Zaenal, thecurfew-breaker
Cheeky Indonesia striker Zaenal Arif has apologised for breaking an Asian Cup curfew and admitted he was out much later than first thought.

Zaenal was dropped from the Indonesia squad days before their crunch Group D clash with South Korea after telling coach Ivan Kolev he had broken a 10.00 pm curfew by an hour.

Indonesia lost the game 1-0 and were dumped out of the tournament.

“I lied when I said I was in my room by 11.00 pm," he told a disciplinary hearing. The truth was I came back to the hotel at 2.30 am.” Zaenal had also handed over a cash bonus he received from the country’s soccer association.

Make doping a criminal offence
The British government has been urged to bolster its stance against doping in sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

On the day the British Olympic Association (BOA) announced the formation of a commission into anti-doping, the chairman of the IOC’s medical commission Professor Arne Ljungqvist said the Government should make doping a criminal offence.

He said stringent measures should be put in place to make sure London 2012 is a clean Games. Some European countries such as Italy have already criminalised doping in sport.
“Doping is unacceptable, a social crime,” Ljungqvist said. “A coming host of an Olympic Games should show a good example here.”

Earlier this year a cross-party committee of British MPs accused the government and UK Sport of ‘complacency’ in putting into place rigorous measures to catch drugs cheats.

Beijing hotels cash in on boom
Some Beijing hotels are raising their room rates by up to eight times to cash in on next year’s Olympic Games, a local newspaper reported.

More than half of the hotels surveyed by the Beijing News are not yet taking reservations with just over a year to go until the Games begin, but two- and three-star hotels look to be preparing to make the biggest price hikes.
One three-star establishment in the survey of 37 hotels has put up its daily rate for a standard room from 240 to 2,000 yuan.