Three days after the Court of Arbitration for Sport banned Alberto Contador for doping, former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has also been banned.

Alberto Contador has to ponder his future as a professional cyclist after a two-year doping ban ruled him out of this year's Tour de France.

Burkina Faso will be playing in the Africa Cup of Nations after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Namibia's appeal against Herve Zengue.

The first African football drama of 2012 will unfold as Namibia continues a battle to get Burkina Faso kicked out of the upcoming Cup of Nations.

Alberto Contador is due to fight against an appeal to impose a doping ban on him which could strip him of his 2010 Tour de France title.

South Africa and the United States are among at least five countries that filed initial paperwork required ahead of any potential 2020 Olympic bids.

Arbitrary decisions by sporting organisations suggest that the country needs a body to streamline governance and fairness across the playing fields.

Football is in danger of losing its prominent position at the Olympics after a ruling allowing clubs to deny them a place at the Games.

Wearing his trademark Cheetah blades, South African double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius won the 100m and 400m races at a Dutch Paralympic meet on Sunday. Pistorius, who hopes to run the 400m at the Beijing Olympics, won with a time of 47,92 at the Dutch Open, a day after coming first in the 200m.

Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, is cautious about the implications of "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius's successful appeal. Speaking at the athletics grand prix in Dakar, in his native Senegal, Diack said that it was important to monitor any changes to Pistorius's prostheses.