Semenya is confident she can make the switch after clocking a personal best of 23.49 in 200m to move closer to the 22.80 time needed to qualify for Tokyo. Semenya says she has a long history in the 200m and had it not been for a lack of coaching in South Africa's rural Limpopo province, she might have made a career out of the distance.
Manchester United are fifth in the Premier League standings with 58 points, one behind Leicester City, who occupy the final Champions League spot with four games to play.
The federation's troubles have piled up in recent months, with some of its officials and senior coaches having found themselves embroiled in doping scandals.
Alberto Contador's Tour de France dreams were shattered on Monday when the Spaniard was stripped of one of his three titles and banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for failing a dope test during the 2010 race.
Spain's Alberto Contador has been given a two-year ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for failing a dope test during the 2010 Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Monday.
The International Tennis Federation reacted with dismay after German Rainer Schuettler was told he could compete in the Beijing Olympics following a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing.
Alberto Contador is free to compete again after Spain's cycling federation (RFEC) lifted his one-year doping ban on Tuesday but the Tour de France champion still faces the threat of possible appeals by two global bodies.
Russia's former World No 1 Maria Sharapova said she could not wait to return to tennis in April after her drugs ban was reduced to 15 months on Tuesday.
Guardiola also took aim at Spanish league president Javier Tebas, a long standing critic of City, who had questioned whether CAS was the right court for deciding such matters.
Maria Sharapova has offered her congratulations to pregnant rival Serena Williams.
Mohamed Bin Hammam has failed in his bid to be reinstated as head of Asian soccer by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Monday.
The athletes were unable to enter Australia due to government restrictions on foreign nationals travelling from China.
Championship leader Rossi wants a penalty, imposed on him after he allegedly kicked Honda's reigning champion Marc Marquez off his bike in Malaysia last Sunday, to be at least suspended so he can race on equal terms.
Financially-troubled Real Mallorca have threatened to sue soccer's European governing body UEFA for damages over their exclusion from this season's Europa League competition.
'Even though the hormonal drugs made me feel constantly sick, the IAAF now wants to enforce even stricter thresholds with unknown health consequences. I will not allow the IAAF to use me and my body again'
Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin has lost his appeal against the stripping of his Olympic silver medal for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday.
'Athletes are always entitled to freedom of speech and when we detect that something is wrong and there's cheating, then why shouldn't we have a voice?'
Frozen balls containing team names have been used to rig European soccer's club competition draws although the ruse was never used at FIFA, the former chief of the game's world governing body, Sepp Blatter, has said.
Much to the dismay of Tour de France organisers, a cloud of doping suspicion will hang over their race, and in particular over triple champion Alberto Contador, when the 2011 edition begins on Saturday.
Fiji will lodge an appeal against their exclusion from the 2010 Commonwealth Games with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Athletes from the Pacific Island nation have been banned from competing at next year's Games in India after Commonwealth leaders, meeting in Trinidad and Tobago, upheld an earlier decision to exlude Fiji. The Commonwealth suspended Fiji in September after the nation failed to meet a deadline for opening talks on a return to democracy.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Tuesday it had upheld PSG's appeal against UEFA on the grounds that the body took too long to review its own decision to clear the French champions of breaking Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.
A hearing in the case of Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky, who tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, has yet to be scheduled, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Wednesday.
Bayern Munich playmaker Franck Ribery's bid to overturn a red card which has ruled him out of Saturday's Champions League final against Inter Milan was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday.
Maria Sharapova will miss next month's Rio Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday decided to defer its decision on the Russian multiple grand slam champion's appeal against a two-year doping ban until September. Sharapova was seeking to have her ban, which was imposed on her by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in June, wiped out or reduced and a decision was initially expected to be announced by July 18.
Bayern Munich will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after UEFA upheld a three-match ban that will keep Franck Ribery out of the Champions League final, the German club said on Wednesday.
A four-year ban would prevent Russia from taking part in next year's Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
The transfer ban imposed on Chelsea by FIFA has been lifted after the Premier League club reached an agreement with French club Racing Lens over Gael Kakuta, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Thursday.
This issue was raised in the Lok Sabha by BJD member Bhartruhari Mahtab who said Chand has the potential to win a gold medal in Olympics and government must help her in the case.
Premier League club Chelsea have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the ban on signing new players imposed on them by FIFA, CAS said on Thursday.
Five-times Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein's dreams of a sixth Winter Games were snuffed out for good on Thursday when the German's appeal to be allowed to skate in Vancouver was thrown out.
Following the ban on Russia in 2016, Russian athletes have been allowed to participate as neutrals at various events by the IAAF. For Tokyo, WADA will lay down a uniform criterion for all sporting disciplines to accept.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has cleared the way for former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan to compete at the Rio Games after upholding his appeal against a Korean Olympic Committee doping ban, Yonhap news reported on Friday.
The verdict in Maria Sharapova's appeal against a two-year doping ban will be announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport will rule in the first week of October on five-times grand slam champion Maria Sharapova's appeal against a two-year tennis ban, the sports tribunal said on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Russian was banned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in June following a positive test for the banned drug meldonium during January's Australian Open.
West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell was banned on Tuesday for one year for a doping whereabouts rule violation.
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius can try to qualify for the Beijing Olympics after winning his appeal against a ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the South African's lawyer said. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruled in January that the runner could not compete with able-bodied athletes because the carbon-fibre blades attached to both legs gave him an advantage. The 21 year-old appealed to the CAS, which ruled in his favour on Friday.
Kamila Valieva is one of the youngest Olympic athletes to test positive for a banned substance
Sepp Blatter's current ban from the game was due to expire in October but the latest ban of six years and eight months, for ethics code violations, will take effect from that point.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova has been invited to play at the Madrid Open in May, which takes place less than two weeks after her 15-month doping ban expires, tournament organisers said on Wednesday.
