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/ 2 September 2011
Six cities from Europe, Asia and the Middle East are competing to host the 2020 Olympics, including Rome and Tokyo who have hosted the Games before.
London celebrated the one-year countdown to the Summer Games with the first dive into the new Olympic pool and a presentation of the medals.
After back-to-back quarterfinal losses at the French Open and Wimbledon, Roger Federer is suddenly no longer the Grand Slam certainty he used to be.
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/ 24 October 2009
The head of track and field’s world governing body has called off a visit to South Africa to discuss the results of Caster Semenya’s gender tests.
The prospect of Tiger Woods competing for an Olympic gold medal could come closer to reality on Thursday.
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/ 29 November 2008
Gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball were among five Olympic sports cited by Wada for failing to implement out-of-competition testing programmes.
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/ 13 September 2008
Tennis player Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP on Friday after a year-long investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost.
Roger Federer beat Marat Safin in straight sets on Saturday to move one win away from his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title.
Three-time champion Venus Williams came back from a break down in the last two sets to avoid a major first-round surprise on Tuesday against a Russian teenager playing her first match at Wimbledon. In men’s play, second-seeded Rafael Nadal and former champion Lleyton Hewitt were among the winners.
The Wimbledon seeding committee got this one just right. The top four seeded players have advanced to the women’s semifinals at Wimbledon. It’s only the fifth time in 25 years that the semis have featured the elite four. On Thursday, 2004 champion Sharapova will play Mauresmo, and Clijsters will face Henin-Hardenne in the 20th career match between the Belgian rivals.