Abstract
The first documented case of corruption in international sport is attributed to the athlete Eupolos of Thessalia (Maennig, 2005). There are also records of corruption of ‘sports management’ and administration in the ancient Olympics (Decker, 1995). Then, as now, however, there is no ‘specific class’ of people (Dittenhofer, 1995) that commits acts of fraud and corruption. As we have already illustrated, fraud and corruption is committed by athletes, sports administrators, professional coaches and managers working in or as individuals for sporting bodies; some of the examples in this book examine fraud and corruption in specific sports in more depth, but for now our attention is on why people involved in the world of sport commit acts of fraud and corruption.
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