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Group stages drawn for 2013 Women's Handball World Championship

By James Crook

2013 Womens World Handball Championships logoJuly 31 - The preliminary round draw has been made for the International Handball Federation (IHF) 2013 Women's World Championships in Serbia, and the pick of the draw will see Olympic and defending world champions Norway face 2011 bronze medallists Spain in the opening round.



IAAF ban nine Turkish athletes as doping problem highlighted

By Duncan Mackay

Ali Ekber KayasJuly 31 - Turkey's doping problems were put firmly under the spotlight again today when the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that nine athletes had been banned after failing drugs tests - just two days after its President Lamine Diack had warned they needed to "clean their house".