Daily Steroids ban: Olympics gone wild; Italian fancer Andrea Baldini nailed with doping

1.  Italian fancer Andrea Baldini tested positive for furoside, a diuretic that is counted as a masking agent.  (RTE Sport)

2.  Azerbijian wants the Spanish field hockey team kicked out of the Olympics.  (SI)

Azerbaijan asked the Olympics' arbitration court Friday to remove Spain's women's field hockey team from the Beijing Games for doping violations and let Azerbaijan's team compete instead.

Azerbaijan's national Olympic committee and national hockey federation lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which has put a special tribunal in place in Beijing to rule quickly on disputes involving the Aug. 8-24 games.

Azerbaijan is challenging a decision by the International Hockey Federation, known as FIH, on alleged doping violations by two Spanish players at an Olympic qualifying tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.

3.  Greece's Katerina Thanou says the world discriminates against women who dope.  (AFP)

4.  Did anyone answer the phone as Julien Dunkley's house when the Jamaican Olympic committee called to tell him he doped?  (Jamaican Observer)

5.  Sentana Sport say Italian cyclist Ricco should expect a long long ban.