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Progressive athlete start-up movement aiming to inspire athletes and drive change across the world of sport
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2024 wrapped up! It's been an important and challenging year from anti-doping scandals, match-fixing schemes and the ongoing demands for athletes' rights and athletes' voices to be heard and upheld.
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Athletes are calling for reforms to ensure selection is based on merit, not politics or bias. Transparent and consistent processes are vital to protecting athletes and maintaining trust in the Olympic Movement. @iocmedia
Full athletes' letter to the IOC bit.ly/ioc128
Full athletes' letter to the IOC bit.ly/ioc128
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Athletes are calling for reforms to ensure selection is based on merit, not politics or bias. Transparent and consistent processes are vital to protecting athletes and maintaining trust in the Olympic Movement. @iocmedia
Full athletes' letter to the IOC bit.ly/ioc128
Full athletes' letter to the IOC bit.ly/ioc128
"While the IOC has developed clear eligibility & qualification criteria intended to ensure fairness & universality, these are often disregarded or manipulated by NOCs &/or NFs who favour subjective, non-transparent processes" Open letter to the IOC
Read all bit.ly/ioc128
Read all bit.ly/ioc128
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"While the IOC has developed clear eligibility & qualification criteria intended to ensure fairness & universality, these are often disregarded or manipulated by NOCs &/or NFs who favour subjective, non-transparent processes" Open letter to the IOC
Read all bit.ly/ioc128
Read all bit.ly/ioc128
60+ international athletes have issued an open letter urging the IOC to enforce fair, transparent, and accountable Olympic selection processes. Athletes deserve clarity, consistency, and a system that upholds the values of sport.
Read below or bit.ly/ioc128
Read below or bit.ly/ioc128
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
60+ international athletes have issued an open letter urging the IOC to enforce fair, transparent, and accountable Olympic selection processes. Athletes deserve clarity, consistency, and a system that upholds the values of sport.
Read below or bit.ly/ioc128
Read below or bit.ly/ioc128
“it appears this investigation's intent is to intimidate and suppress whistleblowers. [If...] accurate, WADA is not defending clean sport but is continuing to defend a cover-up.” Congress letter to WADA @apnews.com
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Congress critical of WADA's inquiry to find leaker
A bipartisan group in Congress has sent a letter to the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency criticizing that group for opening an investigation into who leaked information that led to the agency clea...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
“it appears this investigation's intent is to intimidate and suppress whistleblowers. [If...] accurate, WADA is not defending clean sport but is continuing to defend a cover-up.” Congress letter to WADA @apnews.com
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LOOKING TO 2026 ➡️
🗣️ Athletes deserve not only a platform but meaningful and legal power. This will only be possible if collective bargaining rights for Olympic and international athletes are embedded in the Olympic Movement. @FairSportOrg
Support: buff.ly/I5ph501
🗣️ Athletes deserve not only a platform but meaningful and legal power. This will only be possible if collective bargaining rights for Olympic and international athletes are embedded in the Olympic Movement. @FairSportOrg
Support: buff.ly/I5ph501
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
LOOKING TO 2026 ➡️
🗣️ Athletes deserve not only a platform but meaningful and legal power. This will only be possible if collective bargaining rights for Olympic and international athletes are embedded in the Olympic Movement. @FairSportOrg
Support: buff.ly/I5ph501
🗣️ Athletes deserve not only a platform but meaningful and legal power. This will only be possible if collective bargaining rights for Olympic and international athletes are embedded in the Olympic Movement. @FairSportOrg
Support: buff.ly/I5ph501
YEAR IN REVIEW 🗓️
🤺 440+ fencers: Open letter urging the FIE to restore independent checks for Russian/Belarusian AIN applicants.
™️ Paralympic sponsors: Campaign to spotlight contradictions of IPC sponsors amid Russia’s ongoing aggression.
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
🤺 440+ fencers: Open letter urging the FIE to restore independent checks for Russian/Belarusian AIN applicants.
™️ Paralympic sponsors: Campaign to spotlight contradictions of IPC sponsors amid Russia’s ongoing aggression.
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
YEAR IN REVIEW 🗓️
🤺 440+ fencers: Open letter urging the FIE to restore independent checks for Russian/Belarusian AIN applicants.
™️ Paralympic sponsors: Campaign to spotlight contradictions of IPC sponsors amid Russia’s ongoing aggression.
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
🤺 440+ fencers: Open letter urging the FIE to restore independent checks for Russian/Belarusian AIN applicants.
™️ Paralympic sponsors: Campaign to spotlight contradictions of IPC sponsors amid Russia’s ongoing aggression.
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
2025 REVIEW 🗓️ OLYMPIC MOVEMENT:
We sent a letter to the new IOC President, Kirsty Conventy, focused on:
⚖️ Collective bargaining & fair compensation
📷 Reforming Rule 40
🗣️ Abolishing Rule 50
📝 Independent athlete rep.
🥇 Overhaul global anti-doping governance
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
We sent a letter to the new IOC President, Kirsty Conventy, focused on:
⚖️ Collective bargaining & fair compensation
📷 Reforming Rule 40
🗣️ Abolishing Rule 50
📝 Independent athlete rep.
🥇 Overhaul global anti-doping governance
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
2025 REVIEW 🗓️ OLYMPIC MOVEMENT:
We sent a letter to the new IOC President, Kirsty Conventy, focused on:
⚖️ Collective bargaining & fair compensation
📷 Reforming Rule 40
🗣️ Abolishing Rule 50
📝 Independent athlete rep.
🥇 Overhaul global anti-doping governance
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
We sent a letter to the new IOC President, Kirsty Conventy, focused on:
⚖️ Collective bargaining & fair compensation
📷 Reforming Rule 40
🗣️ Abolishing Rule 50
📝 Independent athlete rep.
🥇 Overhaul global anti-doping governance
More of 2025: bit.ly/gafs25
YEAR IN REVIEW 🗓️
🇨🇦 CANADA: We provided a formal submission to the Future of Sport in Canada Commission outlining a bold vision to radically reconstruct the Canadian sports system.
⚖️ ANTI-DOPING: We worked closely with athletes demanding wholesale reform at WADA
bit.ly/gafs25
🇨🇦 CANADA: We provided a formal submission to the Future of Sport in Canada Commission outlining a bold vision to radically reconstruct the Canadian sports system.
⚖️ ANTI-DOPING: We worked closely with athletes demanding wholesale reform at WADA
bit.ly/gafs25
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
YEAR IN REVIEW 🗓️
🇨🇦 CANADA: We provided a formal submission to the Future of Sport in Canada Commission outlining a bold vision to radically reconstruct the Canadian sports system.
⚖️ ANTI-DOPING: We worked closely with athletes demanding wholesale reform at WADA
bit.ly/gafs25
🇨🇦 CANADA: We provided a formal submission to the Future of Sport in Canada Commission outlining a bold vision to radically reconstruct the Canadian sports system.
⚖️ ANTI-DOPING: We worked closely with athletes demanding wholesale reform at WADA
bit.ly/gafs25
Former national team athletes suing Water Polo Canada for $5.5M alleging years of abuse, harassment & toxic culture between 2004–2016. They claim coaches used threats, humiliation & tolerated sexual/homophobic misconduct @kevenbreton.bsky.social
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Water Polo Canada aurait été informé dès 2001 d’allégations
Selon des documents déposés en cour, Water Polo Canada était au fait depuis 2001 d’allégations de comportements inappropriés visant certains de ses entraîneurs.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Former national team athletes suing Water Polo Canada for $5.5M alleging years of abuse, harassment & toxic culture between 2004–2016. They claim coaches used threats, humiliation & tolerated sexual/homophobic misconduct @kevenbreton.bsky.social
ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/22089...
ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/22089...
2025 Wrap-Up! Our team at Global Athlete and FairSport extend our gratitude to all the athletes, advocates and allies who have driven our athletes’ first movement forward this year.
🔗 End of Year Message www.globalathlete.org/our-word/202...
🔗 End of Year Message www.globalathlete.org/our-word/202...
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
2025 Wrap-Up! Our team at Global Athlete and FairSport extend our gratitude to all the athletes, advocates and allies who have driven our athletes’ first movement forward this year.
🔗 End of Year Message www.globalathlete.org/our-word/202...
🔗 End of Year Message www.globalathlete.org/our-word/202...
@sammobile.com you suspended shipments to Russia. Yet your IPC sponsorship helps reboot Russia & Belarus back on the world stage. @paralympics.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
@sammobile.com you suspended shipments to Russia. Yet your IPC sponsorship helps reboot Russia & Belarus back on the world stage. @paralympics.org
📢 Allianz you pledged support for Ukrainian refugees. But standing with an International Paralympic Committee that reinstates Russia & Belarus risks insuring impunity instead of justice. @paralympics.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
📢 Allianz you pledged support for Ukrainian refugees. But standing with an International Paralympic Committee that reinstates Russia & Belarus risks insuring impunity instead of justice. @paralympics.org
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The decision by the International Paralympic Committee to lift the ban on Russia and Belarus has handed Vladimir Putin an unprecedented propaganda opportunity at Milan Cortina 2026 and @la28games.bsky.social. Analysis in this *free to read* edition of the #ZeusFiles open.substack.com/pub/duncanma...
Paralympics offer Putin golden propaganda opportunity
Ukraine claims Kremlin targeted Asian and African countries to vote for Russia’s suspension from the IPC to be lifted and warn that it will overshadow Andrew Parsons third term as President
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The decision by the International Paralympic Committee to lift the ban on Russia and Belarus has handed Vladimir Putin an unprecedented propaganda opportunity at Milan Cortina 2026 and @la28games.bsky.social. Analysis in this *free to read* edition of the #ZeusFiles open.substack.com/pub/duncanma...
📢 @omegawatches.bsky.social you paused shipments to Russia. Yet your support for the International Paralympic Committee, that is welcoming Russia and Belarus, turns back time on accountability.
@paralympics.org
#StandWithUkraine
@paralympics.org
#StandWithUkraine
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
📢 @omegawatches.bsky.social you paused shipments to Russia. Yet your support for the International Paralympic Committee, that is welcoming Russia and Belarus, turns back time on accountability.
@paralympics.org
#StandWithUkraine
@paralympics.org
#StandWithUkraine
Coca-Cola said no more Coke in Russia, but by backing an IPC that’s reserving Russia & Belarus, their sponsorship is refreshing Putin’s agenda.
#standwithukraine
#standwithukraine
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Coca-Cola said no more Coke in Russia, but by backing an IPC that’s reserving Russia & Belarus, their sponsorship is refreshing Putin’s agenda.
#standwithukraine
#standwithukraine
📢 AB InBev, you promised to leave Russia.
🍺 But sponsoring the International Paralympic Committee that readmits Russia & Belarus is still filling Putin’s glass.
#standwithukraine @paralympics.org
🍺 But sponsoring the International Paralympic Committee that readmits Russia & Belarus is still filling Putin’s glass.
#standwithukraine @paralympics.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
📢 AB InBev, you promised to leave Russia.
🍺 But sponsoring the International Paralympic Committee that readmits Russia & Belarus is still filling Putin’s glass.
#standwithukraine @paralympics.org
🍺 But sponsoring the International Paralympic Committee that readmits Russia & Belarus is still filling Putin’s glass.
#standwithukraine @paralympics.org
Global Athlete and FairSport have worked in partnership since 2019 to challenge abuse, demand integrity & defend athlete rights.
📖Today, we release Five Years of Partnership: a chronicle of our relentless pursuit for an athlete-centred sporting world.
bit.ly/fyps19
📖Today, we release Five Years of Partnership: a chronicle of our relentless pursuit for an athlete-centred sporting world.
bit.ly/fyps19
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Global Athlete and FairSport have worked in partnership since 2019 to challenge abuse, demand integrity & defend athlete rights.
📖Today, we release Five Years of Partnership: a chronicle of our relentless pursuit for an athlete-centred sporting world.
bit.ly/fyps19
📖Today, we release Five Years of Partnership: a chronicle of our relentless pursuit for an athlete-centred sporting world.
bit.ly/fyps19
The @paralympics.org have reinstated Russia and Belarus, choosing to favor aggressors over the athletes they serve.
Our statement below ⬇️
Our statement below ⬇️
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The @paralympics.org have reinstated Russia and Belarus, choosing to favor aggressors over the athletes they serve.
Our statement below ⬇️
Our statement below ⬇️
We join our colleagues at the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation in calling for immediate action on the disappearance of human rights and athlete safety advocate Anatol Kotau who is currently listed on Russian & Belarusian wanted registers.
bit.ly/bmak8
bit.ly/bmak8
August 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We join our colleagues at the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation in calling for immediate action on the disappearance of human rights and athlete safety advocate Anatol Kotau who is currently listed on Russian & Belarusian wanted registers.
bit.ly/bmak8
bit.ly/bmak8
Over 440 international fencers from 40 countries call on the FIE to reverse its decision to reinstate Russian and Belarusian athletes and resume thorough checks of athletes applying for AIN status.
Full Letter: bit.ly/fie25440
Full Letter: bit.ly/fie25440
July 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Over 440 international fencers from 40 countries call on the FIE to reverse its decision to reinstate Russian and Belarusian athletes and resume thorough checks of athletes applying for AIN status.
Full Letter: bit.ly/fie25440
Full Letter: bit.ly/fie25440
The FIE has ended independent checks of neutral athletes and instead requesting these Russian and Belarusian athletes to sign an oath that they support peace and do not support Russia’s war in Ukraine.
www.thesportsexaminer.com/fencing-inte...
www.thesportsexaminer.com/fencing-inte...
FENCING: International federation ends independent checks of “neutral” athletes, requires only a written promise now by Russians and Belarusians - The Sports Examiner
FENCING: International federation ends independent checks of “neutral” athletes, requires only a written promise now by Russians and Belarusians - The Sports Examiner - Your all-in-one coverage of Oly...
www.thesportsexaminer.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The FIE has ended independent checks of neutral athletes and instead requesting these Russian and Belarusian athletes to sign an oath that they support peace and do not support Russia’s war in Ukraine.
www.thesportsexaminer.com/fencing-inte...
www.thesportsexaminer.com/fencing-inte...
LET’S MOVE? Let’s move forward on athletes’ rights.
On the eve of new presidential era for the Olympics, we’re looking forward to seeing the evolution of human rights for athletes: compensation, protection, and freedom of association and expression.
#letsmove #olympicday
On the eve of new presidential era for the Olympics, we’re looking forward to seeing the evolution of human rights for athletes: compensation, protection, and freedom of association and expression.
#letsmove #olympicday
June 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
LET’S MOVE? Let’s move forward on athletes’ rights.
On the eve of new presidential era for the Olympics, we’re looking forward to seeing the evolution of human rights for athletes: compensation, protection, and freedom of association and expression.
#letsmove #olympicday
On the eve of new presidential era for the Olympics, we’re looking forward to seeing the evolution of human rights for athletes: compensation, protection, and freedom of association and expression.
#letsmove #olympicday
And now it’s time for the Olympics to follow suit.
“The House settlement will pay…a whopping $2.8 billion in backpay from (NIL) compensation. Even more groundbreaking, the settlement paves the way for schools, for the first time ever, to directly compensate athletes” @rossdellenger.bsky.social @ncaa.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And now it’s time for the Olympics to follow suit.
“The House settlement will pay…a whopping $2.8 billion in backpay from (NIL) compensation. Even more groundbreaking, the settlement paves the way for schools, for the first time ever, to directly compensate athletes” @rossdellenger.bsky.social @ncaa.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“The House settlement will pay…a whopping $2.8 billion in backpay from (NIL) compensation. Even more groundbreaking, the settlement paves the way for schools, for the first time ever, to directly compensate athletes” @rossdellenger.bsky.social @ncaa.bsky.social
“A federal judge has ruled that the men’s professional tennis tour cannot retaliate against players who join an ongoing lawsuit against it, nor against players who consider joining the lawsuit.” @mattfutterman.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...
Judge rules ATP Tour cannot retaliate against players who join PTPA tennis lawsuit
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May 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“A federal judge has ruled that the men’s professional tennis tour cannot retaliate against players who join an ongoing lawsuit against it, nor against players who consider joining the lawsuit.” @mattfutterman.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...