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FIFA and WADA come to terms over anti-doping whereabouts rules. In a working meeting at FIFA headquarters on Monday between the Chairman of the FIFA Medical Committee Dr Michel D'Hooghe, FIFA Chief...[more]

China is stepping up the battle to rid national football of its bad reputation. According to Reuters, China midfielder Cui Peng has received "a record fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an...[more]

Comment: Derek McGovern, betting expert at The Mirror, asks the provoking question: "How much would it cost to bribe an anti-corruption panel?" The background is that British Sports...[more]

Austria hit by doping scandal: Stefan Matschiner, former manager of banned cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was arrested Monday night, writes Austrain Times. Matschiner is the third person to be arrested...[more]

Dwain Chambers recently published a book about his experiences with doping causing controversy.  In an interview with Times Online, Ed  Moses defended Chambers: “The authorities were...[more]

A new £140 million scheme designed to offer free swimming to 20 million people in England as part of the legacy of London hosting the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics officially begins today, announces...[more]

A group of Belgian athletes is challenging the rule requiring athletes to notify drug testers of their whereabouts, contending it violates privacy. The case could undermine the work of the World...[more]

Would-be entrants to Formula One are being helped by the recession, according to the head of a new US team, writes Sportbusiness.com. SOURCE: Sportbusiness.com[more]

Security at mega event in danger: According to Sports City, a leaked report by Canada's intelligence service (CSIC), the Vancouver 2010 Games in under threats of espionage. Foreign spies may try...[more]

A resolution to end a revenue-sharing contract between the US Olympic Committee and the IOC is being considered by IOC president Jacques Rogge. SOURCE: Sportbusiness.com[more]

Former national football coach Pippo Psaila says the cases of corruption that have just surfaced are just "the tip of the iceberg" but he is upbeat about the upheaval adding that, in the...[more]

Bone tests on teenage Chinese athletes have shown that thousands had faked their age, often in order to keep competing in junior events. A study in the southern province of Guangdong found one in...[more]

World swimming governing body Fina has moved to limit the impact of the controversial hi-tech swimsuits. Last year saw an astonishing 108 world records broken, 79 of them by swimmers wearing one...[more]

Professional sportsmen may have to register every bet they make under new plans to root out corrupt gambling. According to telegraph.co.uk the governing bodies of football, cricket, horse racing and...[more]

Sport in times of crisis: Grassroots sport suffer under the credit crunch, reports EurActiv in an interview with IOC president Jacques Rogge. Problems for grassroots sports include falling government...[more]