Amputee Pistorius appeals against Olympic ban
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South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday against his ban from running at this year's Beijing Olympics with artificial limbs.
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South Korea have appealed to sport&#39;s supreme legal body in an attempt to award Yang Tae-young the Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal after a scoring error robbed him of the title in Athens.
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Track and fieldâs governing body ruled that a sprinterâs prosthetic legs gave him an unfair advantage.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan  Milosevic made a passionate appeal to judges to allow him to  defend himself at his trial Thursday but prosecutors said he  was not fit enough and was thwarting progress.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency is to challenge the lifting of drugs bans on Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif.
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Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee, finishes second in a 400m race against able-bodied runners at a Rome meeting.
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The US Olympic Committee has filed an appeal with the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to block a decision that would strip Michael Johnson and the rest of the US men&#39;s 4x400 relay team members of their 2000 Olympic gold medals because of
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Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter, finished second before a cheering crowd in Olympic Stadium, trailing only Stefano Braciola, who won in 46.72 seconds.
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World 100 meters record holder Tim  Montgomery will have his appeal against a possible life ban for  doping heard in San Francisco in the week beginning June 6.
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The British Olympic Association is considering a move to bring a protest of Aaron Peirsol's gold medal victory in the 200-meter backstroke before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, has appealed to a Beijing court against a decision to overturn its China patent for its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Someday, a runner with a prosthetic leg may challenge to run in the Olympics. In the meantime, there should be a way to infuse Oscar Pistoriusâs spirit into all of us, within Olympic rules, of course.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  -- The IAAF ruled Monday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetic racing legs give him a clear competitive advantage.
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Sprinter Justin Gatlin got his doping ban reduced but not by enough to make him eligible to defend his Olympic 100-meter title this year, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- FINA, the swimming&#39;s world governing body, has rejected protest from national federations of Britain and Austria over American Aaron Peirsol&#39;s reinstatement after he was disqualified in the 200m backstroke final at the ...
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Hungarian hammer thrower Adrian Annus has appealed against the removal of his Olympic gold medal. Annus was stripped of his title after failing to submit to a follow-up drugs test in Athens last month.
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US Olympic officials Friday rejected as âdeplorableâ a suggestion by the International Gymnastics Federation that menâs all-around individual champion Paul Hamm