Togolese sports journalist Agboklou Komi Prosper was on tuesday savagely beaten by football player Salifou Moustapha in an unprovoked attack outside Lome’s main football stadium as the team arrived for a training session.

John Coates, President of the Australian Olympic Committee, has been elected as President at the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

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Over a good many years I have consistently argued that if we wish to understand patterns of drug use in sport then we need to examine the central role of sports physicians in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

There has hardly been a major drugs scandal in which sports physicians have not been central actors. If we wish to understand patterns of drug use in sport then we need to examine the central role of sports physicians in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The recent FIFA scandal comes at a bad time for Switzerland, which have been trying to move away from its image as a safe port for tax cheats.

The Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) won a 2010 Common Ground Award for its innovative community and peace building programmes with youth in the Mathare slums, with young refugees in the Kakuma Camp in northwest Kenya, with demobilized child soldiers in Rumbek in southern Sudan and with youth in other poor urban and rural communities in East Africa and Botswana.

Canadian reporter and author Laura Robinson was awarded the Debwewin Citation for journalism excellence recognising her work on covering First Nations people and their access to high-level sport.

Read the first chapter of Steve Menary's new book examing the history of British Olympic football through historical facts and interviews with former players about the Great Britain football team that won two Olympic gold medals and is set to play at the London 2012 Olympics for the first time in more than forty years.