This decision represents a fundamental departure from the principles of Olympism. By welcoming Russia back into the Olympic fold despite its history of state-sponsored doping and its ongoing war against Ukraine, the IOC has chosen to rewrite, to lower, its own standards for stakeholder accountability.

There are several immediate measures the IOC could adopt to provide meaningful financial support to athletes without creating a traditional employer-employee relationship.

Global Athlete Position Paper: Advancing the Olympic Movement Through Collective Bargaining

As we close 2025, our FairSport and Global Athlete team want to extend our gratitude to all of the athletes, advocates and allies who have driven our athletes’ first movement forward.

Our FairSport and Global Athlete team thank you for your continued partnership and support. FairSport’s ‘athletes first’ approach is focused on improving the anti-doping landscape, and our continued commitment and funding of Global Athlete encourages athletes to control their destiny.

Global Athlete’s statement scrutinizing the International Olympic Committee’s failures ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

On behalf of our small, dedicated team at FairSport and Global Athlete, we thank you for your continued partnership and support. Through an athletes' first approach, FairSport is committed to the anti-doping movement and to funding Global Athlete to promote fair, safe, and ethical, sport.

Recently, a cross-section of Canadian sports people gathered for the Canadian Safe Sport Think Tank hosted by Global Athlete and Gymnasts for Change Canada to collectively address the country’s sporting crisis. Olympic and National Team athletes, advocates, survivors, sports administrators, coaches, and scholars engaged in a comprehensive examination of the Canadian sport system and collaborated to identify a pathway for its recovery and reconstruction.

With less than a week before the start of the Asian Games in China, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has publicly threatened athletes with the removal of accreditation should they decide to exercise their fundamental right to freedom of expression.