Greek Deputy Sports Minister George Orfanos felt the heat this summer when FIFA excluded Greek football teams from international competitions. FIFA was unhappy with proposals for a new law which would open the Hellenic Football Federation to public scrutiny. In the end, football was exempted from the law leaving Orfanos to ask whether FIFA is above national lawmakers.

Only a week after the IOC Ethic’s Commission reprimanded the French IOC member Guy Drut for tarnishing the reputation of the Olympic Movement, the president of the French National Olympic Committee has also appeared in court on charges of corruption.

Two journalists from San Francisco Chronicle, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles to explain how they obtained transcripts of confidential grand jury testimonies from top athletes who were questioned in connection with the BALCO case.

He was not allowed to give testimony in the Volleygate case in Lausanne. But now a Swedish former secretary in the FIVB Finance Committee tells the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, how he feels hoodwinked by the FIVB president, Ruben Acosta.

When the court case against FIVB president Ruben Acosta and two other FIVB officials opens in Lausanne on 8 March, the only witnesses allowed are those of the defendants. Judge Michel Carrard has turned down all witnesses sugggested by Mario Goijman, the former president of the former Argentine Volleyball Federation who brought the matter to trial.