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A new educational push to protect Brazilian sport from match-fixing quietly launched this week, and the initiative comes directly from the Brazilian Olympic Committee through the Brazilian Olympic Institute (IOB). The program introduces a fresh online course designed to strengthen awareness, promote responsible gaming habits, and give professionals the tools to recognize manipulation risks early.
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The new course, titled Combating Match-Fixing, Together in Defense of Responsible Gaming, focuses on fairness, responsible conduct, and everyday actions that help protect sporting integrity. Lessons walk participants through the dangers linked to manipulation, the wider consequences for competitions, and simple ways to reduce personal exposure to suspicious activity.
Sebastian Pereira, Education and Development Executive Manager at the Brazilian Olympic Committee, said:
“The 2025 Safe Sport Forum is an important milestone to protect the integrity and values of sport against match-fixing. The main strategy to combat this global threat is information and awareness and, in this sense, we are launching the new course to combat match-fixing.
By empowering athletes, coaches, referees and all other sports professionals with knowledge, we transform these professionals into the first line of defense to ensure a fair and inspiring sport for the next generations, in alignment with the Olympic values.”
The course takes roughly one hour to complete and is hosted through the IOB online platform, where participants already access Safe Sport modules. It introduces concepts in short segments, making the information easy to absorb even for busy athletes or staff.
The wider Safe Sport program includes topics such as Preventing and Confronting Harassment and Abuse in Sport, Ethical Conduct in Practice, and Anti-Racist Sport Everyone Wins. Each module supports a broader effort to shape safer, more ethical environments across Brazilian sports.
The educational effort arrives shortly after a national tool for reporting match-fixing formed under the Brazilian Government roughly two months ago. The platform, known as Apita Cidadão (Citizen Whistle), allows anonymous submissions that authorities and police teams can review.
The course is free and open to athletes, coaches, trainers, referees and other professionals connected to sports.
Most participants finish in about one hour through the Brazilian Olympic Institute online platform.
Modules include harassment prevention, ethical conduct, anti-racist training, and now match-fixing awareness.
Apita Cidadão is an anonymous government platform where citizens can report suspected manipulation for police review.
The Brazilian Olympic Committee views awareness as the first protective layer against manipulation and misconduct in sport.