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I’ve had my phone and emails hacked by Russia and been threatened by the Kremlin. I’ve been told that a Bahraini Sheikh wanted me dead. I’ve exposed dopers and liars and corrupt FIFA executives.
This work has taken me from the UK and the US to India, South Korea, Liechtenstein and Iceland. To multiple Olympics, and to the end of my tether. But the result has been stories like these:
My first piece for the Mail on Sunday, in November 2010, said a tiny Gulf state – Qatar – with no football culture, was about to win the right to stage the 2022 World Cup
I revealed there was a state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, seven months before that plot corrupted Sochi 2014
I interviewed Ben Johnson in 2013 about his “journey into hell.”
I reported on a a match-fixing organisation within English football
Why hasn’t any of the money from the sale of Chelsea reached Ukraine yet?
What’s it really like behind the scenes at a Premier League football club – Brighton – in 2023-24?
What about Mo Farah and illegal drugs? Or UK Sport using Olympic athletes as drug guinea pigs at London 2012?
I believe in evidence-based journalism. It’s the right of any reader to say, ‘Prove it.'
Let’s do it together.
Nick Harris
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