Sporting Digest: Athletics

KATRIN KRABBE, the double world sprint champion, and her team-mates, Grit Breuer and Manula Derr, are prepared to go to the German civil courts to fight a drug ban which will prevent them from taking part in the world championships in Stuttgart in August. On Monday, the International Amateur Athletic Federation's world council called for more information on whether the use of clenbuterol, an anabolic agent that the trio tested positive for last year, was to gain an unfair advantage.