41.   Reineri said Jayasinghe was flanked by a large contingent from the Sri Lankan track federation.

42.   Some major track federations, worried that four year bans contravened national laws, had proposed a minimum two year suspension.

43.   Sotomayor will be suspended by the international track federation for two years, which includes the world championships later this month and the Sydney Olympics.

44.   The IAAF world track federation can still overrule the Italian decision not to seek ratification but it would be precedent in athletics history.

45.   The Italian national track federation cleared her to compete in Atlanta on grounds that she took the substance unwittingly in a Chinese herbal medicine for losing weight.

46.   The IAAF said the German track federation was committed to enforcing the ruling last September in which Baumann was suspended.

47.   The two year ban was imposed by a disciplinary committee of the Greek track federation.

48.   The Sri Lankan track federation cleared her of the drug charges after she said she used the drug to control her menstrual cycle.

49.   World record-holder Colin Jackson, in a feud with the head of the British track federation, said Friday he would boycott meets next season in Britain.