The event, which took place in Lausanne, and was co-organised with the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) and the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), was staged in line with the aim of IOC President Thomas Bach's Olympic Agenda 2020 to protect clean athletes.

The workshop addressed the use of investigatory procedures and the education of the International Federation (IF) stakeholders about the risk of competition manipulation, with Interpol, which strengthened its partnership with the IOC through an official Memorandum of Understanding earlier this year, explaining the process of a criminal investigation and how it differs from a sports disciplinary one.

"Today's workshop, with the testimony provided by Interpol and the Tennis Integrity Unit, showed the complexity of the problem that sport is facing," ASOIF President Francesco Ricci Bitti said.

"The IOC, as the umbrella organisation for sport, has taken the lead to address this problem and we thank them for their dedication."

The IOC also used the workshop to present its Integrity Betting Intelligence System (IBIS) to the attending IFs.

The Badminton World Federation signed up to the International Olympic Committee's Integrity Betting Intelligence System earlier this month ©Getty Images


IBIS has been designed to become "the primary source of betting information" for the Olympic Movement in the fight against manipulation and corruption linked to sports betting and 17 IFs have already signed up to use it.

All seven Winter Olympic IFs signed up ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, where IBIS was operational for the first time, and the IOC expects to have all 28 Summer Olympic IFs on board by Rio 2016.

The only exception is football as FIFA will continue to use its own monitoring system, but it has already signed an agreement with the IOC committing to a mutual exchange of information.

"The high participation of IFs in today's workshop and the great interest they have shown in joining IBIS is very encouraging," Christophe De Kepper, the IOC's director general, said.

"Clearly, the IFs have a major role to play when it comes to protecting their sports from competition manipulation, and today was another occasion for the IOC to give them the tools to do so.

"The IOC runs and finances IBIS which remains operational between editions of the Olympic Games.

"It is only logical for the IFs to take advantage of this opportunity and use IBIS at their major international events and other multisport events."

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