannot take any drugs that are on the list? If you do need that specific drug on the list for a medical reason, will that athlete be suspended? The second problem is how often do you drug test these athletes? should we drug test them every month or every six months? These are some of the questions that we have to ask ourselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rkatz/2016/08/18/zero-tolerance-doping-policies-by-international-sports-organizations-have-created-zero-certainty/#15473efb7993

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Doping in international sports has been a problem. The Olympics has had the biggest problems when it comes to doping. The problems date back to the early 20th century. Back when the roman gladiators fought they would use plants to help with their endurance, speed, and injury recovery. As time went on people started to use other kind of performance enhancing drugs. Starting in the 1900’s athletes at the Olympics used strychnine, heroin, caffeine, and cocaine. When the 1930’s came around athletes widely used amphetamines to get the most out of themselves. In 1967 the International Olympic Committee made a list of band substances for the first time. The IOC was staring to crack down on doping in the Olympics, then in 1972 the IOC introduced anti doping test for the Munich games that year. This was a great start but athletes still doped at an extremely high rate. The IOC held an international conference in 1999 about athletes still doping, the IOC found out that there was rampant doping in the Tour de France in 1998 discovered by the police. At this conference the World Anti Doping Agency was founded (WADA). Even after the WADA was created athletes would still try to get way with doping. In 2006 a bunch of Spanish athletes would receive injections of performance enhancing drugs. As much as we can penalize athletes for doping, they will always find a way to get over the top. Maybe it is in our nature because of competition to do whatever it takes to be the best. The one thing that we do know that it is unfair for the other athletes that honor the rules of competition. Maybe enforcing stricter rules on doping will help? As much as we try to get ride of doping in the Olympics there will always the those athletes that still do it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2219897/

Fan violence has led to some disturbing tragedies in human history. There is a good question, why does fan violence happen? In the article there are potentially three reasons to why fans act violently. The first being that of the biological theory, the theory suggest that humans have a fundamental behavior when it comes to violence. Sports is a way to get the violence out that has been building up inside of athletes and fans. The theory suggest that people need sports to vent out all of their aggression. The second theory is the phycological theory which states that violence in sports is caused by dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction in sports can be in a variety of ways, your team does not win, the referees miss a call that you think is there, or fans for the other team just wont stop harassing you. Fans can be dissatisfied very easily in many ways which can lead to violence. The third theory is social learning. For this theory fans can incite violence based on cues from the players on the field, fans have a social identity with their teams. The fans will start to create a unity with the players and coaches which leads to the opposing team being identified as being the enemy. When family members, coaches, or other players criticize their teams they are less prone to acting violently. With the social learning theory, when fans are punished there is less of a risk of that violent act happening again. There are ways to help prevent violence from happening. The first is having parents being involved with their kids from a young age, because parents have such an influence over kids lives they can teach them that violence is not the answer. Instituting fan penalties can help keep violence in check. The third and final way is to have coaches and teachers help kids in school deal with losing or something not going their way.

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Fan violence has been a problem for a number of sporting events. On May 29th 1985 soccer fans around the the world were stunned by the Heysel stadium disaster. On this day Liverpool was defending the European Champions Cup, Liverpool had won the previous year. The European champions cup in 1985 was held between Liverpool and Juventus. During the match tensions started to boil over and the Liverpool fans started throwing objects at the Juventus fans, the fans were separated by a chain link fence which did not do much. Around seven pm the trouble started with fans from the loverpool side braking through the fence that had a line of cops guarding it. The Jeventus fans tried to flee by climbing over wall Z in the stadium, too many fans tried to climb it and the wall collapsed. At the end of the day thirty-nine people died and 600 hundred people were injured. This disaster could have been prevented, the first thing that could have been done was to have better security. A line of cops and a fence was not going to prevent something like this from happening . Heysel stadium was also not in the condition to host an event like this. Heysel stadium had not been renovated in some time, the fifty fiver year old stadium was literally falling apart. The Union of European Football Associations did an inspection of the building, the problem with the inspection was that it only lasted thirty minutes. With the amount of people that showed up the stadium could not handle that amount of people. Security has improved since then but it should have never come to this. Fan violence like this should not belong in the sports world. With the lack of security and building maintenance at the event this type of tragedy was allowed to happen.

In an article posted by the New York Times, the article goes into detail about the corruption in international sports. The main focus of the article is on the illegal doping of the Russian track team during the Rio Olympics. The article points out that top officials in the International Association Athletics Federation covered up what was going on. Officials took payments so that way they could earn a little on the side but not have to say anything. The greedy behavior of these top officials undermined the fair competition in track in field. With the officials taking bribes, and the story being released this was possibly the biggest case of bribery, and fraud on an international stage in a very long time. The investigation led to the international Olympic committee not allowing the Russian track team to perform in the Olympics. This was huge this was the first time in a long time that this has happened. this incident led to sixty-eight members of the Russian track team being banned after the Track team in the London Olympics won seven gold medals. The international Olympic committee thought about not allowing Russia from competing in the Olympics altogether. The decision was close but allowed just for the track team to be banned. What this meant for the country of Russia was a bad look from two standpoints, the first was that they were trying to bid for the winter Olympics in Sochi this could have threatened there possible bid for the winter Olympics. The second problem was the look that it gave for the International Association Athletics Federation, could people ever really trust them ever again including the entire Russian Olympic team ever again? this will be determined in the future but this exposes international sports corruption. This is another case of an organization/committee that tried to look the other direction. With this much corruption the International Association Athletics Federation it makes you wonder how long has this been going on? Another question that this brings up is what other countries have done this or what countries are still doing this? We may never know but we can certainly take away several things from this story. The first is that the international sports world once again shows, that it is not as clean as people think it is. The second thing is that that international sports such as the Olympics needs stricture anti doping rules to prevent this type of situation from ever happening again. The third and final thing is in the next Olympics in 2020 with this type of incident happen again?

Sepp Blatter who was the former president of FIFA was arrested and charged with racketeering, corruption, and Money laundering. The former president of FIFA claimed that he not done what people were saying and knew nothing about any wrong doing. This arrest of Sepp Blatter and fourteen other colleges showed that the corruption at the time in FIFA was out of controlled and today continues to be a problem. The reason that FIFA has such a problem with corruption is because it acts like a monopoly, FIFA has absolute power over the world of soccer in Europe. No one wanted to challenge the power of the organization or say anything about what was going on in the organization. Countries that wanted to host the world cup gave money to FIFA, the bribery of money got worse over time. Many have considered FIFA to be like the mafia in the sense that they lined their pockets and allowed to do so by a godfather like figure, which would be Sepp Blatter. The power that FIFA has over the sport of soccer in Europe is huge, the reason for so much power is the fact that it is so popular with people and vast amounts of money from TV contracts, advertisers and, sponsors. With the more power that they got and keep getting corruption is still to be a problem in the future for FIFA. Organizations like FIFA with the more that is involved the more likely the evet of corruption will occur, left unchecked power with these organization can become out of control. Monopoly like organizations get greedy and want as much money as possible, with FIFA it was about which country was willing to pay the most to host the world cup. Another organization/ committee that did similar things was the international Olympic committee, the International Olympic Committee wanted “gifts” from the countries that wanted to host the summer and winter Olympics. With these two organizations it shows that organizations that gain a lot of power and act like monopolies will end up doing questionable things and eventually have corruption overtake the organization. FIFA and the International Olympic Committee need to be regulated better to prevent corruption, bribery and racketeering. Corruption in international sports will continue to be a problem for people in international sports if these organizations are not regulated. The international sports world continues to be in shock of what happened with FIFA.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-i-abrams/the-crimes-and-corruption-of-international-sports_b_7475844.html 

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