[golf stars video] Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Women boxers will be able to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London and their participation in several other sports, including wrestling, cycling and swimming, as well as tennis doubles, is likely to increase following a decision by the IOC executive board on new sports for the Games. Boxing was the only Olympic sport without women competitors in the last Olympic games in Beijing in August 2008. There will be three weight categories, while the men will lose one of their 11 classes. The decision has been welcomed as a step forward for gender equality but also criticized by Headway, the brain injury association because of potential dangers.
Seven-a-side rugby and golf have been recommended for entry to the 2016 Games in South Africa and will now need the approval of the full IOC, which meets in Copenhagen in October. Golf and rugby federations are being invited to present their sports.
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The IOC (International Olympic Committee) has stripped three athletes of their medals and diplomas after reviewing results of drug tests in August in Beijing. Samples from the Games, which under new rules will be held for eight years, have all been returned to Lausanne for storage and another 500 tests will be run in January.
Basel, Switzerland (20min, Fre) – Olympic gold medalists Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka and Fabian Cancellara were warmly greeted by thousands of fans cheering the only Swiss athletes to receive gold in the Beijing Olympics.
