November 27 - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said today it had lodged an appeal seeking harsher doping bans on seven Russian female athletes, including two-times world 1500 metres champion Tatyana Tomashova (pictured), at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.

By Duncan Mackay

November 27 - An attempt to get a ban on Fiji's athletes competing at the Commonwealth Games next year overturned at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, is set to be defeated.

By Duncan Mackay

November 27 - An attempt to get a ban on Fiji's athletes competing at the Commonwealth Games next year overturned at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, is set to be defeated.