Athletics: Linford Christie is to have his positive doping case considered by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) arbitration panel from July 6th-9th.
Former Olympic 100 metres champion Christie (39) tested positive for excessive levels of the anabolic steroid nandrolone last year.
Although Christie has effectively retired, he is suspended from competition pending the hearing and faces a two-year ban if the panel decides against him.
Two other Britons, European 200 metres champion Doug Walker and 400 metres hurdler Gary Cadogan, will have their positive tests for nandrolone considered at the same time at the IAAF's headquarters in Monaco.
The case of Cuban world high jump record holder Javier Sotomayor, who tested positive for cocaine at the Pan American Games last year, will go to arbitration in April.
Soccer: The Stasi, former East Germany's secret police, deployed about 50 agents to spy on a former Dynamo Berlin star, Lutz Eigendorf, after he emigrated to the West in 1979.
The claim is made by ARD television, who are to screen a programme on the Stasi and how they hounded dissidents on whom they kept thick dossiers.
Eigendorf died in a car accident in 1983 in suspicious circumstances four years after using a friendly match in the West against Kaiserslautern to cross the Iron Curtain.
Kaiserslautern promptly signed him up to the fury of Stasi boss and Dynamo president Erich Mielke, who allegedly ordered the player be `eliminated.'
According to Stasi documents an unnamed individual was hired to provoke a road accident by ramming Eigendorf's car. However, alcohol was given as the official cause of death with a level of 2.2 grams of alcohol in his blood sample.
Doctors say that would imply the player had drunk 4.3 litres of beer. Witness accounts say Eigendorf drank four or five beers on the night in question.
Drugs in sport: Claims that Olympic competitors were using a new undetectable drug have been dismissed as Internet hype.
Allegations surfaced on Sunday that up to 80 per cent of Australia's Olympic athletes were using hard-to-detect or undetectable drugs.
Nine Network television claimed that Olympic competitors were snapping up insulin growth factor, or IGF-1. The synthetic hormone is undistinguishable from that produced naturally by the body.
Vicki Kapernick from ASDA - the chief drug testing authority for the Sydney Olympics - said IGF-1 stimulated protein synthesis leading to an increase in muscle bulk. But she said a 7 mg vial, worth up to $1,000, would have to be taken daily for the drug to have an effect.
And the main global manufacturer of the drug, GroPep, said they only produce a gram, or less than a fifth of a teaspoon, of IGF-1 a year, and export 90 per cent of total production.
