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Entries filed under this earlier heading are kept on the register in The Brief. The address stays as it was.
The section keeps 60 entries filed between and , across 18 jurisdictions — United States · International · Switzerland · India. Each one names the actor, the jurisdiction and what changed; the table below lists the 24 newest, and The Brief carries the rest.
| Filed | Actor | Decision | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee | Operation Gold: what a United States medal actually pays | Fixed payments of 37,500, 22,500 and 15,000 dollars by medal, equal for Olympic and Paralympic athletes | |
| Olympic Solidarity Commission | Olympic Solidarity 2025–2028: where the 650 million goes | A plan of 650 million dollars, up ten per cent, split between world, continental and Games-participation programmes | |
| United States Congress | Medal prize money and the million-dollar line in the tax code | Medals and committee prize money are excluded from gross income unless adjusted gross income exceeds one million dollars | |
| International Olympic Committee Session and Executive Board | How an Olympic host is chosen now that there is no ballot | Bidding contests replaced by permanent Future Host Commissions running a continuous and a targeted dialogue; the seven-year rule no longer applies | |
| International Olympic Committee | The Host City Contract became the Olympic Host Contract, and gained human rights | The contract was renamed and human rights obligations referencing the UN Guiding Principles were written in as core requirements | |
| Anti-doping organisations in a registered testing pool | Three missed tests in twelve months: how the window actually moves | Any three missed tests or filing failures inside twelve months is a violation, and the twelve months run from the first of them | |
| United States Congress | The 24-hour reporting duty, and the ten-year limitation behind it | A duty to report suspected child abuse within 24 hours, with criminal exposure for failing it, and a ten-year civil limitation period | |
| Anti-doping organisations and results-management bodies | A provisional suspension is not a ban, and the difference is paid for | One is an interim measure before any finding; the other is a sanction after one, and only the second disqualifies results by itself | |
| Swiss Federal Supreme Court | Article 190: the only grounds on which a CAS award is set aside | An award from the Court of Arbitration for Sport can be challenged only on the five grounds listed in article 190(2) of the Swiss federal statute | |
| World Anti-Doping Agency | What changes in the World Anti-Doping Code for 2027 | A new Code approved on 5 December 2025 replaces the 2021 text from 1 January 2027 | |
| United States Congress | What Congress can do to the USOPC since the 2020 Act | Congress took the power to dissolve the USOPC board and decertify a national governing body, and raised athlete representation to one third | |
| Signatories to the World Anti-Doping Code | Signatory or Delegated Third Party: who actually answers | Only a Signatory is bound by the Code and can be found non-compliant; a contractor acting for one answers to the Signatory | |
| United States Congress | The Rodchenkov Act: whom it reaches, and what it costs | Doping conspiracy at major international competitions made a federal crime carrying up to ten years, fines and forfeiture | |
| World Anti-Doping Agency Compliance Review Committee | Non-compliance is not a sanction: how the compliance standard works | A Signatory is first put on a watchlist with a correction period; only after that does a formal non-compliance proposal follow, appealable to CAS | |
| Parliament of India | India wrote sports governance into statute. Where the interference line now runs | A statutory board recognises federations and a statutory tribunal decides their disputes with the powers of a civil court | |
| World Anti-Doping Agency | Article 10.13.2: when a provisional suspension counts towards the ban | Time served under a provisional suspension is credited only if the suspension was respected, and only from its effective date | |
| International Olympic Committee Executive Board | A suspended National Olympic Committee is not a banned team | Suspension removes the committee's rights, not the athletes' eligibility: they may compete, but not under flag, anthem or national uniform | |
| FIFA Council | When FIFA suspends a federation: which article it uses | Article 16(1) lets the Council suspend a member association with immediate effect, without waiting for Congress to confirm it | |
| International Olympic Committee Executive Board | What the Olympic Movement Code on manipulation actually forbids | A single text covering betting, manipulation, inside information and the duty to report, aligned with the Council of Europe convention | |
| NCAA Division I Council | The NCAA dropped its ban on betting on professional sports. What stayed | Betting on professional sport permitted from 22 November 2025; betting on college sport and sharing inside information still prohibited | |
| International Olympic Committee | Rule 50.2: where an athlete may speak, and where the ban still holds | Guidelines opened the mixed zone, press conferences and social media to expression; the field during competition and the podium stayed closed | |
| International Olympic Committee Executive Board | Rule 41: the three-year wait after representing another country | Three years from the last appearance for the former country, reducible only with the agreement of both NOCs and the International Federation | |
| International Federations and the IOC | Changing national team: the waiting period, sport by sport | Three years under the Olympic Charter, three years in athletics with a review panel, and a match-count test in football | |
| McLaren report · Vladimir Putin | Putin denies state-sponsored doping program, admits Russia has problem with doping | A state programme is denied while a doping problem is acknowledged |
Entries filed under The Brief, against everything filed the same month.
| Month | In The Brief | On the register | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 23 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 13 | 13 | ||
| 12 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 3 |
Jurisdictions named on the register, The Brief first.
| Jurisdiction | In The Brief | Entries | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 21 | 21 | |
| Russia | 19 | 19 | |
| International | 16 | 16 | |
| Chechnya | 4 | 4 | |
| Egypt | 2 | 2 | |
| Iran | 2 | 2 | |
| Albania | 1 | 1 | |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1 | |
| Brazil | 1 | 1 | |
| Dagestan | 1 | 1 |
Offices, bodies and people named on the register, The Brief first.
| Actor | Entries | Section | An entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Congress | 4 | Money & Ownership | Medal prize money and the million-dollar line in… |
| International Olympic Committee Executive Board | 3 | Geopolitics | A suspended National Olympic Committee is not a… |
| Ramzan Kadyrov | 3 | Athletes & Power | Kadyrov claims Fedor ‘realized his mistake,’… |
| UFC | 3 | Money & Ownership | New UFC owner will meet with president-elect Donald… |
| Dana White | 2 | Governance | UFC President Dana White explains support for… |
| Fedor Emelianenko | 2 | Governance | Fedor Emelianenko absent from Ministry of Sports… |
| International Olympic Committee | 2 | Mega-events | The Host City Contract became the Olympic Host… |
| Russian Ministry of Sport | 2 | Governance | Fedor Emelianenko absent from Ministry of Sports… |
| State Duma | 2 | Governance | Legendary freestyle wrestler wins seat in Russia’s… |
7 of 60 entries name a figure. Scope: the whole register, The Brief first.
| Figure | Actor | Entry |
|---|---|---|
| A BMW and over 1 million rubles (approx. $15,600) per medallist | Yulia Efimova · Russian state | Olympic medalist Yulia Efimova sells BMW gifted by… |
| Nearly 2 million rubles in bank loans | Mikhail Mamiashvili · Russian Wrestling Federation | Gangster who heads Russian Wrestling Federation… |
| USD 37,500 gold, USD 22,500 silver, USD 15,000 bronze | United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee | Operation Gold: what a United States medal actually… |
| USD 650,000,000 for the 2025–2028 plan | Olympic Solidarity Commission | Olympic Solidarity 2025–2028: where the 650 million… |
| USD 1,000,000 threshold; USD 500,000 for married filing separately | United States Congress | Medal prize money and the million-dollar line in… |
| USD 20,000,000 a year to the Center for SafeSport | United States Congress | What Congress can do to the USOPC since the 2020 Act |
| USD 250,000 for an individual, USD 1,000,000 for a non-individual | United States Congress | The Rodchenkov Act: whom it reaches, and what it… |
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