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Los Angeles - Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen and American football star Tom Brady tied the knot in an intimate California ceremony, news reports said.
The couple married Thursday in a Catholic service in Santa Monica with only close family and friends attending, according to the celebrity news site Usmagazine.com.
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 Tyler Perry scored a big victory on the typically slow Oscar
weekend, walking away with the No. 1 movie, "Madea Goes to Jail,"
which raked in $41.1 million. All four of the cross-dressing comedian's
"Madea" movies have opened in first place, but this latest
installment was the highest-grossing ever for Perry's...
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Richard Gasquet knocked out former tennis classmate Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 to reach his fourth semi-final in six months at the Brisbane International on Friday.
Tsonga, last year's Australian Open finalist, will face off on Saturday against Czech Radek Stepanek, who defeated Swede Robin Soderling 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Tsonga,...
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Only hours after a first-round upset in Brisbane on Tuesday, Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic was set to head to Sydney to tune his tennis at the Medibank International.
The world number three was granted a late wildcard into the men's and women's event which starts on Sunday, one week prior to the Open.
The Serb crashed...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made successful injury comebacks at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 in the eight-nation team event.
The Slovak Republic hammered the defending champion and five-time holder the US through singles victories from teenager Dominika Cibulkova and...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a successful injury comeback at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 at the eight-nation team event.
Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip surgery, winning his singles over Nicolas Kiefer 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-2.
Dellacqua, who had to...
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Jelena Dokic will have to fight to keep her tennis dream alive after losing to a Brisbane teenager Tuesday in the wild card playoffs for next month's Australian Open.
Former world number four Dokic lost on the second day of play at Melbourne Park, falling to Monica Wejnert 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
"She's probably the highest...
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Nicaragua's capital was bracing for large demonstrations Tuesday by the ruling Sandinista party and the opposition after supporters of President Daniel Ortega blocked an important highway through Managua, forcing opposition leaders to seek refuge in a church.
The supporters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front cut off the...
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Most of the around 1 million people that succumb to malaria annually still have no access to effective testing and drugs, international medical non-governmental organization, Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres MSF), said Tuesday.
"Although effective tools exist to identify and treat malaria - one of the main...
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 British rock band Coldplay’s new album “Viva
la Vida or Death and All His Friends” sold 316,000 copies in the United States
in its first day of release and it is expected to reach No.1 this week with
over 720,000 copies sold in its first week. The band’s previous album, “X&Y”
also debuted at No.1, with 737,000 copies sold during...
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 People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) leaders have given scientists everywhere a new research direction, as they have promised a prize of $1 million to whoever can manage to mass-produce artificial viable meat. Although the offer comes with a deadline, the summer of 2012, there should be enough time to figure out a solution for...
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 Another week, another elimination took place on ABC’s “Dancing
With the Stars” on Tuesday night. The 62-year-old Priscilla Presley was the one
to say “Good-Bye!” to the show this week along with her partner Louis Van Amstel.
Apparently, her sexy dance including the splits mid-routine was not enough for
the “Dancing With the Stars”...
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 The sixth season of “Dancing With
the Stars” was announced during the finale of “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie
Ann.” The celebrity cast was announced by three former contestants of the
second season of “Dancing with the Stars”: tenth place finisher Kenny Mayne, fourth-place
finisher Lisa Rinna, and runner-up Jerry Rice. The show will...
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 The end of the 2007-2008 wrestling season coincides with
another ending: CW’s “Friday Night Smackdown” has been dropped off by the
network.
In separate statements issued by CW and the World Wrestling
Entertainment, it has been announced that a mutual agreement put to an end
their partnership, its success over the years being...
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 “People” magazine’s 2005 sexiest man alive is now sexiest
soon-to-become dad alive, as Matthew McConaughey announced on his Web site that
he and his girlfriend are expecting a baby.
McConaughey and Brazilian model Camila Alves have been
together for a little more than a year and, as the actor stated on his Web
site, they had been...
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 The US tennis player Mardy Fish paved the way for its team to reach the final of the Hopman Cup for the fifth time, as he defeated Australian Peter Luczak 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (12-10). As he fired 25 aces to save set points, Fish needed six match points to prevail after the he saved three shots of the Australian to send the match into a third...
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 According to scientists at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Inc., they
have created a drug that mimics the ingredient in red wine linked to longevity
and the cell structures that power endurance athletes like cycling champion
Lance Armstrong.
The new molecule is 1,000 times more potent than the wine
derivative, resveratrol, and could lead...
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Liberec, Czech Republic - France led the way after ski-jumping in the world championship Nordic combined team event on Thursday in which the fancied United States met disaster and title holders Finland had to swallow a major handicap.
The first US jumper, normal hill bronze medallist Bill Demong, was disqualified as he forgot his bib....
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Prague - Three years ago Katerina Neumannova surged to the front on the finish line for the Czech Republic's first-ever Olympic gold in Nordic skiing.
Now, her triumphs in sports management depend on how she glides through the Nordic World Championships that open in northern Czech town of Liberec on Wednesday.
Neumannova, who...
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Paris - The hoped-for return of Maria Sharapova has now likely been pushed back to the Indian Wells event in early March in California after the injured former number 1 Russian withdrew from next week's indoor tournament in Paris.
Sharapova missed her Australian Open title defence and has played only one match since Wimbledon in...
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Wiesbaden, Germany - Beer consumption in Germany, which once prided itself as a world champion of beer culture, has declined for yet another year as Germans reach for a glass of fizzy water instead, national statistics issued Thursday show.
Domestic sales by the German breweries fell 0.9 per cent last year to 8.7 billion litres, and...
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Oslo - Olympic ski-jump champion Lars Bystoel of Norway faces a four-month ban after testing positive for doping, the agency Anti-Doping Norway said Wednesday.
The agency's disciplinary body recommended the ban after a test conducted in connection with a competition at the end of November 2008 revealed traces of cannabis.
A panel...
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Title holder Lewis Hamilton will be the man to beat as Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen set their sights on the 2009 Formula One world title.
But Brazil's Massa vowed on Thursday at Ferrari's annual winter retreat in the Alps that he will give the McLaren driver Hamilton another big fight.
"The most important...
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A baby girl delivered by British doctors two days after her mother was declared clinically dead from a brain haemorrhage has been named Aya, which means miracle in Arabic, her father told a British newspaper Tuesday.
Doctors at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford kept the heart of 41-year-old Jayne Soliman beating for two days after...
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Dinara Safina and big brother Marat Safin polished their sibling act to stay in the chase for the Hopman Cup final with a 2-0 win over Taiwan Wednesday night.
The nation fights for a place in the Friday title match-up with a face-off against France on Thursday.
Safina, third in the world, began the run to success as she mounted a...
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Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl soared to a stunning Four Hills ski-jumping triumph when he again left the pre-tournament favourites in his wake to clinch the title on Tuesday.
Loitzl had the 25,000-strong home crowd in Bischofshofen in raptures with huge jumps of 142.5 metres and 141.5 metres to complete a hat-trick of victories in the...
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Finnish women skiers Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Virpi Kuitunen are favourites in this season's Tour de Ski in the absence of Swedish title holder Charlotte Kalla, while the men's race appears wide open.
Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic has not been as dominant as last year which raises doubts whether he can defend his title at the third...
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Despite ranking outside the Top 500 and last playing a match in October, 2006, France's Mary Pierce says she is not ready to call time on her career.
The Australian Open champion in 1995, finalist a dozen years ago and home champion at the French Open in 2000 suffered a serious knee injury during a match in Linz, Austria more than...
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Croatia's Ivica Kostelic won the men's slalom in Alta Badia Monday to register the ninth World Cup victory of his career.
The 2003 slalom world champion claimed victory with a time of 1 minute 39.83 seconds for his two runs. France's Jean-Baptiste Grange took second spot in 1:40.03 with Benjamin Raich of Austria third with a time of...
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Germany may host the world athletics championships in 2009 but apart from the Berlin event the situation in the nation's sports is as bleak as the economic forecasts.
The former sports power lacks stars in major sports ranging from football to athletics and swimming. In addition, there is an almost frightening disappearance of events...
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Europe's biggest car terminal is bursting at the seams as unsold cars pile up, mirroring the dramatic situation in the automobile industry.
More than 90,000 vehicles are clogging the shipping terminal in the north German port of Bremerhaven, waiting to find new owners.
"We can't move the cars, work on them or deliver them...
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Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen Friday won the second men's sprint of the biathlon World Cup season.
The two-time 2008 world champion made no mistake on the shooting range at Hochfilzen to power to victory in the 10-kilometre sprint ahead of Russia's Ivan Cheresov and fellow Norwegian Alexander Os.
Svendsen had dominated last...
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Hockenheim could continue to host Formula One races if the German government pledged to support it, the circuit's top manager said Friday.
"The Formula One race is a mega-event, something like a football World Cup. The federal government could do something for it," Karl- Josef Schmidt, CEO of the Hockenheimring GmbH...
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Corey Pavin looks set to replace Paul Azinger as US Ryder Cup captain for the 2010 event with Europe.
The United States defeated Europe 16[0xbd]-11[0xbd] at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky in September to win the trophy for the first time since 1999 but have not secured victory in Europe since The Belfry in 1993. The 2010 contest...
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Greece's former 400 metres hurdles Olympic champion Fani Halkia was Friday suspended for two years by the Greek athletics federation SEGAS.
Halkia was tested positive for banned steroids at the Beijing Olympics and barred from competing.
The Athens 2004 Olympic champion, her coach and two more athletes have already been charged by...
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Marcello Lippi hasn't said much about it but he certainly won't be pulling any punches when he takes his world champion squad to the Confederations Cup that Italy play for the first time next June.
The event organized by football's ruling body FIFA has gradually evolved into a prestigious warm-up tournament taking place one year...
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Jelena Jankovic topped the year-ending women's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the WTA, with Venus Williams climbing into sixth place courtesy of her title at the 2008 finale in Doha.
Jankovic, who was stopped in the Doha semis by Williams, tops the final list with 4,710 points. She was assured of the 2008 top spot ahead of the...
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The IAAF, the governing body of world athletics, has imposed two-year doping bans on eight Russian athletes for testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO.
It emerged Thursday that the athletes include Vladimir Kanaikin, the 20-kilometre walk world record holder, and Alexei Voyevodin, 50km walk bronze medalist at the Athens...
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Former world champion Fernando Alonso has renewed his contract at Renault until 2010, the French Formula One team announced on Wednesday.
Team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr was given another one-year contract.
The Spaniard Alonso hopes to relive his glory of the past at the team for which he won the world title in 2005 and 2006. He spent...
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Newly-crowned world champion Lewis Hamilton is looking to win at least two more Formula One drivers' titles but the McLaren-Mercedes driver feels Michael Schumacher's tally of seven remains out of his reach.
"I don't plan on winning seven world championships - that's a little bit much for me, I think. Michael can keep that...
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Wladimir Klitschko will defend his IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against former champion Hasim Rahman in Mannheim, Germany, on December 13.
Confirming the fight on his website, Klitschko said: "Hasim Rahman is a very strong and experienced opponent who I definitely won't be underestimating."
Rahman, who will be 36 when...
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Lewis Hamilton's coronation as the youngest champion in the history of Formula following a nail-biting finale in the Brazilian Grand Prix has left racing audiences throughout the world crying out for more.
In an action-packed race Sunday, Hamilton exorcised the ghosts of a year earlier, when he threw away a 17-point lead in the final...
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A Greek prosecutor charged Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion Fani Halkia with criminal doping offences Friday after she failed a dope test ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Reports said that aside from Halkia, Greek prosecutors also charged sprinters Dimitris Regas and Tassos Gousis with consuming banned substances, as well...
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Novak Djokovic may be dipping his toes into management at age 21 after his father and uncle purchased the cash-short Dutch Open tournament with plans to move it to Belgrade for Serbia's first ATP event from next season.
"We bought the licence to have a tournament in Serbia next year so this is our big goal," said the world...
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Gilles Simon continued the Madrid misery for James Blake on Tuesday as he kept the American without a career win in the Spanish capital after a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 defeat in the second round of the Masters.
In addition to five losses in Madrid, Blake was also embarrassed last April in a Barcelona debut. The loss leaves him trailing even...
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Greek prosecutors began investigations into women's 400-metre hurdler Fani Halkia on Tuesday following her failed doping test ahead of the Beijing Olympic.
The 2004 Olympic champion and her trainer Giorgos Panayiotopoulos testifed before a public prosecutor in Athens who called upom them to give explanations.
Both Halkia and her...
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The German cycling federation BDR was on Tuesday set to investigate two-time Tour de France stage winner Stephan Schumacher after a positive doping test for third-generation EPO.
"The (BDR) board will come to an agreement today to launch proceedings," BDR boss Rudolf Scharping told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The...
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German-based gynaecologist Monika Hauser has spent 15 years helping women who have suffered sexual violence in areas of conflict.
The founder of Medica Mondiale began her work with women and girls in Bosnia and later in war and post-war conflict zones ranging from Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
She was...
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World number one Rafael Nadal faces Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic when Davis Cup finalist Spain hosts Serbia in the first round of the 2009 edition of the tennis team event.
Tuesday's draw in Madrid also gave the other finalists, Argentina, a home tie, against the Netherlands.
Being the top seeds next year, Argentina and...
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Spain may be engaging in some pre-match mental warfare ahead of Friday's start of the Davis Cup quarter-final tie against the US, with Rafael Nadal reported to be suffering with fatigue after a long season.
High altitude in Madrid on a clay court laid inside a bull ring will balance the tie, according to Spanish captain Emilio Sanchez...
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Declining demand in its European neighbours put a dent in German exports in July, while imports rose strongly, according to official figures from the federal statistics office on Tuesday.
Exports fell 1.7 per cent from the June level, on a seasonally adjusted basis, with analysts blaming the strength of the euro and high oil prices,...
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 Russian media claims President Vladimir Putin divorced his
wife in order to marry a former gymnast less than half his age. Putin, 55, is said
to have secretly divorced his wife, Ljudmila to tie the knot with 24-year-old
Olympic gold medalist Alina Kabaeva, who is now a member of the Russian
parliament. According to the Russian...
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 Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland, aged 64, after a long illness.
Fischer, the US national who won the chess title in 1972 against
then-reigning champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, had lived in
Iceland since 2005.
Fischer spokesman Gardar Sverisson said he died Thursday in...
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 Dissident and former chess champion Garry Kasparov has been prevented
from standing as a candidate in Russia's presidential vote, his
spokeswoman said Thursday.
Kasparov's beleaguered opposition coalition the Other Russia was
repeatedly blocked by authorities from finding a venue in which to hold
a congress to nominate him, Maria...
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 President Vladimir Putin upheld the candidature of First Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to succeed him in office when his
presidency ends in March.
Putin meeting with party leaders Monday, including United Russia
which won by a landslide in the recent parliamentary election, said he
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 Former Russian premier Mikhail Kasyanov was nominated Saturday to run
as a candidate in the March 2008 presidential elections, Echo Moskwy
radio reported.
Kasyanov, 50, who had served as premier from 2000 to 2004 before
falling into disfavour with President Vladimir Putin, was nominated at
a congress of a citizens' voter...
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 According to exit polls conducted by Russian
state-controlled companies, President Vladimir Putin's party winning more than
60 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
The vote projections were released Sunday evening by Russian
media, just minutes after the last polling stations closed in the Baltic
enclave of Kaliningrad....
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 Russian voters went to the polls Sunday in parliamentary elections
expected to deliver a sweeping victory to President Vladimir Putin's
party.
Accusations that Putin's party United Russia enjoyed an unfair
advantage were echoed by all 11 parties participating in the vote,
which is seen as a referendum on Putin's political...
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 Celebrated opposition figure and ex-chess champion Garry Kasparov was
released from jail Thursday after serving five days for his role in
protest marches ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections.
"His arrest is representative of the violence to normal human
rights occurring in Russia today," Kasparov's spokeswoman...
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 Russia's impending presidential polls once again took centre stage in
the run-up to December 2 parliamentary elections when the government
newspaper Rossiikaya Gazeta on Wednesday published the official date
for the vote.
The declaration immediately launched the application process for
the presidential election, to be held on...
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 Just one week before Russia elects a new lower house, or Duma,
opposition politician and former chess world champion Garry Kasparov
and dozens of others have been arrested during a rally in Moscow, Echo
Moskvy radio reported on Saturday.
After the protest against President Vladimir Putin and his
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Liberec, Czech Republic - Lindsey Van of the United States made ski history on Friday when she won the first world title on offer in women's ski-jumping.
Placed fourth after the first round with 89 metres, Van, 24, soared the day's longest jump of 97m in the second round to win with 243.0 points.
First-round leader Ulrike Graessler...
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Warsaw - Polish Olympic gold medalist Kamila Skolimowska died Wednesday night at 26 after collapsing during a training session in Portugal, Polish radio reported Thursday.
Skolimowska won the gold medal in the hammer throw at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She died on her way to a hospital.
"We are all in shock and waiting for...
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Four world records tumbled in a remarkable second day of Olympic swimming Monday as American superstar Michael Phelps' attempt to win an unprecedented eight gold medals stayed on track. In shooting, Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event, while Japan's women toppled China's top-seeded 2004...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Monday that it accepted Iranian swimmer Mohammad Alirezaei did not swim in his 100-metre breaststroke heat owing to sickness and not because Israel's Tom Beeri was also competing.
"The athlete has withdrawn because of sickness. He confirmed this in writing to his federation,"...
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Nick Heidfeld's future at
BMW Sauber remains uncertain, with the German admitting to experiencing
a difficult phase of the Formula One season.
BMW motorsport director Mario Theissen has been giving nothing away
on the team's plans for 2009 as speculation surrounds both Heidfeld and
his Polish team-mate Robert Kubica.
Theissen...
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The Olympic dream of banned
sprint champion Justin Gatlin ended on Thursday when an appeals court
in Atlanta dismissed his plea for an injunction to compete at the
United States trials for the Beijing Games.
The Circuit Court of Appeals said that Gatlin did not show the applicable standard for such an injunction.
Gatlin said he...
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 The United States Olympic Games trials took place on Saturday, in New York, on a rather difficult track, the last 25 miles of Central Park. The top three finalists will attend the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.From the favorites, Abdi Abdirahman, Meb Keflezighi and Ryan Hall, only the last one succeeded to reach one of the three first...
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 The well known tennis champion Martina Hingis, who has won five Grand Slams, announced her retiring in the same time as she was found positive for cocaine in a drug test occurred at this year’s Wimbledon.In a press conference, the 27 Swiss athlete has denied the accusations, saying that while A and B urine test turned out positive for...
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 In a statement made on Friday, the McLaren- Mercedes Formula One team has declared that the double world champion, Fernando Alonso, will leave the team, as a decision agreed by both parts, after only one year out of his three year contract with the team.McLaren stated that they have reached a mutual agreement that it would be in the best...
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Seoul - In the gloom of South Korea's economic problems, a flash of hope and joy has come from the skating queen Kim Yu-Na, 19, who unseated the reigning champion, Mao Asada of Japan, and won the Four Continents figure stating championship in Vancouver last Friday.
Yu-Na owes her stardom to her graceful presence and calm...
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Top seed Elena Dementieva accomplished what around 20 protestors could not as she sent Israeli Shahar Peer out in the quarter-finals of the ASB Classic on Thursday.
Peer, who underwent Israeli military training which took time away from her tennis in recent season, had been the target of protests against her country's current...
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Spaniard Carlos Sainz edged Qatari driver Nasser al-Attiyah by six seconds to win the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally on Tuesday.
Sainz, driving a Volkswagen Race Touareg, fought an exciting duel with BMW X3 driver al-Attiyah on the ascent to the 1,314-metre-high Col Calderon during the 484-kilometre stage from Jacobacci to Neuquen...
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Belarussian hammer throwers Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan are to be stripped of the medals they won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported Thursday, citing International Olympic Committee (IOC) sources.
Silver-medallist Devyatovskiy and bronze winner Tsikhan tested positive for traces of testosterone...
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The tense, violent standoff surrounding a disputed house in Hebron underscores once again the problems Israel faces as it grapples with radical and radicalised settlers who are increasingly rejecting the authority of the state.
The settlers have taken over a house in the divided southern West Bank city, vowing to defy any attempt by...
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A violent stand-off between radical Israelis and Palestinians in Hebron elicited a storm of criticism in the Israeli media Wednesday, with most commentators calling for the settlers to be removed from a disputed house in the divided West Bank city.
More than two weeks of heightened tensions in Hebron boiled over Tuesday, when dozens...
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Gilles Simon put himself into position for a possible spot in the semi-finals of the Masters Cup with a Friday victory, but will have to await the fate of Roger Federer.
The French debutant pounded alternate Radek Stepanek 6-1, 6-4 in 65 minutes, breaking three times and never in danger against the Czech who filled in at the last...
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Shi Han Min, who led the Beijing's effort to clean up its air for the 2008 Olympic Games, on Wednesday won the first Kong Ha Award for excellence in air quality management.
The award, which included a 10,000-dollar purse, was granted to Shi at the Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, which has drawn 900 delegates from the...
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Lewis Hamilton made a statement of strength on Friday as the world championship leader dominated both free practice sessions for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix.
The Briton Hamilton drove his McLaren-Mercedes around the 5.451-kilometres course in 1 minute 35.630 seconds in the morning session.
He was also unbeatable in the...
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With just the Chinese and Brazilian Grand Prix races remaining last season, McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton had an advantage of 12 points over his closest rivals.
He threw away his commanding lead in the last two races however, when he bizarrely decided not to change from intermediate tyres and slipped off the track and retired...
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Timo Glock of Germany led the way for home team Toyota in Friday's free practice for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix.
Glock clocked 1 minute 18.383 seconds in the day's second session on the 4.563-kilometres course at the foot of Mount Fuji.
The Singapore GP winner Fernando Alonso came second in a Renault in 1:18.424, followed...
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Second seed Andy Roddick bore down on a second Asian title in as many weeks, earning a revenge win over Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Japan Open on Friday.
The American, who laid down a modest seven aces, said that his quarter-final loss to the Serb in Washington last summer may have been in the back of his...
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Formula One heads into unknown territory on the weekend for the maiden Singapore Grand Prix which also marks the first race under floodlights.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton must overcome the disappointment of having an appeal against a latest penalty revoked and like all other drivers will have to adapt to the unfamiliar...
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Russia's synchronized swimming team collected their third Olympic gold medal in succession Saturday at a sold-out National Aquatics Centre in Beijing.
Anastasia Ermakova and Anastasia Davidova, winners of the duet gold three days ago, led their team to victory with a total of 99.500 points.
European champion Spain took silver with...
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Ken Wallace of Australia took gold in the men's K1 500-metre kayak race at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park Saturday, coming from behind to finish ahead of Canada's Adam van Koeverden.
Wallace trailed defending Olympic champion van Koeverden at the halfway stage but finished the stronger to claim victory in a time of 1 minute...
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Russia's Maxim Opalev finally made it to the top of the Olympic medal podium Saturday when he won the men's C1 500- metre canoe race at the third attempt.
Meanwhile in the K1 500m, Ken Wallace of Australia took gold in the men's event while Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine prevailed in the women's race.
Spain's Saul Craviotto and...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win the slow-paced race in 15 minutes 41.40 seconds. Victory came a week after she won the 10,000m gold.
As in the 10,000m, Elvan...
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Defending Olympic modern pentathlon champion Andrey Moiseev won the gold medal on Thursday at the Beijing Olympics with a total 5632 points.
The Russian had a 84 point advantage over Lithuanian Edvinas Krungolcas and another Lithuanian Andrejus Zadneprovskis, who was a further 24 points behind.
The 29-year-old Russian, who is also...
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LaShawn Merritt ended the 400 metres dominance of Jeremy Wariner on Thursday when he claimed Olympic gold at the Beijing Games in a United States medal sweep.
Merritt beat Wariner for the third time this season when it really mattered, running away on the home straight for victory in 43.75 seconds which makes him the fifth-fastest man...
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Ukrainian heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska has been provisionally suspended from the Beijing Games over a positive doping test, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.
The move was made to prohibit her from competing in Friday's long jump final after Blonska's a and b samples, taken after Saturday's end of...
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World and European champion Ramazan Sahin of Turkey just managed to live up to expectations Wednesday when he took Olympic gold in the men's 66-kilogram freestyle wrestling category while Russia's Buvaysa Saytiev successfuly defended his 74kg title.
Sahin narrowly overcame Ukraine's Andriy Stadnik 6-5 in a tough gold-medal match while...
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Olympic 1,500m champion Rashid Ramzi is likely to withdraw from the 5,000m race, the Bahraini delegation announced on Wednesday.
The Moroccan-born athlete, who now runs for Bahrain, beat Kenyan runner Asbel Kiprop on Tuesday night to win the gold medal for the 1,500m in a time of 3 minutes 32.94 seconds. He was due to run in...
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Chen Yibing and He Kexin continued China's strong showing in the gymnastics disciplines with victories in the men's rings and women's uneven bars Monday while Poland's Leszek Blanik took gold in the men's vault.
China also took gold in the women's trampoline when He Wenna finished ahead of Canada's Karen Cockburn and Jekaterina Chilko...
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Great Britain continued its powerful showing on the cycling track Monday, taking Olympic gold in the men's team pursuit event while Marianne Vos of the Netherlands won the women's cycling points race.
The British team of Ed Clancy, Paul Manning, Thomas Geraint and the men's individual pursuit champion Bradley Wiggins defeated Denmark...
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Chen Yibing of China beat compatriot and newly- crowned all-around Olympic champion Yang Wei to take gold in the men's rings gymnastics event Monday at the National indoor stadium.
World champion Chen proved too strong in his speciality discipline, securing gold with a total of 16.6000 for his routine.
Yang had to be satisfied with...
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Cao Lei of China set new Olympic records in the snatch and clean and jerk on her way to gold in the women's weightlifting 75-kilogram division Friday at the BUAA Gymnasium in Beijing.
The 2007 world champion Cao claimed victory thanks to lifts of 128kg in the snatch and 154kg in the clean and jerk for an Olympic record total of...
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Ukraine's Artur Ayvazian took gold in the men's 50-metre prone rifle Friday to deny defending Olympic champion Matthew Emmons of the United States a second successive winner's medal in the event.
Ayvazian secured the win with a total of 702.7 points, one point clear of Emmons with Warren Potent of Australia third on 700.5 points.
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Host China got a first swim gold at the Beijing Olympics from Liu Zige with a world record 100 metres butterfly performance on Thursday while Alain Bernard gave France its first- ever gold in the showpiece 100m freestyle sprint.
The Australian women's 4x200m relay team smashed the world record to take the gold and Japan's Kosuke...
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The Olympic showcase sport of athletics finally gets underway on Friday - with the 100 metres dash and 110m hurdles the most anticipated events.
World record holder Usain Bolt (9.72 seconds), former record holder Asafa Powell (9.74) and world champion Tyson Gay (9.77) form a formidable trio set to battle for gold on Saturday in what...
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Olympic medals won, marathon hope Mizuki Noguchi pulling out - there's been a mixed response in Japan to what the country's athletes are achieving in Beijing.
Daily newspapers ran front page headlines celebrating Japan's first gold in women's judo, with pictures of Ayumi Tanimoto's big smile after throwing her opponent Lucie Decosse...
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World champion hurdler Jana Rawlinson is out of the Beijing Olympics with a toe injury, news reports said Wednesday. Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper said the 400-metre hurdles specialist had pulled out of the Australia squad. She raced for the first time in nine months in Poland last week but her toe problem has recurred. ...
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 Japan’s
outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was rushed to the hospital one day after
resigning from fatigue, stress, and psychological anguish. Prime Minister Shinzo
is the latest Japanese high profile figure to be submitted to treatment due to
overwork, in a nation globally know for its stressed out laborers.
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The suddenly slumping Boston Celtics have lost their way and some of their swagger.
China's Yao Ming scored 26 points, Von Wafer drilled the go-ahead three-pointer with 44 seconds left and the Houston Rockets sent the the Celtics to their third straight loss, with an 89-85 victory on Wednesday night.
The stumbling Rockets (22-15)...
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Former cycling champion Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting their first child together, People magazine reported Wednesday.
"Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful," he told the celebrity magazine. "We are very much looking...
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 Federal appeals court judge Alex Kozinski, 57, recused himself from a closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles, three days after he acknowledged posting sexually explicit photos and videos on his personal Web site. “I will recuse myself from further participation in the case and will ask the chief judge of the district court to...
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 A federal appeals court judge had posted
sexual material on his Web site while he was preparing to preside over an
obscenity trial in Los Angeles
and then he blocked public access to the site after being interviewed about it Tuesday
evening.
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the US Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, acknowledged...
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 Arizona
Sen. Jake Flake died Sunday at age 72 after suffering a massive heart attack at
his home near Snowflake. He was a state legislator since 1997.
“Jake Flake was a leader of great strength and wisdom, who worked with
passion on behalf of the people of Arizona,”
Gov. Janet Napolitano remembered. “Our hearts and prayers are...
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 Canada
made a wrong move by voting against an epoch-making United Nations declaration
on aboriginal rights, thus ruining its reputation as champion of human rights.
The declaration which has been under the telescope for more than a decade
sets out global human rights standards for indigenous populations, who face
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 Nintendo Wii has shattered the record for the fastest selling home console in the UK, beating the former champion PlayStation 2 by 12 weeks.It took Nintendo Wii just 38 weeks since its debut on the British market to reach the psychological barrier of 1 million consoles sold, according to research firm Chart Track. By comparison,...
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 The remarkable American surfer, the 86-year Dorian Paskowitz
has high expectations in bringing Gaza strip to a more peaceful level. “God will surf with the devil, if the waves are good,” is the credo
that brought the retired Jewish physician to his decision.
What determined him was an article published
by the Los Angeles Times...
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 Carlos Zambrano and the Cubs, who spent his entire 10-season professional career with Chicago, reached an agreement and signed a five-year deal, a contract that also includes a sixth season option.The financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. During spring training he signed a one-year, $12.4 million deal and could have...
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Pamela Jelimo of Kenya won't be able to seek another million-dollar jackpot as the 800 metres is not among the disciplines confirmed on Thursday for the elite Golden League athletics series in 2009.
The ruling body IAAF said in a statement that Golden league disciplines next year are the men's 100 metres, 400m, 3,000m/5,000m, 110m...
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Jamaican supersprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva are among the six finalists for the World Athlete of the Year award.
The governing body IAAF said in a statement on Monday that the Bolt, who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the Beijing Olympics in world record times, double long-distance gold medallist...
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The IAAF, the governing body of world athletics, has imposed two-year doping bans on eight Russian athletes for testing positive a varied of substances, including the banned blood-booster EPO.
It emerged Thursday that the athletes are mostly from the sport of walking and include Vladimir Kanaykin, the 20-kilometre walk world record...
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The 2008 Formula One season reaches its thrilling conclusion with the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos this weekend when Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes and Ferrari's Felipe Massa battle it out for the drivers' world championship crown.
Hamilton needs just a fifth place finish to ensure he goes into the record books as the...
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The north Estonian town of Rakvere is an unlikely venue for a world championship of any sort, let alone the exotic rituals of Japanese Sumo wrestling.
Yet thanks to the feats of a local boy made good, Rakvere (population 17,000) will host the 16th Sumo world championships on Saturday and Sunday.
Around 400 competitors from 32...
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American swimmers scored a hat-trick of victories and set three world records at the Beijing Olympics on Friday as superstar Michael Phelps took his tally of gold medals to six.
Germany's Britta Steffen broke the US domination with a remarkable comeback in the women's 100 metres freestyle to give her country its first Olympic swimming...
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Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland and American Kristin Armstrong added Olympic road racing time trial gold medals to world titles won earlier in their cycling career on Wednesday.
The two-time reigning world champion Cancellara underlined his supremacy in the race against the clock with a big win on the hilly 47.5-kilometres between...
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Guilia Quintavalle secured Italy's first judo medal of the Olympic Games Monday when she took gold in the final of the women's 57-kilogram category event Monday at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Quintavalle defeated Deborah Gravenstijn of the Netherlands, who won bronze four years ago in Athens, by yuko in...
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Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying for
Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of McLaren-Mercedes team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen as he seeks his third successive Formula One victory.
The 23-year-old Briton set a best time of 1 minute 20.899 seconds,
0.242 seconds ahead of Finland's Kovalainen to capture his fourth pole
position of the...
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Reigning world and Olympic
champion Jeremy Wariner was upset by LaShawn Merritt Thursday in the
final of the 400-metre of the US Olympic track and field trials in
Eugene, Oregon.
Merritt finished in 44 seconds while a few strides behind Warnier
finished in 44.20 seconds. Merritt also beat Wariner at a June 1 Golden
League race in...
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Lewis Hamilton's victory at
a rain- soaked Silverstone has set up an even tighter battle for the
Formula One drivers' championship as it goes into the second half of
the season.
Britain's Hamilton joins Ferrari drivers Kimi Raikkonen of Finland
and Felipe Massa of Brazil on 48 points with nine of the 18 races
remaining following...
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Australia's bratty world-champion cricket team is learning that winning is not everything.
After not giving visitors India a sporting chance of evening the
score after two games and allowing the four-match series to continue in
a competitive manner, the team has fallen foul of its own fans.
Many sympathize with the Indians in...
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 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has formally stripped the former world champion sprinter Marion Jones of her five medals that she won at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 after she admitted taking steroids before the Olympics.The decision of the IOC was announced on Wednesday by the committee President, Jacques Rogge, after...
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 For his first ski World Cup victory, combined world champion Swiss Daniel Albrecht won the super- combined on Thursday, on the Birds of Prey downhill course at Beaver Creek.Having a combined time of 2 minutes and 00.26 seconds, Albrecht defeated his main rival, French Jean- Baptiste Grange, who trailed by 0.67 seconds as he received...
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 "Crush" Adams Dead at 44, Wrestling Mortality IncreasesBrian "Crush" Adams was found out cold at his residence in Tampa, Fla. Police still wait the autopsy results, which could take up to a week, before proceeding with their investigation to conclude what could have killed him as they didn’t find any visible signs of...
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David Beckham made a quiet debut for AC Milan as the Italians ran out winners on penalties in a friendly against German Bundesliga side SV Hamburg in Dubai on Tuesday.
Beckham, wearing the number 32 shirt, played the first 45 minutes on the right side of midfield in the Dubai Football Challenge.
Milan won 4-3 on penalties after the...
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 The USA Today Preseason Coaches' Poll for the 2007 season was released on Friday. The USC Trojans are No. 1 with 45 of the 60 possible first place votes. LSU is at No. 2 with four first place votes. Next is the defending national champion Florida Gators who are third, but also hold nine first place votes. The football rankings are...
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When the Utah Jazz visited the red-hot Boston Celtics, they were concerned with Boston's "Big Three." Instead, they were victimized by "The Other One."
Rajon Rondo had a career-high 25 points, nine rebounds and eight assists Monday night as the Celtics won their 15th-straight game, a 100-91 victory over the...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph at the Beijing Games.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win a slow-paced race a week after she dominated the 10,000m gold with the second best time in event...
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Germany looked strong Friday at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, as they took two of the first four gold medals on offer for the day.
They won the women's kayak four (K4) 500m and the kayak two (K2) 1,000m, while Briton Tim Brabants won the kayak single (K1) over 1,000m and Attila Sandor Vajda from Hungary took gold in the...
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It's probably just as well that defending light welterweight champion Manus Boonjumnong intends turning professional after the Olympic Games because the talented Thai boxer certainly seems to need a bigger stage.
Manus was already assured of becoming the first Thai athlete in history to win medals at consecutive Games before his...
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Argentina on Tuesday won their first-ever Olympic cycling medal when they won men's madison race at the Beijing Olympics ahead of Spain, while Britain's Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton took the sprint titles.
In the madison race, Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez beat Joan Llaneras and Antonio Tauler into second place...
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The glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to China's face when the Russian competed in the Olympic pole vault just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night in which Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase domination from world champion Brimin...
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Coach Marcello Lippi is back in the fray after a two-year rest to begin a second stint at the helm of world champions Italy.
He rejoins the national team, which he steered to a fourth World Cup in 2006, for a friendly with Austria on Wednesday in the French seaside town of Nice.
A month and a half after being called back to replace...
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Roger Federer will begin
resuscitating his summer after last week's Canadian crash out, as the
opening day of the Cincinnati Masters was hit by a pair of late injury
defections on Monday. The Swiss superstar learned the name of
his opening opponent in Tuesday's second round, as US player Robby
Ginepri overcame Swedish veteran...
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the 132nd day of 2008 with 234 to follow. This is Mother's Day. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, in 1854;...
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 American tourist Gertrude Zint, 90 this year, is unimpressed with the scenic splendour of Kakadu and the other national parks that stud Australia's far north.
"Gorges - they are quarries filled with water. Gorges, gorges, gorges!" she rants. "You drive for hours in a coach and see a gorge - sand and water. I've seen it...
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 Liverpool’s chances of advancing in the Champion League got back on the track thanks to the stunning 8-0 victory against Turkish club Besiktas in European soccer's elite tournament.English striker Peter Crouch scored the first goal and last goal also, heading the Reds to brake the record for the highest-ever Champions League victory,...
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 The favorite teams of the Copa America continue to struggle as Brazil lost 2-0 to a Mexico team who played without some of its best regular starters.Although playing without its all-time scoring leader Jared Borgetti, injured in the final of the Gold Cup against the U.S., Mexico played at a high tempo from the first whistle and it played...
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 Peru began their Copa America soccer tournament journey with an impressive 3-0 win over 14-time champion Uruguay Tuesday night on goals by Miguel Villalta, Juan Carlos Marino and Paolo Guerrero.Although missing one of their top players, Internzionale Milano’s forward Alvaro Recoba, due to a muscle problem, Uruguay began stronger but...
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 Since the first Concacaf Gold Cup tournament was staged in 1991 the prestige and the importance of this competition grew constantly amongst the teams from the North and Central America and the Caribbean. The most wanted finalists of the Gold Cup are undoubtedly United States, the defending champions, and Mexico.Will that highly...
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Portimao, Portugal - Fernando Alonso has not yet made his debut at the wheel of the new Renault R29, but he already predicted Monday that the upcoming Formula 1 season is likely to be very exciting.
"This championship should be the most open and the hardest-fought of all we have had so far," the Spaniard said in Portimao, in...
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Local hero Felipe Massa had a perfect start into the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix weekend when he beat world championship rival Lewis Hamilton for first place in the opening practice session on Friday.
Massa clocked 1 minute 12.305 seconds in his Ferrari for the 4.309-kilometres lap on the Sao Paulo course.
The Briton Hamilton...
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Lewis Hamilton is just one step away from being crowned Formula One's youngest ever world drivers' champion in only his second season in the sport.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver goes goes into Sunday's final race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, holding a seven- point lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa and needs just...
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Ferrari's Felipe Massa believes all the pressure is on title rival Lewis Hamilton ahead of the final Formula One race of the season, Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver Hamilton holds a seven-point lead over Massa following his victory in Shanghai on October 19 and will be crowned the youngest F1...
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Williams will retain Germany's Nico Rosberg and Japan's Kazuki Nakajima as drivers for the 2009 season, the Formula One team said Thursday.
The decision ends speculation over the future of Rosberg who had been linked with other teams.
Meanwhile the German Nico Hulkenberg, who currently leads the Formula 3 series, is to be retained...
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Sebastian Vettel delighted in his historic achievement and Lewis Hamilton could be at least partly happy about his ride in the Monza rain.
"A star is born in the Monza rain," said Italy's Unita daily on Monday after Vettel became the youngest Formula One race winner at age 21, in a Ferrari-powered Toro Rosso on...
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Although Lewis Hamilton is still hoping that an appeal will reinstate him as the winner of the Belgium Grand Prix, he is looking forward to gaining revenge in Ferrari's backyard by winning Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver won last Sunday's race at Spa but was later handed a 25-second penalty which demoted him...
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The decision to strip Lewis Hamilton of his victory at the Belgian Grand Prix has been greeted by a mixture of bemusement and cynicism in Britain.
Meanwhile one Italian media report said the race stewards decision to penalise the McLaren-Mercedes driver, thus gifting the race to Ferrari's Felipe Massa, was justified.
Italian media...
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 Ferrari managed to win its third consecutive Formula One title, as Kimi Raikkonen won the Spanish Grand Pix on Sunday at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.Raikkonen, who is also the defending world champion, crossed the finish line 3.228 seconds ahead of his teammate, Felipe Massa, and grabbed his career 17th victory and the second...
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 Formula One driver Fernando Alonso confirmed on his website Monday that
he has agreed a move to his former team Renault where he made his F1
debut in 2001 and became the sport's youngest world champion when
winning the first of his two titles in 2005.
"This is the team where I grew up as a driver in F1. Now it is time
for us...
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 After his one- off appearances for Team Force India, the well- known driver Ralf Schumacher hinted on Thursday that he might put an end to his Formula One career.The German driver left the Toyota team at the end of the season and is since then without a team. But he had a hard day at Jerez when he was testing for Team Force...
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 The British driver of McLaren-Mercedes missed the chance to win
the title in the Formula One driver's championship after he failed to finish
the race in the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.
The winner was Ferrari’s driver Kimi Raikkonen, who had a
time of 1 hour 37 minutes and 58.395 seconds.
Defending world champion Fernando...
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 The World Rally champion from
1995 Colin McRae has just been announced of having died in a helicopter crash.
The crash that has taken the 39-year-old legendary car pilot’s life has taken
place yesterday, the 15th of September; the Squirrel helicopter that
Colin McRae has been driving has crashed and burst into flames near the...
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 Five days after letting a potential victory at Watkins Glen slip through his fingers, Jeff Gordon, the four-time Nextel Cup champion, won his series-leading sixth pole of the season after he waited for all the other drivers of the 3M Performance 400 at the Michigan International Speedway to make their qualifying runs."Welcome back...
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 Juan Pablo Montoya's NASCAR run for the rookie of the year award has been a success so far.The Columbian emerged victorious on the road from the Busch Series in Mexico City. He also won the Nextel Cup race on the road course at Infineon, finished second at the Brickyard 400, fifth at Atlanta and eighth at Texas.So far, he recorded a...
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 Australia’s Casey Stoner recorded his sixth victory in 11 races Sunday, wining the U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. The podium was completed by fellow countryman Chris Vermeulen and Marco Melandri from Italy, who managed to finish in the top 3 despite suffering from a dislocated right ankle caused by a crash in Saturday's...
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 Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen eased past home favorite Lewis Hamilton and world champion Fernando Alonso to win Britain Grand Prix and his second consecutive race, closing the gap between Ferrari and McLaren.The 27-year-old Finn seemed to have total control over the race and his team’s strategy again helped him to quench the top spot, leaving...
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 Bill France Jr., the son of NASCAR founder William France, Sr. died on Monday in Daytona Beach, Florida at the age of 74.He died at his Daytona Beach, Fla., home NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston stated.France’s health was poor over the last ten years especially after he was diagnosed with cancer in 1999.Officials at Dover International...
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Melbourne - The title defence of Novak Djokovic melted in 36 Celsius heat while Roger Federer came out in the evening cool to claim a runaway win at the Australian Open on Tuesday.
Struggling Serb Djokovic quit his quarter-final to present a 6-7, (3-7), 6-4, 6-2, 2-1 victory to Andy Roddick.
Federer never broke stride as he crushed...
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Melbourne - The Australian Open was tarnished Friday by a third straight year of minor fan violence, with a woman injured and around 30 people ejected from the grounds, police reported.
Longstanding Balkan tensions which have scarred previous editions boiled over on a hot day, with rival Serbian and Bosnian fans hurling garden chairs...
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Melbourne, (dpa) - Lindsay Davenport will keep her tennis career alive at age 32 after entering the 2009 Australian Open, organisers announced on Thursday,
The Californian had been on the fence about her future in recent months, last playing at the US Open and losing early.
But after pondering her situation with her husband over...
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Venus Williams' title at the WTA Championships on Sunday marked the end of a turbulent year in women's tennis which saw six changes at the number one position after Justine Henin's retirement.
The Belgian Henin was tipped to dominate 2008 after an amazing unbeaten second half of 2007, but her win streak came to an end at the...
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German Philipp Kohlschreiber dealt a likely fatal blow to the season-ending hopes of Spain's David Ferrer as he defeated the Spaniard 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday in the second round of the Paris Masters.
Ferrer, seeded fifth, will be unable to make the trip to Shanghai as a direct qualifier next week as his progress was halted while...
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Three-time Paris Masters champion Marat Safin floated the possibility of retirement after a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) first- round disappointment on Monday at the hands of Juan Monaco
But the 28-year-old Russian's immediate hope of just seeing the back of another so-so ATP season may have been stronger than any desire to actually chuck in his...
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Rafael Nadal's run to the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters at the weekend ensures the Spaniard will remain top of the ATP tennis rankings until the end of 2008.
The French Open and Wimbledon champion Nadal has 7,100 points in the new rankings issued Monday, to sit ahead of former number one Roger Federer of Switzerland (5,805) and...
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Roger Federer will end his short break from tennis after three weeks after confirming after he will be a starter in the Madrid Masters which begins Sunday.
The Swiss, who has spent the past days in Dubai, confirmed through his management that he would show up in the Spanish capital.
His manager had made a preliminary hotel booking...
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Officials took cover indoors as rain from an approaching typhoon dampened the Japan Open for a second day on Tuesday, with teenaged tennis hero Kei Nishikori securing an opening win under the roof.
The 18-year-old, who claimed his nation's first ATP title in 16 years when he won Delray Beach in February, took two hours to overcome...
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Rafael Nadal of Spain maintains top spot ahead of former number one Roger Federer in an unchanged men's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the ATP.
French Open and Wimbledon champion Nadal continues to lead the way on 7,000 points, with US Open winner Federer on 5,930 and Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic of Serbia third on...
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Top seed Novak Djokovic crushed Germany's Simon Stadler 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday in a runaway start as top seed at the Thailand Open.
The Serbian world number three champion wasted little time in revving up his game, taking the first set in just 22 minutes over the world number 141.
Djokovic was broken in the second game of the second...
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Rafael Nadal of Spain maintains top spot ahead of former number one Roger Federer in an unchanged men's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the ATP.
French Open and Wimbledon champion Nadal continues to lead the way on 7,000 points, with US Open winner Federer on 5,930 and Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic of Serbia third on 4,855...
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US Open champion Serena Williams tops the latest women's tennis rankings issued on Monday by the WTA while Russia's Dinara Safina moves up two places to third.
Williams has 4,091 points and is followed by Serbia's Jelena Jankovic on 3,885 and Safina on 3,747. Former number one Ana Ivanovic of Serbia drops one spot to fourth with...
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Rafael Nadal struck the first blow for Spain, recovering after losing the opening set to impose a 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 defeat on Sam Querrey Friday to start the Davis Cup semi-final against the US.
The world number one spoiled the debut of Californian, Querrey, whom he beat less than a month ago in the US Open fourth round,...
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Erratic Russian Marat Safin won't bother with Davis Cup in Argentine this weekend, saving himself a journey half round the world to play in Bangkok the week following.
The former number one player said in a statement on his website that he would not take to the court for Russia in the World Group semi-final against Argentina led by...
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Roger Federer continues to top an unchanged men's top 10 ATP tennis rankings issued Monday with Rafael Nadal the Swiss player's nearest challenger.Federer leads the way with 6,600 points followed by Wimbledon champion Nadal on 5,830 with Serbia's Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic a distant third on 4,945 points.ATP top 10 as of July...
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Ana Ivanovic of Serbia continues to head an women's tennis rankings issued Monday by the WTA.
The French Open champion Ivanovic has 3,828 points followed by
compatriot Jelena Jankovic on 3,685 and Russia's Maria Sharapova on
3,626 points. WTA top 10 as of July 14 (previous ranking in
parenthesis): 1. (1) Ana Ivanovic, Serbia,...
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Ana Ivanovic of Serbia continues to head the women's tennis rankings issued Monday by the WTA.
The French Open champion Ivanovic has 3,828 points with compatriot
Jelena Jankovic moving up one place to second on 3,685 points.
Russia's Maria Sharapova drops to third on 3,626 points while
newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Venus...
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 Russian star tennis player Maria Sharapova won over the No. 5 seed and defending champion Daniela Hantuchova 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 on Wednesday, which has extended her unbeaten 2008 record to 18-0 and sent her directly into the women semifinals of the 2.1 million dollars Pacific Life Open.Australian Open champion Sharapova fired six aces in the...
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 Former best
tennis player in the world, Monica Seles announced her official retirement from
professional tennis yesterday.
Seles had
not participated in tennis competitions for five years because of an unlucky
succession of foot injuries, but she had not actually retired until now.
“Tennis has been and will always...
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 Serbia’s wonder boy Novak Djokovic managed to beat the odds and won his first Grand Slam title, the Australian Open.The 20-year-old Djokovic defeated unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after three nerve-wracking hours. The Frenchman outclassed top-ranked players like Rafael Nadal, Richard Gasquet, Andy Murray and Mikhail Youzhny on his way to...
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 Maria Sharapova broke early in each set, turning in a sterling
performance to end the nearly seven-month win streak of Justine Henin
6-4, 6-0 for a place in the semi-finals of the Australian Open on
Tuesday.
The Russian fifth seed, two times a Grand Slam champion, handed
world number one Henin her first loss since Wimbledon. The...
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 Seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin and last year's finalist
Maria Sharapova met minimal resistance on Sunday as the pair bolted
into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.
Top seed Henin, unbeaten since Wimbledon last summer, crushed Hsieh
Su-wei of Taiwan 6-2, 6-2. Fifth seed Sharapova, who lost the 2007
final to...
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 Roger Federer underwent involuntary shock therapy at the hands of
dedicated Serb spoiler Janko Tipsarevic before finally emerging with a
6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-1), 5-7, 6-1, 10-8 win on Saturday at the Australian
Open.
Ill with stomach virus the week before the start, the world number
one came to the court this week without any...
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 Philipp Kohlschreiber survived a barrage of 42 aces with 104 winners as
he stunned sixth seed Andy Roddick in the third round of the Australian
Open in the early hours of Saturday, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (11-9), 6-7 (3-7),
8-6.
The German 29th seed clinched victory after 3 hours 53 minutes of
late-night play in the Rod Laver Arena when...
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 Justine Henin tackled the fear factor and Jelena Jankovic played
through fatigue Friday as seeds struggled into the fourth round of the
Australian Open.
Top seed Henin stretched her current winning streak to 32
matches but admitted that she plays in fear that the record run might
be broken.
She staved off that immediate...
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 The United States team won the fifth title at the Hopman Cup on Friday, as it defeated the Serbian team, which was exhausted after struggling towards the final while suffering injuries.Serena Williams and Mardy Fish ended a week of victories with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 doubles victory over Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic, concluding...
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 The Hopman Cup took off on Saturday with the US team’s 2-0 victory over India, despite the absence of Serena WilliamsWilliams, the defending Australian Open winner and a champion at the eight-nation mixed team event in 2003 with partner James Blake, announced that she would not be able to arrive at the place until as soon as Sunday, due...
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 As the eight-nation Hopman Cup will begin on Saturday, the US team is due to start off the wrong foot since Serene Williams confirmed on Wednesday that she will not be able to attend to the first day of competition due to an unspecified illness.Williams, who is the seventh-ranked American, has been suffering of fitness problems in the...
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 As a result of her impressive return to the game after giving birth last summer, Linsday Davenport was named in the 2008 US Fed Cup team.The squad will play in the quarter- finals against Germany in February in La Jolla, California, near San Diego. This will be the first time Davenport will play on the United States’ territory since the...
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 Andy Roddick expects a wave of support from boisterous American fans as
he opens the US-Russia Davis Cup final on Friday against surprise
starter Dmitry Tursunov.
Roddick will get the chance to put the hosts into the lead after
the draw made Thursday and the American expects a sellout crowd to
immediately become a factor in the...
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 Justine Henin confidently defeated the second Williams sister, Venus, 7-6, 6-4. Venus Williams looked shaky, dizzy, but still put up a great game. "I was definitely having some problems. But she played well. By the time I got on the court, I was shaky," Williams said. Apparently, there was no real medical problem."I didn't...
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 Fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced into the third round of the U.S. Open with a struggling 6-3 4-6 6-0 victory over Camille Pin at Flushing Meadows. The Russian wasn’t in her best shape as she committed 34 unforced errors, while her opponent gave away only nine.The surprise women's singles champion at Flushing Meadows in 2004 took...
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 World’s top tennis players, Swiss Roger Federer and Belgian Justine Henin were named as the top seeds for the U.S. Open on Monday. The tournament is set to begin in New York next week.Federer, who just won his 50th career title at the Cincinnati Open, is looking forward to winning his fourth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows, while...
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 Maria Sharapova got past a struggling first set won after tiebreak (7-5) against Greece’s Eleni Daniilidou to make her way to the third round of the East West Bank Classic on Wednesday.After a remarkable display of tennis skills in the first set Daniilidou capitulated in the second and retired at the score of 3-1 due to breathing...
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 Anna Chakvetadze's attempt to record her 13th straight victory on American soil which would grant her a place in the San Diego Classic final was ended by fellow countrywoman and top seed Maria Sharapova, who won 6-3 6-2 the semifinal on Saturday.The defending champion will face Swiss 11th seed Patty Schnyder, who knocked out ninth seed...
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 Anna Chakvetadze provided Venus Williams’ first loss at San Diego Classic since 1999 on Friday to set up an all-Russian semi-final with fellow-countrywoman Maria Sharapova, who destroyed India's Sania Mirza 6-2 6-1.The Russian, who is seeking her third title in just as many weeks, beat the Wimbledon champion 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3),...
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 Roger Federer proved Sunday once more why he is number one in the world, breaking Rafael Nadal’s tremendous will in five sets 7-6 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-2 and lifting the Wimbledon trophy for the fifth time.After a long and tiresome week, Federer and Nadal faced each other on the London grass in a final that would give their fans spectacular...
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 Former Wimbledon champion Roger Federer has beaten French 12th seed Richard Gasquet 7-5 6-3 6-4 to secure his place in the final, where he will meat his old arch-rival Rafael Nadal.The Spaniard, who lost to Federer last year, secured his place in the final act of the competition by defeating the number four Novak Djokovic retired while...
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 Venus Williams advanced to the semi finals after a much disputed match against Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova. The triple champion won in two sets 6-3, 6-4 on the famed Centre Court and will meet Ana Ivanovic on Friday. "I was able to stay tough against a great opponent," said Williams in the press conference. "I felt so...
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 Justine Henin was the one that survived the major clash with Serena Williams to reach the semi-finals. The American fought magnificently despite her calf injury she dramatically injured against Daniela Hantuchova on Monday.Henin won the only break point of the first set and continued with a clinical serve to close it 6-4. Williams came...
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 Probably the most frustrating of the weather-plagued match-ups at Wimbledon finally concluded as last year’s finalist Rafael Nadal needed five match points today to add to the one he held on Monday before he could win over Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 4-6, 7-5.The second-seeded Spaniard has survived five sets, seven rain delays...
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 Maria Sharapova managed to race against the rain and beat Japan’s number one Ai Sugiyama after two swift sets 6-3 6-3, clinching a spot in the fourth round at Wimbledon.The 31-year-old veteran knew her only chance is to finish the game in record time, before fatigue could put a grip on her game. But so did Sharapova, as both players...
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 Andy Roddick won his fourth Queen's Club trophy in five years with a dramatic 4-6 7-6 7-6 win over Nicolas Mahut on Sunday.The American, who also won the Wimbledon warm-up tournament from 2003-05, is the fourth player to win four titles at Queen's Club matching the achievements of Lleyton Hewitt, Boris Becker and John McEnroe."I...
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 This year’s final of the French Open will be disputed by the defending champion Justine Henin and a sparkling Ana Ivanovic, two players that impressed with their classy games and outstanding performances.Ana Ivanovic prove to have unknown resources as she breezed past second seed Maria Sharapova with a magnificent display of force and...
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 United States men's tennis sunk to a new low on Wednesday. For the first time in 40 years no male tennis player of the U.S. reached the second round of the French Open.The worst American performance at the Roland Garros in at least 30 years began at the hands of Roger Federer, who started the road to his fourth consecutive major title by...
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 World’s No.1 Roger Federer will launch next week his ninth attempt to win the French Open, the only Grand Slam tournament he hasn't won. The Swiss will meet the little-known American Michael Russell in the first round."The French Open is my No. 1 priority," the eight-time Grand Slam winner stated.Federer was drawn in the same...
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Los Angeles - At some point during the 58th NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Kobe Bryant will have one of his current Los Angeles Lakers teammates alongside him in Spanish star Pau Gasol.
He will also have one of his former Lakers teammates alongside him in Shaquille O'Neal.
Bryant and O'Neal, the argumentative duo which led the Lakers...
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Louis Williams poured in 16 of his game-high 27 points in the final quarter, rallying the Philadelphia 76ers past the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics, 98-92 on Wednesday night, in the pre-season opener for both clubs.
The Sixers trailed 92-89 with just under two minutes remaining before Williams led the late charge, that wiped...
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Rodney Stuckey scored 23 points, Jason Maxiell added 13 points, including the first four of overtime, and the Detroit Pistons edged the host Miami Heat, 95-91 on Sunday night as the NBA opened up its pre-season schedule.
The league officially tips off the regular season on October 28, when the defending champion Boston Celtics meet...
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 Kobe Bryant scored a game high 39 points, three times more than any other of his teammates, for the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, leading his team to the National Basketball Association finals for the first time since 2004 with a 100-92 victory over the defending champion San Antonio Spurs.The Lakers succeeded to claim the...
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 Manu Ginobli scored 28 points on 10 of 13 shots from the field on Thursday night, leading the San Antonio Spurs to their 11th straight win, over the Indiana Pacers at the AT&T Center.The defending champion Spurs also managed to win their 15th game out of the 16 they played this season, as Tony Parker added 19 points and Matt Bonner...
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 Dwight Howard was the man of the night on Saturday, as he won the dunk contest at the NBA all-star festivities in New Orleans.The Orlando Magic center used his 6-foot-11 inch, 265-pound frame in order to stun all the onlookers, while he managed to total a perfect 100 for his two first round dunks.After he jumped to the hoop in a Superman...
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 Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming clearly weren't themselves. Neither were the San Antonio Spurs.
McGrady scored nine points in his return and the Houston Rockets
survived uncharacteristically poor free-throw shooting from Yao for an
83-81 home victory over San Antonio on Saturday night.
Yao had 21 points and 14 rebounds for the...
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 Although LeBron James wasn't at full strength, his performance was just
enough to allow the Cleveland Cavaliers to wipe away some bitter
memories of last June.
James shrugged off an ankle sprain with 27 points, including the
game-winning layup with 33.6 seconds remaining, as the visiting
Cavaliers slipped past the defending...
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 When the Cleveland Cavaliers need him, LeBron James is ready to deliver.
"King James" scored 25 of his season-high 51 points in the final
quarter and overtime, carrying the Cavaliers to a 132-124 road victory
over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night.
James - the league's top scorer at 29.8 per game - made...
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 LeBron James went into overdrive when the game went into overtime.
James scored 12 of his 31 points in both extra sessions, to go
along with a career-high 19 rebounds and eight assists, carrying the
Cleveland Cavaliers past the pesky Charlotte Bobcats, 113-106 on Friday
night.
"That's my time, that's when my team looks for...
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 The Detroit Pistons ended their two- game losing streak as they nailed a great game against the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs for a 90-80 road victory on Thursday evening.Rasheed Wallace finished the game with 23 points and 15 rebounds, while Tayshaun Prince scored 17 points and Chauncey Billups finished with 13 for the...
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 Two things have been constant three months into the NBA season - the
Boston Celtics own the league's best record - and their superstar Kevin
Garnett remains tops in the All-Star balloting.
Garnett, who has guided the Celtics to a sparkling 29-4 mark, leads
all players with 1,756,251 votes as the fourth fan-balloting to select
the...
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 The Chicago Bulls lost their fourth game in the last five, as Tony Parker leaded San Antonio Spurs to the 94-79 victory on Wednesday night.Parker managed to score 28 points and made 12-of-19 field goals in 33 minutes. "Lately, I have been just trying to create offence for myself and making the most out of opportunities that present...
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 With no answers on how to turn around their fortunes, the struggling
Chicago Bulls on Monday fired head coach Scott Skiles, following a
disappointing 9-16 start.
"This was a difficult decision to make but one that was necessary
at this time," Bulls general manager John Paxson said in a statement,
"Scott helped us in...
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 Manu Ginobili replaced All-Star Tim Duncan in order to help San Antonio Spurs to edge the Dallas Mavericks 97-95, as they are undefeated at home until now.As Duncan suffered a bruised right knee and ankle sprain on Sunday in the game against Portland, Ginobili had his first start of the season and scored a season-high 37 points, despite...
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 Derek Fisher reportedly agreed on a three-year contract with Los Angeles Lakers that will earn him $14 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.The almost 33-year-old guard was released from his contract signed with Utah Jazz in order that he could seek the proper medical care for Tatum, his 11-month-old daughter, who’s fighting eye...
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 After expressing reservation at first about play on the U.S. senior men's basketball team, Detroit Pistons’ small forward Tayshaun Prince joined seven other players in adding his name to USA Basketball's roster for the Beijing Olympics in 2008."It's a great feeling to be recognized for what I bring to the game of basketball, and how...
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 Motorola, the second largest phones manufacturer in the world after Nokia, has recently unveiled the successors of its popular RAZR series of cellphones, simply gathered under the umbrella of RAZR 2.The new phones inherit the “champion genes” of their praised predecessor, but also bear the touch of the future, boasting with not one, but...
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 Kate Hudson travelled accompanied by her
rumoured boyfriend Lance Armstrong to Canada over the weekend to help
raise over $1 million dollars for cancer research on a fund-raising bike ride,
People.com reported.
The actress and the cyclist champion were
spotted getting out of a minivan on Friday outside Toronto’s Hazelton’s Hotel,...
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 The MVP quarterback for the Super Bowl champion Giants Eli
Manning married college sweetheart Abby Mc Grew during an intimate ceremony at
a resort on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
The New York Daily News reported that after the wedding
ceremony Eli Manning and his bride kicked off their honeymoon; they began the first day of the rest of...
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 It makes no difference if you’re a regular person or you have been called a “champion” of the World Wrestling Federation, when your wife files for divorce and you learn about it from a journalist, you find no strength to fight the surprise.This is the case of Hulk Hogan, on his real name Terry Bollea who was taken by surprise by a St....
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 One of the famous twin sisters, Mary-Kate Olsen entered the emergency
room of a New York
hospital on Monday.
The 21-year actress, who has just finalized a guest stint on
“Weeds” was diagnosed with a kidney infection and remained in hospital.
According to her rep, she is feeling fine resting and she is expected to make a
full...
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 Singer Sheryl Crow has become a mommy for the first time by adopting a baby boy she named Wyatt Steven.
The 45-year-old artist made the grand announcement via her official Web site Friday. She wrote: “Hey Everybody, I am so excited to share with you guys that I've adopted a little boy ..he was born 2 weeks ago. His name is Wyatt...
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 Nine-time Grammy-winner singer Sheryl Crow adopted a 2-week-old baby boy, she said Friday through her web site. "His name is Wyatt (after my dad) Steven (after my little brother and Scooter) and we are enjoying some very private family time," she wrote. Crow's publicist said the child was born in the United States."I am so...
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It's probably just as well that defending light welterweight champion Manus Boonjumnong intends turning professional after the Olympic Games because the talented Thai boxer certainly seems to need a bigger stage.
Manus was already assured of becoming the first Thai athlete in history to win medals at consecutive Games before his...
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 Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to one day
in jail and three years' probation Monday for cocaine possession and
driving under the influence of alcohol.
Tyson, 41, pleaded guilty in September to a single felony count of
cocaine possession and a misdemeanor DUI count. He had faced more than
four years in...
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 The WBO Heavyweight Champion remains unchanged, after the
Saturday confrontation between Sultan Ibragimov and Evander "The Real
Deal" Holyfield, evidently the former being the one to win.
Ibragimov was declared unanimously champion after 12 rounds,
with an eloquent 22-0-1. Holyfield’s approach was more aggressive in the...
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 Bernard Hopkins successfully defended his light-heavyweight world champion title wining by a unanimous decision over Winky Wright on Saturday. He protected his Middleweight title 20 times, more than any middleweight in history.Judge Glenn Hamada scored 116-112 for Hopkins with Glenn Trowbridge and Dave Moretti agreeing on a 117-111 score...
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 Joachim Alcine (29-0) seized the WBA super welterweight beating Travis Simms with a unanimous decision in a foul-filled fight Saturday night.This was Simms (25-1) first title defense and Alcine’s first title bout. Judge Tom Kaczmarek scored it 114-111, Glen Feldman 115-110, and George DeGabriel 116-109 for the title contender. "I...
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 Ricky Hatton felt just like home in Las Vegas with a friendly crowd full of his countryman, who came to see him take on Jose Lulis Castillo – the biggest fight for Hatton since he beat Australian Kostya Tszyu two years ago.The Englishman didn’t let his fans down and with a left hook to the body he knocked Castillo out in the fourth round...
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 Miguel Cotto retained his World Boxing Association welterweight title after defeating the former undisputed world champion Zab Judah through a technical knockout in the 11th-round in front of a crowd of more than 20,000 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.The 26-year-old unbdefeated Puerto Rican finished off his contender at 49 seconds...
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 American Shannon Briggs defended his World Boxing Organisation heavyweight title for the first time in last night’s fight against the Russian challenger Sultan Ibragimov.Ibragimov, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics, easily outpointed Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs throughout the 12 rounds despite the American’s weight...
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 In front of 16,200 fans at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr wanted to give Oscar De La Hoya a beating. However, on Saturday, he had to settle for just getting a win after a 12 round split decision.Two of the three scorecards, 116-112 and 115-113, showed Mayweather as the winner with De La Hoya...
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