Sarah Benson to face great problems such as CEO of Sport Integrity Australia

The connections remained between criminal figures and some athletes, he said. “It is not necessarily widespread, but it is happening at different levels of sport and through different sports.

“It is not only the organized criminal element, from the manipulation of competitions or undermine events or provides illegal drugs. It is also that element that is not organized, they are only individuals.

“Ultimately, organized crime is operational to generate wealth. This is a concern.”

While the integrity agency fights the questions relating to the integrity related to gambling, has assumed the exclusive responsibility of a national information sharing platform that had previously been managed in collaboration with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and which provides notices on suspicious bets.

Benson, who joined the FP as a chemical of trainees when he was building the ability to manage explosives to protect Sydney’s Olympics in 2000, deals with the integrity agency five years after being established as a national guard dog for sport.

The agency has taken on the function of the former Australian sports anti -doping authority as part of its wider role, and one of its challenges is to guarantee trust in the global battle against drugs that improve performance.

The World Anti -Doping Agency was criticized for the management of positive tests for 23 Chinese swimmers before the Tokyo Olympics and beyond an agreement with the male tennis player n. 1 and the Australian champion Open Jannik Sinner, in which he received a ban on three months after having been involuntarily administered the clossebra steroid.

Benson said that it was right for people to question the decisions and that Australia used its place for the work groups and the Wada executive committee (on which the Minister of Sport Anika Wells sits) to push for the improvements in the system.

“That potential lack of trust in a global system has absolutely an impact on us as a national anti -doping organization because we are supporting the code (Wada) here in Australia,” said Benson.

“The public and the community of athletes rightly ask for transparency and consistency, and this is how we support us through those formal groups … we discovered that it is the most effective way to influence change.”

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Benson said that another goal was to lead a national conversation on the safeguarding of children in sport.

According to the data, it is about 60 safeguard complaints or discrimination at any time.

Last year he finalized 25 investigations by examining over 70 accusations of misconduct, determining 34 violations of integrity policies within sport.

Both he said that in the six months in February, children’s safeguard concerns represented 100 % of the complaints under investigation.

“It is an area on which we must focus and that we can drive at national level,” he said.