Ethiopia's Meseret Defar won a car for setting a women's two-mile world best at the Van Damme Golden League meeting on Friday although she will have to find someone else to drive it home.
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari apologised on Thursday for lashing out at Ivica Dragutinovic after Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifier but said the Serbian defender had insulted his family.
Denmark coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller did not shake hands with China coach Marika Domanski-Lyfors after his team suffered a 3-2 loss to the World Cup hosts here on Wednesday.
PARIS - Olympic bronze medalist Naman Keita of France had abnormal results on an anti-doping test taken during the track and field world championships, anti-doping officials said Tuesday.
The four-year marriage of French soccer star Thierry Henry and his English wife Claire Merry was ended by a divorce court judge in London on Monday.
France coach Raymond Domenech will appear on Tuesday before UEFA's appeals committee over controversial comments about refereeing he made in a newspaper interview last month, the French Federation (FFF) said.
A Singapore runner on Sunday died in a half marathon race which kicked off early Sunday at the Esplanade Bridge and was attended by some 70,000 runners.
Austrian steeplechaser Guenther Weidlinger was rushed to hospital with facial injuries after a nasty fall at the world championships on Sunday.
Two Brazilian judo directors have been kicked out of the Panamerican Games for their part in a brawl following a match, the local organising committee said on Monday.
Rolland Mays Stiles, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, died on Sunday at the age of 100 in a nursing home in St Louis, the Post-Dispatch newspaper reported on Monday.
College-age soccer players may show some degree of brain-tissue shrinkage, a small study has found -- adding to evidence that the sport carries a risk of long-term brain injury.
Buses belonging to four teams on the Tour de France have been searched by French customs, an Astana team spokeswoman said on Monday.
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