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Rio redemption sought after London's race of shame
AFP, Published on 16/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The women's 1500m race at the 2012 London Games has gone down as being the one of the most tainted in Olympic history.
Samba gets things swinging in Rio favela badminton school
AFP, Published on 12/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - A Rio favela teacher uses the rhythms of samba to teach 200 children badminton. If that sounds like an unlikely mix, get this: his son is representing Brazil in the Olympics.
Israel charges 19 far-right football fans with attempted murder
AFP, Published on 07/08/2016
» JERUSALEM - Israel on Sunday charged nineteen members of La Familia, a group of far-right football fans of Beitar Jerusalem, with attempted murder, the police said.
Athlete Dibaba's coach arrested in Spain in doping probe
AFP, Published on 20/06/2016
» BARCELONA - Spanish police on Monday arrested Somali track coach Jama Aden, whose Ethiopian protege Genzebe Dibaba is the current world 1500m champion, as part of an investigation into drug trafficking.
Footballer Alan Pulido kidnapped in Mexican hometown: police
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» NUEVO LAREDO (MEXICO) - Mexican footballer Alan Pulido, a striker on Greece's Olympiakos team, was kidnapped Sunday in his home state of Tamaulipas, law enforcement officials said.
Police dogs train to sniff out terror threat at Rio Olympics
AFP, Published on 26/05/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Police dogs in Brazil are more used to sniffing out drugs than explosives, but with the Olympics coming up, they have been training hard to help thwart potential terrorist attacks.
Old Dogg, new tricks: Snoop reinvented as football coach
AFP, Published on 18/05/2016
» LOS ANGELES - With a criminal career that takes in cocaine trafficking, rolling with Los Angeles gangs, weapons charges and a murder trial, he may be an unlikely role model.
Doped Chinese swimmers given only warnings
AFP, Published on 30/03/2016
» BEIJING - Two Chinese swimmers who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs have been given only warnings as a result, the national swimming body said as the World Anti-Doping Agency investigates an alleged cover-up.
Footballer Benzema a witness in money-laundering case
AFP, Published on 18/03/2016
» PARIS - French striker Karim Benzema, already at the centre of a sex-tape blackmail inquiry, has given evidence in a money laundering investigation, a judicial source told AFP.
IAAF calls for "immediate" anti-doping sanctions in Russia
AFP, Published on 20/11/2015
» PARIS - The IAAF on Thursday called for "immediate" sanctions against Russian athletes and coaches caught doping as a condition for the drugs-tainted national federation to regain membership of world athletics' ruling body.