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Review Article | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2690-8808/143
Department of SporDepartment of Sport Management, Hawassa University SpSc 774: Sport Science and Governance Sisay Menegistu, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of leadership, HU.t Management, Hawassa University SpSc 774: Sport Science and Governance Sisay Menegistu, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of leadership, HU.
*Corresponding Author: Zenikael Getu, Department of Sport Management, Hawassa University SpSc 774: Sports Law and Governance Sisaye Menegistu, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of leadership, HU.
Citation: Zenikael Getu. (2022). Corruption in Olympic Sports: Prevalence Estimations of Match Fixing Among German Squad Athletes. Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Studies, 3(9); DOI: 10.31579/2690-8808/143
Copyright: © 2022 Zenikael Getu, This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received: 09 September 2022 | Accepted: 23 September 2022 | Published: 19 November 2022
Keywords: german squad athletes;olympic sports
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A randomized response technique was used to analyze the Prevalence Estimations of Match Fixing among German Squad Athletes. A total of 425 athletes (79 from German Sports Aid information) participated in the survey. The return rate can, therefore, be estimated at approximately 11.3% of the contracted athletes. The online-based, standardized questionnaire contained additional questions about the socio-demographic data of the athlete’s career as well as direct questions about opinions and attitudes concerning fairness, betting/gambling, and other forms of fraud in games. With all direct questions, care was taken (e.g., by determining the answer categories) to safeguard the respondents’ anonymity.
The finding in this article is presented according to the analytical typologies. The process of obtaining results is clear and appropriate to the approach. The study presented here was primarily conducted to generate an empirical description of the involvement of elite athletes in match-fixing and competition fraud. The results add quantitative empirical evidence to the mostly single-case-based studies (few in number) presented thus far. In terms of the RRT questions, it should be noted that a share of 8.42% of the respondents had been approached over the course of their careers to take part in a distortion of competition. This result confirms the prevalence of approaching athletes for fixing purposes in sports, as suggested in the FIF Pro study, which showed that 11.4% of professional soccer players had been approached to engage in fixing matches (FIF Pro, 2012).
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