IOC restores corrupt South Korean Park Yong-sung in IOC with no clear reason.

The troubled Cape Town preparations for the 2010 football World Cup face further problems as an environmental group opposes the construction of a stadium in Cape Town and threatens the city with legal action.

Now you can do your own analysis of the world’s most comprehensive data so far on the international sports press. On a new theme page, we publish the full data sheet and bring brand new analysis of the International Sport Press Survey 2005 that included 10,000 articles from the sports pages in 37 newspapers in 10 countries.

The first International Seminar on Sport in Post-Disaster Intervention is to be held in Berlin, Germany from the 4th to the 9th November 2007, organised by International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE/CIEPSS).

A new book highlights the symbiosis of cycling and doping and the seriousness of the connection.

Each month brings fresh examples of how organisers of sport events try to limit media coverage. But is it sound business or a breach of freedom of the press when the Australian Football League refuses accreditation to overseas news agencies and the International Rugby Board restricts the use of photos from the Rugby Union World Cup? In the end, the question may be superseded by what sponsors think.

Bob Munro meets new threats from self-proclaimed KFF chairman, while Kenyan football is heading for a split.

A vice president of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) insists that it is necessary to carry out an audit of the entire administration of the LFA to determine what has happened to annual FIFA grants of 250,000 US dollars. Adolph Lawrence believes that much of the money has never reached the intended recipients.