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.

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.

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 Conference Coordinator employed; UCI President Pat McQuaid to speak at Play the Game 2007; 13th European Fair Play Congress in Frankfurt.

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.

Year in, year out, governments at all levels and corporate bodies spend billions of naira on Sports Development. But there is little, or nothing to show for their huge investment. Olukayode Thomas reports that, unless President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua declares a state of emergency in sports, Nigeria, a country teeming with talented athletes in all areas of sports, will continue to play second fiddle to other nations at global championships.

Back in the 1980s, after years of dealing with the problems of hooliganism, the majority of the UK’s top flight soccer venues had high fences installed and took on other security measures to contain fans in the event of fights breaking out. However, on April 15 1989, Liverpool had been due to play Nottingham Forest in the semi-final of the FA Cup at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough Stadium but that match was never to go ahead, as English football faced one of its darkest days: with the measures having been implemented to eradicate hooliganism having been the main contributor to the deaths of 96 football fans and injuries to a further 766.

When in 2005 the draft of a European Constitution failed, sport was left without any article of its own and, thus, without a legal framework on the EU level. That is why the European Commission started a process to implement legal regulation of sports nevertheless.