A step towards better governance in sports: A guideline

Over several decades serious questions about the governance standards of sport have surfaced in the public with irregular intervals. In the past couple of years, however, the accumulation of scandals in sport has grown so intensely that the credibility of sport and its organisations is shaken fundamentally, threatening the public trust in sport as a lever of positive social and cultural values in democratic societies. In the course of the years the need for not only pointing to the obvious problems, but also to search for solutions, became ever more urgent.