LIE DETECTOR
Bulgarian shooter Antoaneta Boneva, (22), who tested positive for cocaine less than a month before the Beijing Olympics, voluntarily submitted to a lie detector test at the Interior Ministry by her own volition on June 28 2008. The detector proved she did not lie when she said that she had never taken cocaine. Boneva was tested in a tournament in Italy earlier this year and her first sample tested positive for cocaine. She said she was willing to take a hari test and prove her innocence. Despite the lie detector test, she will miss the Summer Olympics on August 8-24.

CSKA AND TOMOV
Alexander Tomov, former president of CSKA Sofia football club, has been charged with embezzlement of 3.5 million euro. Tomov told reporters the news himself on July 2 after being questioned for two hours at the National Investigative Service. Tomov denied the accusations and said that he had a document confirming that 3.5 million euro was the price at which CSKA’s former owner Vassil Bozhkov sold the club. Tomov left CSKA in June after the club’s financial problems cost it a place in next season’s Uefa’s championship league tournament. The club was denied a licence to play in Bulgaria’s group A next season as well.

SUMO
Bulgaria’s sumo team won two silver and three bronze medals at the European Sumo Championship held in the Polish city of Krotoszyn on June 30. Peter Stoyanov and Daniel Kolev won second place. Anna Metodieva, Gabriela Vassileva and the men’s team won bronze medals. Twenty countries and 400 athletes took part in the event.