WADA hints at appeal against Operation Puerto trial
By Emily Goddard
April 30 - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said it is disappointed with a decision made by the judge in Spain's "Operation Puerto" doping trial to destroy all the evidence from the case instead of making it available to other sports bodies and has hinted it is considering an appeal.
April 30 - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said it is disappointed with a decision made by the judge in Spain's "Operation Puerto" doping trial to destroy all the evidence from the case instead of making it available to other sports bodies and has hinted it is considering an appeal.
May 1 - British Olympic superheavyweight gold medallist Audley Harrison has announced his retirement from boxing following his humbling 70-second knock-out defeat to American Deontay Wilder at the weekend.
May 1 - Azerbaijani officials are planning to hold a special invitational athletics meeting as part of the inaugural European Games in Baku in 2015 because the continent's governing body is currently refusing to sign up to the event.
April 30 - Badminton England has received approval from Milton Keynes Council's Development Control Committee to build a controversial new £22 million ($34 million/€26 million) National Badminton Centre on the site of the National Bowl in the Buckinghamshire town.
April 30 - Norwegian Salt Lake City 2002 gold medallist Bent Ramsfjell and Sweden's two-time Olympic champion Cathrine Lindahl are among the world champions, and Olympic and Paralympic medallists to have been named as members of the newly formed World Curling Federation (WCF) Athletes' Commission.
May 1 - Reigning world champions Susan Powell and David Nicholas are among the athletes to have been named on the Australian squad heading to the 2013 International Cycling Union (UCI) Paracycling Road World Championships taking place in the Canadian city of Baie-Comeau later this year.
April 30 - Taylor Lipsett has said that he and his United States ice sledge hockey teammates "don't like the taste of silver" and that their passion for gold at Sochi 2014 has been reignited after the squad fell to Canada in the gold medal game of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Championship last week.
May 1 - British Cycling have announced that the opening round of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Cup for the 2013-2014 season will take place in Manchester this November.
May 1 - Great Britain's London 2012 gold-medal winning team pursuit trio of Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell and Dani King will compete for Team Wiggle Honda at the IG London Nocturne at Smithfield Market in June.
April 14 - Chinese top seeds Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have retained their respective men's and women's titles at the GAC Group 2013 Asia Cup at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong.
April 30 - Former world number one and three-time major winner Vijay Singh has been cleared of doping despite admitting to using deer antler spray, which contains small quantities of an insulin-like growth hormone.
May 1 - A line seems to have been drawn under the row between Tokyo and Istanbul after the Japanese capital's Governor Naoki Inose upset his rivals when he criticised the Turkish city in a newspaper interview.
April 30 - A new Dutch International Olympic Committee (IOC) member to replace Willem-Alexander, who today became the country's first King for more than a century, is set to be elected later this year, it was revealed today.
April 30 - Bob Price has stepped down as President of the International Federation for Sport for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability (Inas).
April 30 - After months of turmoil, involving allegations of sexual and physical abuse and corruption, US Speedskating is getting back on track, according to a United States Olympic Committee (USOC) official.
