Football
The fate of the 2012 Brownlow Medal will be decided by the AFL Commission today, with AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick to deliver the verdict at a late-afternoon media conference.
Sport
Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome says questions remain over Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins seeking permission to use triamcinolone – and Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has joined calls for an explanation.
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An Olympic blowtorch has been put to the world’s anti-doping agency, with widespread calls for it to be revamped in the wake of the Russian doping scandal.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has defended the publication date of a damning report on doping in Russia, a day after the International Olympic Committee blamed it for the uncertainty surrounding Russian athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Athletes who tested positive for meldonium before March 1 – including fallen tennis star Maria Sharapova – could have bans overturned less than four months before the Rio Olympics after WADA said it was unable to establish how quickly the drug, outlawed since January 1, cleared the human body.
Russia’s athletics chief has confirmed four track-and-field athletes have tested positive for the banned drug meldonium, a disclosure which could further damage Moscow’s efforts to overturn a doping ban in time for the Rio Olympics.
