This timeline uses primary sources to trace the allegations and counter-allegations between the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and Mario Goijman, former President of the Argentinean Volleyball Federation.

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The IOC wants to use the Olympic games in Sydney to rehabilitate Olympic doping control. A timely decision and professor John Hoberman argues that the Sydney Games are one of our last opportunities to prevent the further transformation of sport into a high-performance freak show.

The Olympic movement elects a new leader and Rogge must act if the IOC and the Games are again to be seen to have moral value. Among his priorities must be forcing 20 or 30 members to leave.

It is not often that a member of the IOC gets invited to a conference organized by the media, or, if invited, is prepared to accept. So, if I occasionally sound like Daniel in the lion's den, I hope you will forgive me.

Has corruption in the IOC and doping in the Olympics gone too far? Can they be rescued? Or do we walk away and leave them for the gangsters, asks journalist and author Andrew Jennings after investigating the IOC for years.

Society's watchdog - or showbiz pet is the choice faced by sports reporters and any of us who write about the politics and money of national and international sport.