Tour de France winner Floyd Landis said on Saturday he had not committed any doping offence despite a positive test for excessive amounts of the male sex hormone testosterone.
American Floyd Landis is likely to lose his Tour de France title after a second drugs sample confirmed a positive test for excessive amounts of the male sex hormone testosterone.
Italy team captain Fabio Cannavaro visited former Juventus player Gianluca Pessotto in hospital on Tuesday, bringing with him a gift of a replica World Cup.
With defender Carlos Salcido's signing by Dutch soccer team PSV Eindhoven, Mexico now has six players in Europe, an unusually large number for a country that has exported a total of 30 players in six decades, local media reported on Tuesday
Three top Italian soccer clubs insisted all charges against them should be thrown out in a match-fixing trial, distancing themselves from champions Juventus who have suggested they might settle for relegation
Italian sports minister and the emergency supremo of the Soccer Federation (FIGC) Wednesday rejected calls for those implicated in a massive match-fixing scandal to be granted an amnesty if the Azzurri win the World Cup.
Shaolin Temple abbot Shi Yongxin is to fly to Germany to watch the World Cup soccer final on the invitation by FIFA President Sepp Blatter, the temple said on Wednesday.
According to PAP news agency Poland's Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz on Monday asked the authorities of the Polish Football Association (PZPN) to publicize its budget