Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell says he can catch countryman and world’s fastest man Usian Bolt when the two face off next year.
Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping prosecutor on Monday.
Serbian world No 3 Novak Djokovic announced he has signed a clothing deal with Sergio Tacchini that will start in January, ending a long association with Adidas.
German coaches and officials on Saturday demanded stiff sentences for members of a ring suspected of having fixed or tried to rig at least 200 matches across Europe, including three in the Champions League.
Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse, who both fell foul of anti-doping regulations, appealed against their one-year bans to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday.
Kimi Raikkonen will sit out of F1 next season after failing to secure a move back to McLaren, Finnish media said yesterday.
China has started its build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games by interviewing track and field coaches over the past two days.
When Zheng Jie took up tennis, at the age of 10 with a local youth team in Sichuan province, she had to share one coach with more than 20 children on a solitary court.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona will appear before a FIFA disciplinary committee on Sunday over his foul-mouthed outburst last month, soccer's world governing body said on Tuesday.
Renault held an emergency board meeting in Paris to discuss pulling out of Formula One, on the same day Toyota announced it was also quitting the sport, reports said yesterday.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has issued a formal apology to women's 800m world champion Caster Semenya for its handling of her gender verification tests.
The struggles of Chinese weightlifters in retirement have regularly made the headlines in local media over the past few years.