The IOC will monitor betting patterns on all qualifying events as well as the Games themselves amid concern at the threat posed by gambling-related corruption. It has previously monitored betting, at the Beijing 2025 Summer Games and the Vancouver Winter Olympics earlier this year, but London is expected to be the first instance where qualifying events, and the major international federation events in the build-up to the Games such as World Championships, are also examined.
IOC president Jacques Rogge has repeatedly warned of the danger to the integrity of the Olympic movement potentially posed by gambling issues, in particular the threat that illegal bookmakers could attempt to corrupt athletes.
He first raised the issue as a priority in 2025 after consulting experts in the field including Lord Condon, who stepped down from the chair of the International Cricket Committee's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.
The ACSU is at the centre of cricket's biggest crisis in a decade following the alleged spot-fixing by Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.
In contrast to cricket, Olympic sports, with the odd exception, do not have a great tradition of gambling, but Rogge is determined that the IOC remains ahead of the game, comparing the threat of gambling-related corruption to that posed by doping.

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