Matt Lawton is the Chief Sports Correspondent at The Times. He covers a wide range of sports, including football, athletics, and cycling, with a keen focus on uncovering stories related to doping and corruption within competitive sports. His work has been featured in prominent publications such as Sports Illustrated and The Times, and he has received multiple accolades, including being named sports journalist of the year twice.
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Matt Lawton's coverage primarily focuses on sports with a particular emphasis on legal and regulatory aspects, event coverage, and breaking news. He often covers topics related to Olympics, athletics, football, sports business, and sports investigations.
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By: Matt Lawton
Imane Khelif, one of the boxers at the centre of the Olympic gender row in Paris this year, is taking legal action in response to the latest reports in France claiming the gold-medal winner in the women's welterweight division has male XY chromosomes, the International Olympic Committee has said.
Proposed changes to rules made in aftermath of Manchester City’s legal challenge on associated party transactions will be decided on at emergency meeting
By: Matt Lawton, Martyn Ziegler
All teams in the top flight stand to benefit if the Premier League’s proposed changes to the rules on Associated Party Transactions (APTs), as seen by The Times, are adopted in a vote on November 22
By: Matt Lawton
Aleksander Ceferin and other officials flew between German cities and to Ljubljana during the tournament despite climate change initiative
Briton is one of seven candidates for most powerful position in sport and has firm line on issues including anti-doping, Russian participation and transgender athletes
By: Matt Lawton
Champions have written to the other 19 top-flight clubs, claiming the league is rushing through amendments to Associated Party Transaction rules
Departing interim manager will prepare a detailed handover document for Thomas Tuchel while insisting that he would be ready to give the full-time job a crack himself if asked
Midlands club call for vote on Associated Party Transactions to be postponed but league set to go ahead with it at Friday’s shareholders’ meeting
Alajuelense say they should be part of 32-team tournament — and get a share of £500million prize fund — as two Mexican clubs are under same ownership
Thomas Malins was lead coach of elite development programme at Stevenage FC for 15 months before club became aware of cases involving boys aged 13 and 15 in Norway
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