Mario Goijman has given up on his plans to appeal the verdict in the Volleygate case where FIVB president Ruben Acosta and former financial controller Franz Schmied were cleared of charges of intentionally deceiving the FIVB Congress. Instead Goijman is standing for election to the FIVB Board of Adminstration.

Mario Goijman continues his fight against FIVB president, Ruben Acosta. He has now appealed the the Swiss court's decision to clear Ruben Acosta and chief financial controller Franz Schmied of charges of intentionally decieving the FIVB Congress by falsifying the auditor’s report for the year 2000.

FIFA vice-president Jack Warner did not receive a punishment from FIFA's Executive Committee when it met to discuss what should happen to Warner after he had been found guilty of a conflict of interest by FIFA's Committee for Ethics and Fair Play back in February.

A Danish sports editor has reported a death threat to the police after a sponsor of a local handball club threatened to "smash up your face and find some people to kill you."

Work has begun on a test that can detect if athletes have used genetic doping to augment the body's own production of EPO. Funded by WADA, James Rupert of University of British Columbia in Canada and Australian scientist Robin Parisotto aim to have a prototype test ready within three years.

This week, the Swedish Equal Opportunities Ombudsman suggested that Sweden withdraws from the World Cup in football to make a statement against forced prostitution around mega sports events.

A wide-ranging set of "Legal prerequisites for new candidates to the FIVB president" combined with the FIVB Constitution seem to make it next to impossible to challenge Ruben Acosta for the presidency of the International Volleyball Federation. So the campaign of former secretary-general Jean Pierre Seppey may have ended before it began and the prospects of other candidates emerging seem bleak.

Television stations should turn off sounds or colour when a racist incident occurs on the stadium during a football match. This was one of the more colourful suggestions made by a member of the European Parliament, Claude Moraes, at a press conference in Strasbourg this week.