Kingdoms disunited over British Olympic football team A precedent in the long-running dispute over whether hosts Great Britain will field a football team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London could be set at next year’s Paralympic Games in China. New weapon in the fight against blood doping With the test methods that are known today, it is extremely difficult to detect doping with your own blood. But with a new blood doping test developed by Australian and Danish researchers, the era of blood doping might have limited days. FIVB suspends volleyball federation in San Marino The volleyball federation in the tiny state of San Marino has been suspended by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV). The suspension is a reaction to interference from the National Olympic Committee in San Marino, which has dismissed the president and board members elected by the San Marino federation in 2005 and replaced them with others. Tibetans set up national Olympic Committee to go to Beijing Tibetans are increasingly using sports as a means of resisting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. So far it has led to diplomatic headaches in India where authorities have tried to stop sport events for Tibetans, and in Switzerland the president for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) must figure out what to do about a letter from a new National Olympic Committee for Tibet. China not meeting pledge of free media coverage China is yet to live up to its Olympic pledge of free media access. Findings from a survey by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China show that government interference is still commonplace for overseas journalists, while Reporters Without Borders, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists and other rights groups, all highlight the dangerous position of domestic journalists. Argentina bans visiting supporters amid escalating football violence Football is unsafe in the FIFA senior vice-president’s country. Violence seems unstoppable in Argentina’s most popular sport and the latest fight took a victim outside a stadium, when a local supporter killed a visiting fan, smashing a stone into his head. So, the solution for Argentina’s football madness is… get rid of visiting supporters. New policy aims to set up India as a world leader in sport Athletes from India rarely win medals in international competitions but that may soon change. India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has just published a draft for a new national sports policy on its website inviting everybody to contribute their views on a policy that aims to make India one of the world’s leading sporting nations within the next decade. Bonds dividing a nation Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants, recently broke Hank Aarons 33 year old home run record. Rather than uniting the American people in a coast-to-coast celebration of the sport, the new record holder has divided them into two; those who believe he is a clean athlete and those who believe he is not. News in brief for 10 August 2007 New Conference Coordinator employed ; UCI President Pat McQuaid to speak at Play the Game 2007; 13th European Fair Play Congress in Frankfurt. | 
