The crises that have rocked world sport in 2015 are helping to speed the spread of better financial practice among leading International Federations

The crises that have rocked world sport in 2015 are helping to speed the spread of better financial practice among leading International Federations

"Good governance and autonomy are strongly linked; they are two sides of the same coin.” This maxim, taken from the background document to the Olympic Agenda 2020 proposals approved almost exactly a year ago by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Monaco, encapsulates why 2015 has been such a disastrous year for advocates of maximum autonomy for sports organisations.