OLYMPICS: Greek sports authorities have postponed by two weeks the judgment on the country's top two sprinters for missing doping tests, including one on the eve of last year's Athens Olympics.
Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, facing career-ending bans for allegedly avoiding drugs tests three times in two months, were expected to learn their fate by the end of February but late evidence from them has pushed the date back.
Kenteris (31), who won the men's 200 metres title at the 2000 Sydney Games and Thanou (30), who won the women's 100 metres silver medal at Sydney, face a maximum two-year ban if found guilty.
ATHLETICS: Twice world half-marathon silver medallist Susan Chepkemei has been banned by Athletics Kenya from all national and international competitions for the rest of the year.
Chepkemei (29), failed to beat last Wednesday's deadline to report to Kenya's national cross country training camp in Embu, 250 km north east of capital Nairobi, and was dropped from the team for the World Cross Country Championships in France on March 19th-20th.
Three-time worldshort course champion Edith Masai will face similar sanctions unless she proves over the next seven days that she is suffering an ankle injury.
GOLF: Max Faulkner, winner of the 1951 British Open, has died aged 88. Faulkner beat Argentina's Antonio Cerda by two shots at Royal Portrush to clinch the only British Open played in Northern Ireland.
Born in England, Faulkner was a member of the Britain team which beat the United States in the 1957 Ryder Cup at Lindrick, Sheffield.
TENNIS: The Dubai Open has become the first tennis tournament outside of the Australian and US Opens to offer equal prize-money to both sexes. The total pot for women has been raised from $585,000 to match the $1 million paid last week in the men's event.
SAILING: The Irish Sailing Association have confirmed Cormac Bradley as their next chief executive. Bradley, who takes up the appointment in April, will replace Paddy Boyd, who resigned before Christmas.
