History of creation of international authorities solving sports conflicts

Now the role and importance of international arbitration as an institution solving international sports disputes become more and more meaningful due to the number of appeals to the arbitration courts and the International sports arbitration tribunal. Recently sports competitions have become the great source of income. In this regard, it is important to speak about the increasing attention of the world community to legality and legitimacy of all the events involving athletes. Frequent scandalous situations and numerous disputes leave no doubts that in the nearest future the number of appeals to the International sports arbitration tribunal will increase. In this very article the author tried to consider the most significant questions and problems connected with creation of the international sports arbitral authorities.