Wrestling power Japan, which won four gold medals in London, reacted with dismay on Wednesday after Olympic chiefs said the 2020 Games would not include the sport, depriving the country of a rich source of medals.
Japanese sensation Ryo Ishikawa, having already piled up multiple records on his home circuit, has set his sights on completing a breakthrough victory on the US PGA Tour this season.
Thomas Bjorn, Henrik Stenson and Richard Green, three leading figures on the European Tour, are united in their view that golf is free of doping.
Henrik Stenson is slowly returning to the sort of form that took him to fourth in the world in 2009 and believes he will compete regularly with golf's elite again as long as he can successfully juggle his membership of two tours.
The world's richest soccer clubs Real Madrid and Manchester United meet on Wednesday in a Champions League last 16 first-leg tie described by Jose Mourinho as "the match the world is waiting for". Alex Ferguson takes his United side to the Spanish capital after extending its lead at the top of the Premier League to 12 points with Sunday's 2-0 win at home to Everton.
Rafa Nadal's worst defeat on a claycourt for nine years offered ammunition to the naysayers but the Spaniard says his recovery from knee injury should be judged over time.
Wrestling, an Olympic sport since the first Games in ancient Greece, looks set to be dropped, after the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday voted to remove it from the program for 2020.
China's Dongfeng Motor Corp and Sweden's AB Volvo recently agreed to form a joint venture to produce medium and heavy-duty trucks carrying the Dongfeng nameplate for sale in both domestic and overseas markets.
Chinese automaker FAW Group and its German partner Volkswagen may introduce a new brand for the low-priced market, said a senior executive at FAW.
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