Sport is not just about performance and results. It is based on essential values:
fairness, respect and ensuring that everyone can develop in a safe environment. Protecting these principles is a shared responsibility of the entire sporting community.
This is what integrity in sport is all about: protecting athletes and those around them, preventing unacceptable behaviour and violence, combating doping and competition manipulation, and ensuring that sport remains clean, fair and safe for everyone.
On 1 April 2026, the Agence Luxembourgeoise Antidopage (ALAD) became the Agence Luxembourgeoise pour l’Intégrité dans le Sport (ALIS), marking an important new chapter for integrity in Luxembourg sport.
This transformation builds on ALAD’s longstanding commitment to clean sport, while expanding the agency’s missions to include safeguarding and the fight against competition manipulation. As Director Loïc Hoscheit explained when announcing the transition, this is far more than a change of name. This development reflects a broader vision of integrity in sport and a desire to address the challenges facing the sporting community today and in the future.
To support this expanded mission, ALIS has grown alongside its responsibilities. What was once a team of three has grown into a team of nine employees, and will continue to strengthen in the years to come.
When people hear the word integrity, they often think of rules, procedures and regulations.
While these are important, integrity is ultimately about people.
It is about helping athletes make informed decisions. It is about protecting competitions from external influences. It is about ensuring that everyone involved in sport feels safe, respected and supported.
At the heart of its mission, ALIS pursues a simple objective: to contribute to ensuring that sport remains clean, fair and safe for everyone.
To protect you, your sport and your communities.
Education: Empowering everyone to take action
Every athlete, coach, official, volunteer, parent or member of support personnel will face decisions throughout their sporting journey.
Some may seem simple. Others can have significant consequences.
Can I take this medication?
Am I allowed to bet on this competition?
What should I do if I witness inappropriate behaviour?
Where can I find support?
Education helps provide the answers.
It is also the pillar that connects all of ALIS’s other missions. Whether it relates to anti-doping, safeguarding or competition manipulation, education is often the best way to prevent problems before they arise.
Through workshops, awareness campaigns, presentations and educational resources, ALIS helps members of the sporting community better understand their rights, their responsibilities and the challenges they may encounter along the way.
For Massimo Cristallo, Head of Education, the objective goes far beyond simply explaining the rules.
" Building a genuine culture of integrity in sport takes time and requires the commitment of the entire sporting community. Our role is to support athletes in understanding the rules, but also to provide organisations with the tools, expertise and support they need to integrate integrity into their day-to-day operations.
We encourage every federation, club and sports organisation to integrate integrity education as part of their annual programme and make it a regular part of the journey for athletes, coaches, officials and volunteers. Several federations are already leading the way. Our ambition is clear: to work together so that integrity education gradually becomes the norm in Luxembourg sport, rather than the exception.”
Anti-Doping: Protecting Clean Athletes
Anti-doping remains one of ALIS’s key missions.
As a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code, ALIS continues to implement testing programmes, support athletes in understanding anti-doping rules, and provide education initiatives in accordance with international standards.
But modern anti-doping is about more than testing alone.
Athletes regularly have questions regarding medications, supplements, Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) and their anti-doping obligations. With the growing professionalisation of sport, it is not always easy to navigate these requirements.
ALIS works closely with athletes, federations, the Ministry of Sport, COSL, INAPS and LIHPS, to ensure that Luxembourg’s sporting community is well informed and supported.
For Guillaume Zekri, Head of Anti-Doping, the focus is always on protecting those who choose to compete fairly.
"Clean sport is about protecting athletes who choose to compete fairly. Our role is not only to enforce the rules but also to provide guidance and support so that athletes can focus on performing at their best."
By combining prevention, education and testing, ALIS helps ensure that sporting success is built on talent, dedication and hard work.
Safeguarding: Creating Safe Sporting Environments
For many people, sport is about much more than performance. It is where friendships are built, confidence grows and important life lessons are learned.
Everyone involved in sport deserves an environment where they feel safe, respected and valued. This is the purpose of safeguarding.
One of ALIS’s new missions, safeguarding aims to protect the positive values of sport. Through challenge, competition, teamwork and the pleasure of participating, sport helps people develop resilience, confidence and life skills. Safeguarding helps ensure these benefits are never undermined by abuse, violence, harassment or other forms of harm.
ALIS works alongside federations, clubs and sports organisations to strengthen safeguarding through common policies, education and practical guidance. The aim is not to add additional constraints, but to help organisations create safer and more inclusive sporting environments, where problems can be identified and addressed before they escalate.
For Lauren Crisp, Head of Safeguarding, sustainable progress requires a collective commitment:
" Everyone has the right to take part in sport in a safe and respectful environment, where they can grow, challenge themselves, learn and build their confidence. Violence, abuse and any other form of harmful behaviour have no place in sport, but unfortunately continue to affect too many participants. Safeguarding is a collective responsibility that requires the commitment of the entire sporting community. By exchanging ideas, sharing our experiences and working together, we can better protect participants and preserve the values that make sport a positive force in everyone’s life.”
Through education, collaboration and support, ALIS contributes to developing a culture of respect, inclusion and well-being throughout Luxembourg sport.
Competition Manipulation: Protecting what makes sport special
Imagine watching a competition where the outcome has already been decided.
A large part of what makes sport exciting would immediately disappear.
One of sport’s greatest qualities is its unpredictability. No matter how experienced an athlete may be or how strong a team appears on paper, nothing is ever guaranteed.
Competition manipulation threatens exactly that.
Many people assume that this issue only affects major sporting nations or professional leagues.
ALIS does not share that view.
Twenty years ago, a local sporting competition in Luxembourg simply remained local. Today, competitions can appear on betting platforms around the world with just a few clicks, often without athletes even realising that bets are being placed on their performances.
As Loïc Hoscheit has pointed out, there is no reason to believe that Luxembourg is immune.
Competition manipulation can take different forms: influencing results or deliberately affecting specific moments within a competition in order to obtain a financial gain. This issue goes beyond sport and can be linked to organised crime, money laundering and international networks.
That is why ALIS works to raise awareness among athletes and sports organisations, encourage reporting and contribute to international efforts to protect the fairness of competitions.
Loïc Hoscheit emphasises what is truly at stake.
"Sport is built on uncertainty and fair competition. When those principles are compromised, everyone loses: athletes, clubs, supporters and the sporting community as a whole. Protecting the integrity of competitions means protecting what makes sport special."
By helping people recognise risks and understand their responsibilities, ALIS aims to protect one of sport’s most valuable qualities: the belief that every competition is decided fairly.
See Something? Say Something.
Protecting sport also means speaking up when a situation seems inappropriate.
Whether it involves doping, competition manipulation, safeguarding concerns or other threats to integrity, ALIS provides a secure and confidential reporting platform for athletes, coaches, officials and the public.
By reporting concerns, everyone can play a role in protecting the values that make sport fair, safe and positive.
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ALIS – For a clean, fair and safe sport built on integrity and respect.
