The phrase "a sporting body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an organization or governing body involved in sports, such as a federation or association.
Example: "The new regulations were approved by a sporting body that oversees all competitive events in the region."
Alternatives: "a sports organization" or "a sports governing body".
"That's when I think it goes beyond what you can accept as a sporting body".
"We have an existing sum until March but then nothing to work with from April, which means that as a sporting body, we cannot plan ahead.
The letter was organised by British Cycling, which as well as being a sporting body also campaigns for better everyday bike provision.
Forgive the endless repetition of this fact, but Fifa is not a sporting body so much as a supranational entity, which demonstrates its ability to trump mere nation states and their constitutions every four years.
On the same day as Beale was told that he still had a career with the Wallabies, a sporting body on the other side of the world was taking a less tolerant view of insulting behaviour.
"He said, 'Why can't we say that the Australia Council is a sporting body?' If we pretended that it was there for the promotion of football and cricket, the government would give it even more money".
What seems clear is that an independent drug-testing system is more credible than one conducted by a sports body on its own athletes.
Mauresmo wasn't appointed as part of a drive for more women in tennis coaching, or because a sports body was likely to lose its funding if it failed to promote diversity.
Domestically, the opposition to the Formula One event was not only about an international sporting body providing succour to a repressive regime.
Nigel Short, the British grandmaster who was in the camp that opposed Ilyumzhinov, warned before the vote that "either Fide stays a cowboy organisation mired in sleaze and shunned by corporate sponsors, or it becomes a modern, professional sporting body".
Asked why Fifa – the most prominent sporting body involved in a corruption scandal in recent years – was not attending, the official said: "We have had long discussions with a number of sports bodies; Fifa and Uefa have been involved at times".
