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LONDON (Reuters) - World number one tennis player Roger Federer believes his friend Thierry Henry should not be villified for the handball which helped France edge past Ireland into the World Cup finals Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has agreed that South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800 meters world title, the country's sports ministry said Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The case of South African runner Caster Semenya will not be discussed at this week's IAAF Council pending completion of tests on the athlete, the International Association of Athletics Federations said Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - 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.
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Bahrain's Olympic 1500m champion Rashid Ramzi is stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games. (Read More)
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has already begun to throw the considerable weight of its state-run sports system behind the game of golf after it won a place at the 2016 Olympics last month.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oakland Athletics closer Andrew Bailey was named American League Rookie of the Year while Florida Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan won the National League award announced on Monday.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil must be careful to respect human rights as it moves to contain violence in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2014 soccer World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the top U.N. rights official said on Friday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Michael Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is not expecting to produce any eye-popping displays at this weekend's World Cup event in the German capital.
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REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (Reuters) - When Italy won the Fed Cup final last weekend, the screaming crowds and the buzzing media covering the event showed just how much tennis has moved up on the public radar in the soccer-mad nation.
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PARIS (Reuters) - World number two Rafael Nadal said on Tuesday tennis was free of doping and repeated his view that the testing procedures were too tough.
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BALI (Reuters) - The governing body of women's tennis would like to see the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revise its 'whereabouts rule' to give players more flexibility when they are competing.
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washingtonpost.com - Sports:
At Gaithersburg High School, the Trojans' sports teams are not as reflective of the school's demographic shifts, because fewer foreign-rooted students try out for athletics.
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