Independence, interests, and integrated sport integrity

This chapter is the concluding chapter of the book. It focuses on practical and policy challenges for the necessary reforms. It highlights how weak governance, built-in conflicts of interest, and the resultant corruption that has been witnessed in the hypercommodified world of sport have created a fertile market for betting manipulation and crime. The chapter claims that better and more consistent conceptual coordination of sport integrity and sport betting integrity is crucial as a precursor to policy change. In the absence of fresh start, ab initio, better ways of managing conflicting interests, overcoming inadequate regulation, and developing better accountability through governmental coordination are necessary. The inevitable development it is argued will be a globally coordinated integrity agency or system – potentially integrated with existing anti-doping structures – to oversee both sporting and sport betting sectors with both civil and legal powers.