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Retired Bolt flummoxed by drug-testing notice Sprint hero Usain Bolt says he is stunned after being handed a drug-testing notice despite retiring from athletics and having no professional contract as he bids to launch a football career in Australia. The 100metre world record holder quit athletics last year and is yet to be offered a deal by Australia’s Central Coast Mariners, where he is on trial. “So guys, I’ve retired from track and field looking to become a footballer but look at this,” Bolt said yesterday via an Instagram video as he zoomed in on the notice. The demand for the out-of-competition test – to collect urine and blood – appears to have been issued by Football Federation Australia. “How am I going to get a drug test today? I’m not even a professional footballer yet. Seriously,” Bolt said. “So I asked the lady, ‘Why am I getting drug tested when I haven’t signed for a club yet?’ and she said they told her I’m an elite athlete so I have to get tested. Okay then.” ▷▷▷ Gascoigne gets into spat over hall of fame entry Paul Gascoigne has hit back at the Scottish Football Association and insisted he does not need to be in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame to know he was “the best”. The former Rangers midfielder was recently voted into the hall of fame only for his induction to be cancelled amid reports that some SFA board members were planning to boycott the dinner this month. Gascoigne wrote on Twitter: “I don’t need to be in The Scottish Hall of Fame to be recognised as one of the best I feel the love & support of the People and know I was the best.” The former England midfielder also used footage of his Euro 96 goal against Scotland to the SFA’s Twitter account with the message: “No hard feelings xxxx”. Kompany Sr is Belgium’s first black elected mayor Pierre Kompany, the father of Manchester City captain and Belgian international defender Vincent, became Belgium’s first black elected mayor yesterday after his party topped the poll in the Brussels suburb Ganshoren. Pierre Kompany, 71, arrived in Belgium in 1975 as a refugee from what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has since been naturalised as a citizen and entered politics. He was head of the centrist CDH list in Sunday’s municipal election in Ganshoren, a bilingual French and Dutch speaking town of 25,000 just outside the Belgian capital, and will take office in December. “He’s the first black mayor in Belgium,” Vincent said on Instagram. “It has never happened before. It’s historic. We’re all delighted. Bravo to my father.”