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About Bagman
Bagman is a catalog of corruption in the bodies that run sport — vote-buying for host rights, kickbacks on TV and marketing deals, and bribes to steer sanctioning — where prosecutors, the IOC, FIFA Ethics, or an international federation imposed a verdict on the record. Each case is traced from the scheme to the indictment, the ban, or the conviction.
What you'll find here
- The cheat, the sport, the year, and what it cost — stated up front, never buried
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- How the edge was bought, how it was caught, and the verdict a federation, board, or court delivered
- Transferable lessons, and real references from sanctions, court records, and named journalism
Bagman is part of The Fix — a reference network on cheating in sport: the doping, the thrown matches, the in-game trickery, and the boardroom bribery, each traced from the cheat to the verdict on the record.