CROATIAN AUTHORITIES detain and charge nine football hooligans in connection with an attack on a bus carrying forty Paok FC fans to a Europa League match against Dinamo Zagreb last December. Four Greek nationals were injured in the attack.
IAAF ISSUES a two-year suspension against Olympic medalist Piyi Devetzi after the triple-jumper fails to submit for a doping test in May 2009 in Ukraine. Devetzi’s two-year ineligibility ends on December 8, 2012.
MEANTIME, the trial of Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou on charges of perjury continues with testimony from their coach, Christos Tzekos, who obliquely denied the charges claiming IOC bias against them. The two sprinters and Olympic medalists are accused of staging a motorcycle accident to avoid a doping test.
UEFA LAUNCHES an investigation into complaints by Manchester City players that lasers were being shone into their eyes during a Europa League match against Aris.