Soccer: Fifa president Sepp Blatter considers the race row he sparked to be over and insists he maintains a "zero tolerance" policy towards racism.
The head of world football's governing body caused controversy when he suggested racist disputes on the field should be settled with a handshake. He later insisted he never meant to undermine the fight against racism and has since apologised.
Speaking at the Asian Football Confederation's headquarters in Malaysia on Wednesday, Blatter said: "I have made my apologies and I cannot say more. Anybody still thinking that I am a racist, I am sorry to hear that.
"I have been working now for 37 years in Fifa and I started working in Africa. There is no discrimination in my feeling and there is no racism, nothing at all.
"This matter, for me, is over. I cannot say more than that.
"We go forward and there is zero tolerance in racism and in discrimination and zero tolerance in all activities on the field of play and outside the field of play.
"During my activities as Fifa president nothing surprises me, but I was very much hurt by these comments because it touched my conscience and in my conscience is the determination I have to go against any discrimination."
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