Prevention of competition manipulation
Competition manipulation or match-fixing is an intentional arrangement, act or omission aimed at an improper alteration of the result or the course of a sport competition in order to remove all or part of the unpredictable nature of it. Manipulating a competition kills sport and can destroy careers. For more information click here.
Integrity Education
FIBA, in collaboration with the IOC, hosted a series of mandatory webinars on the topic of integrity for all 3x3 teams qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games in order to raise awareness about the rights and obligations of players and staff towards betting and match-fixing. FIBA has also collaborated with Athlete 365, the IOC’s official community for elite Athletes and Olympians which provides support through relevant advice, tools and services, to produce an educational video on betting.
Jordan Spencer: How betting almost ended my basketball career (link)
https://olympics.com/athlete365/integrity/how-betting-almost-ended-my-basketball-career/
The following initiatives are part of FIBA's integrity program:
SWISH
A Sport Integrity and Policies program for National Federations, SWISH is part of the TIME-OUT 2.0 program.
SWISH is a purposely designed program aimed to educate and mentor selected participants in management and administration in the area of integrity and sport policies with the objective of successfully understanding FIBA's regulations as well as the importance of being compliant with integrity policies or regulations.
Through a series of presentations by experts from the field of sport policy across a wide range of sporting organizations, workshops and discussions on various rules and regulations, the aim of the program is to ensure that all participants and their federations have clarity and understanding of the FIBA regulations as well as other key sport policies.
The main objective of the SWISH program is to share useful and tailor-made knowledge that will help representatives in their role within their National Federations.
Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
FIBA recently implemented a network of integrity specialists within the basketball community.
FIBA’s National member Federations members shall to appoint a Single Point of Contact (SPOC). The aim of this project is to have a SPOC person responsible for integrity in each National Federation who will have direct contact with FIBA. They arewill be responsible, among other things, for implementing FIBA's Code of Ethics and Integrity at a national level, ensuring an appropriate integrity-related education within the country and the creation, maintenance, or management of the national reporting platform.
FIBA will meet with all allocated SPOC persons once a year in order to exchange best practices, answer questions, ensure a great network.
Report a breach of integrity
Standard or anonymous reports can be made here via a confidential platform. The reporting process to FIBA is done through the platforms of the International Olympic Committee and WADA. By selecting an option of breach either as Anti-Doping Violation, Competition Manipulation, Integrity Non-Compliance (other than Competition Manipulation) or Harassment/ Abuse the website user will be directed to an integrity and compliance hotline or to the WADA Speak Up platform. FIBA will be directly informed of any report submitted through this platform.