The Court of Arbitration for Sport confirms the decision of the GEF Disciplinary Commission
Three years after the reporting form went live, we went back through every case that came through it. Here is what the numbers say — and what they do not.
Between September 2022 and June 2025 the GEF received 312 reports. That is fewer than one a day, which surprises people who expect an ethics body to be buried in complaints. Of those, 208 fell inside our mandate, 71 were passed to a national federation or another body, and 33 could not be taken further because there was nothing in them to act on.
Just over a third of reports came from parents, and a quarter from athletes themselves. Coaches and officials — the group most often assumed to stay quiet — sent in nearly a fifth. Anonymous reports made up 14 per cent, and they were no less useful than signed ones: roughly the same proportion led to a case being opened.
The reports that were hardest to act on were not the vague ones. They were the ones sent years after the fact, where the club had closed, the coach had moved federation, and nobody had kept a record. Time is the constraint we can do least about, and it is usually decided by how the sport treated the person when they first spoke up.
One change has already come out of this. From October the form no longer asks for a category before the description is written. People were picking the wrong one and then writing something that did not match it, which cost the intake team time and cost reporters a follow-up email they should never have needed.
The full breakdown is in the 2025 Annual Report. If you are weighing up whether something is worth reporting, the honest answer after three years of reading these is: send it. We would rather close a case than never see it.