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Chambers hints at court challenge
ATHLETICS: Sprinter Dwain Chambers has said he could launch a high court appeal against his Olympic lifetime ban.
He was speaking after running at a meeting in Greece yesterday.
Chambers, who has served a two-year ban for testing positive for the designer steroid THG in 2003, is banned from competing in the Olympics for Britain.
However, he has not given up hope of running in Beijing in August and says he is ready to challenge the British Olympic Association.
"I have to do this - I can't afford to wait if I want to compete in the Olympics," Chambers told the website Inside the Games. "It is the first step on the legal ladder."
Chambers will run his first 100m race for two years in Kalamata this evening.
Hession opens outdoor season with 100m win
ATHLETICS: Paul Hession got his Olympic outdoor season off to a perfect start at the Malmo Grand Prix meeting in Sweden last night when he won the 100 metres in 10.82 seconds, writes Ian O'Riordan.
It was a rather slow start compared to his 10.18 Irish record of last summer, but the Galwayman found himself running into a strong, gusting wind of 3.7 metres per second, on what was also a cold evening.
Hession came through from the halfway point to win by four-hundredths of a second from Lukas Chyula of Poland, with Charles Allen of Canada third in 10.87.
He will be remaining in northern Europe and will run next in Friday night's Golden League meeting in Oslo, when he will be up against world-class sprinters over his favourite event, the 200 metres.
Bolt may try the sprint double in Beijing
ATHLETICS: 100 metres world record holder Usain Bolt will rely on the advice of his coach before deciding whether to attempt a double at Beijing.
Bolt, who broke fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell's record in New York on Saturday, has said he would definitely run the 200m in Beijing.
He said he would decide after the Jamaican Olympic trials from June 27th to 29th, where he will meet Powell in the 100m.
Tour organisers opt to go with French federation
CYCLING: The Tour de France will run under the jurisdiction of the French federation amid a dispute with the sport's governing body, race organisers ASO have said.
The row between the International Cycling Union (UCI) and big tours organisers such as ASO centres on whether organisers or the UCI have the final say over who rides in their races.
"We have asked the FFC (French Cycling Federation) that the tour is organised under their aegis. The AFLD (French anti-doping agency) will therefore be in charge of the doping tests before and during the race," Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said.
The UCI said in a statement that the ASO decision was "bad" for cycling.
"The Tour de France being held outside the jurisdiction of the UCI, it will benefit neither from the international stewards nor from the intervention of the anti-doping inspectors of the UCI.
"The riders and the teams who participate will face sanctions just because of ASO executives."
IOC to name shortlist of cities in 2016 bid contest
OLYMPIC GAMES: Seven cities bidding for the 2016 Olympics will hear today whether they have made an International Olympic Committee (IOC) shortlist, allowing them to enter a final round of bidding ahead of next year's decision.
The IOC executive board will pick an unspecified number of cities for the shortlist, before candidates submit detailed files and allow IOC evaluators to inspect their bids ahead of the decision in October 2009.
Olympic hopefuls Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Doha look set to make the cut.
Czech capital Prague and Azerbaijan's Baku are seen as the outsiders in the race.
Chicago is banking on a solid and well-backed bid and the fact that by 2016 it will have been 20 years since a US city hosted the Games. Atlanta staged them in 1996.
Tokyo, which hosted the Games in 1964, is eager to present its revamped image and says its bid will not be hampered by another Asian capital staging this year's Games.
Madrid bid for the 2012 Games, losing out to Paris and eventual winners London, and the Spaniards want to capitalise on their momentum and what was seen in 2005 as a very good but unlucky proposal.
