Nothing is sacred.

[DungBeetle]

I'm going to phone the police next time some mug I've backed gets broken from 40 love up and demand they get the helicopter over to the match and get the skullduggery stopped mid match

[doubleup]

Gambling is regulated in most of Europe.  It would be straightforward for instance for the UKGC to prohibit its licencees from taking bets on greek football or any other area where corruption occurs.  Unfortunately that will never happen because gambling regulators are just there to ensure that the government gets a tax cut and some cronies get a cozy sinecure.

[horseplayer]

agreeing with arb on this one (gulp)

Information is reported regularly to authorities in most sports. The few quite recent cases in racing included.

Usually the sports governing body cant/wont or do not want to act.

[Weetabix]

The BHA number would have a constant engaged tone if all dodgy dealings in racing were reported.

[AndrewT]

We know that the UCI knew about and helped cover up the doping in cycling. The athletics report last week said that there was no way the top people at the IAAF didn't know what was going on with doping there.

The WPBSA is fine with John Higgins still playing snooker, and the only reason that Stephen Lee got his huge ban was because he was stupid enough to fix a match just a week after the CPS decided not to prosecute him for another match-fixing allegation.

Obv FIFA spends so much time lining their own pockets through bent activities that they just don't have the time to investigate any other dodginess in football.

The ATP/WTA clearly aren't the only sporting organisations that are happy to sweep things under the carpet.

Not just sport either - the political establishment has spent years covering up the paedo scandal because it's not in their interest for that to get investigated properly.

Power corrupts.

[arbboy]

Last year Fed and DJork amongst others came out and said prize money for the lower players needed to be increased in grand slams and this happened.  This looked like a very selfless act by them but if you think about it more deeply and see the proper bigger picture it is selfishly in their interests for this to happen.  They earn way more money every year off the court than on it (probably 10 fold for Fed).  If spreading the prize money a little more evenly helps to reduce the bent games in the sport that they clearly know goes on then the sponsors are more likely to not leave the sport because there is less chance of a scandal hitting them.  

All the money filters up to the top of the game and they are the big fish so the cynic in me sees this as a way of trying to gain a bit of PR whilst really trying to protect the revenue their own brands can generate in the long term.

[arbboy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35356550

Interesting article on the issue.

[AndrewT]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/27/buzzfeed-bbc-tennis-match-fixing-allegations

How much money can you really bet on a match in a Challenger tournament?