Former world champion Tom Boonen will take part in next month's Dauphine Libere after his Quick Step team lifted the Belgian's ban for failing an out-of-competition drugs test for cocaine.
Jenson Button has promised to put on a show for his growing army of fans at his other home Grand Prix in Britain next month after winning in Monaco at the weekend.
Ericsson 4 moved a step closer to becoming overall champion of the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race when she finished the trans-Atlantic leg 7 ahead of the fleet in Galway, Ireland on Sunday.
Spain will host the 2014 basketball world championship, governing body FIBA said in a statement on their website (www.fiba.com) on Saturday.
Michael Phelps has some serious work to do to get faster if he is going to be as unbeatable at the 2012 London Olympics as he was last year at the Beijing Olympics.
World-record holder and two-time Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol handed Michael Phelps his first defeat in almost a year by winning the 100-meter backstroke at the Charlotte UltraSwim on Saturday.
The Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI) is determined to seize championship in the upcoming Sudirman Cup in Guangzhou of China amid tough rivalries.
The Chinese National Team pockets all five golds at World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, May 5, 2009.
Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao defeated his British rival Ricky Hatton and became the new International Boxing Organization (IBO) light welterweight champion.
The six more athletes were all identified for doping at the Beijing Olympic Games although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not name them or the sports involved.
World record sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica suffered minor injuries on Wednesday when he crashed his BMW sports car on the outskirts of his Caribbean homeland's capital, authorities said.
Chinese table tennis chief Cai Zhenhua has announced the Chinese Table Tennis Association's top priority in 2009 - to make table tennis a more closely-contested game and narrow the gap between the Chinese team and the rest of the world.
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