Summer Sports





Hockey to meet with Rio 2016 to try to resolve venue row

By James Crook

150174241February 15 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) are due to meet with the Rio 2016 Organising Committee next month to discuss issues surrounding the venue for the Olympic Games, which was moved from its originally-planned venues on the Olympic Park to the Deodoro Zone on the outskirts of the city.



Czech tennis star handed six-month doping ban

By James Crook

strycovaFebruary 14 - Czech tennis player Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova has been given a six-month ban after testing positive for the stimulant sibutramine in October last year at the the BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open.








Exclusive: McQuaid warned by WADA President to stay out of cycling inquiry

By Tom Degun in the Sofitel Hotel at London Heathrow

John Fahey 2February 12  - World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President John Fahey claimed his organisation would be happy to conduct an independent inquiry into cycling following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal that has plagued the sport but warned the world governing body must stay out of it and stop dictating terms.