Brazil beat Puerto Rico 61-60 in men's FIBA Americas Championship gold medal final basketball game in San Juan September 6, 2009.
Olympic champion Tong Wen of China won the women's +78kg gold medal at the judo World Championships here on Sunday after beating Karina Bryant of Britain in the final by ippon.
Asia's contingent of Olympic boxing champions will be confident of adding world titles to their glittering collections when the World Championships get underway in Milan today.
Renault will need luck and a perfect weekend if they are to repeat last year's late season success, double world champion Fernando Alonso said on Thursday.
Sergio Garcia demonstrated the volatility in the new FedExCup playoffs format on Thursday by going from the edge of elimination to becoming a solid contender for the $10 million prize.
Lack of experience cost Kenya medals in events they were tipped to dominate at the world championships, the country's Olympic 800 metres champion Wilfred Bungei said.
Some 1,000 fans sang and danced at the airport Tuesday in support of Caster Semenya as the runner, who is undergoing gender testing after her 800-meter win at the world championships, returned home to South Africa.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt dominated the World Athletics Championships here in the same way he did the Beijing Olympics, winning triple gold and shattering the world records for the 100m and 200m.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton refused to blame McLaren for a pitstop blunder that cost him precious seconds and possibly victory in Sunday's European Grand Prix.
South Korea's Yang Yong-eun, Asia's first male winner of a major golf championship, and five of the world's top 10 golfers will join world No.1 Tiger Woods and defending champion Sergio Garcia at the World Golf Championship (WGC)-HSBC event, guaranteeing the greatest field ever assembled in this continent.
Berlin police arrested six unnamed athletes from Cuba, the United States and the Bahamas following a row outside a nightclub early on Sunday.
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele became the first man to win the 5,000-10,000 metres double at the world championships when he took gold at the shorter distance on Sunday.
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