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League Notes: King Not Asked To Contribute To British Cycling Review

Peter King, the author of the "controversial internal review" in '12 which British Cycling was this week accused of "covering up," has expressed "disappointment" that he was not asked to contribute to the current independent review. King said that former British Cycling President Brian Cookson, the current president of the Int'l Cycling Union (UCI), was "similarly ignored" by the review panel despite both men being "happy to contribute." King's revelations "raise further questions" about a report which has become "bogged down in legal wrangling" (London TELEGRAPH, 2/22).

Australian Football League player agent Craig Kelly has "taken a swipe at the growing trend among AFL clubs to push for reduced payout terms for sacked senior coaches." Kelly, who is negotiating a new two-year deal for premiership coach Chris Scott at Geelong, said that he would "continue to reject the move towards three-to-six-month payouts for coaches." Although the Cats board has endorsed Scott's contract extension, Geelong wants its senior coach to "fall in line with other contracted senior staff with six-month payout clauses." Kelly is understood to have rejected the new terms discussed by Geelong for Scott (THE AGE, 2/23).

The Rugby Football League "signed up to a fraud detection system to ensure the sport is free from breaches of its gambling laws." The RFL signed a two-year deal with Sportradar Integrity Services to "monitor global betting patterns in rugby league." Under the agreement, Sportradar's fraud detection system will monitor more than 200 matches per season (PA, 2/23).

The RFL fined Hull KR and Salford Red Devils after "crowd trouble at Craven Park in last season's Million Pound Game in October." Hull KR accepted a £25,000 ($31,400) fine, of which £20,000 ($25,100) will be suspended, for "breaching three operational rules." The Red Devils were fined £10,000 ($12,500) for two breaches, with £7,500 ($9,400) suspended, but a £3,000 ($3,800) fine has been "added from a previous suspended breach after crowd problems in a match at Huddersfield" (BBC, 2/23)

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