Olympics: Alpine skiing-Ryding ready for the great indoors
LONDON (Reuters) – The Alpine ski season is drawing near and Britain’s top Olympic hope Dave Ryding will be heading indoors, far from any snowcapped mountains.
Carvalho given prison sentence for tax fraud in Spain
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Former Chelsea and Real Madrid defender Ricardo Carvalho was sentenced to seven months in prison and fined 142,882 euros ($167,000) on Friday for crimes against the Spanish tax authority, a Spanish court filing said.
IOC suspends Brazil’s Nuzman after arrest in vote-buying scandal
ZURICH (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday suspended Brazil’s national Olympics committee head after his arrest for allegedly arranging more than $2 million in bribes to get the IOC to pick Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 ga…
Ruthless Nadal sets up semi-final showdown with Dimitrov
(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal produced an assured display to beat big-serving American John Isner 6-4 7-6(0) at the China Open on Friday and set up a semi-final clash with third seed Grigor Dimitrov.
Motor racing: Mercedes’ Bottas set for gearbox penalty in Japan
SUZUKA, Japan, Oct 6 – Valtteri Bottas is set to drop five places on the grid for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix as the result of an unscheduled gearbox change on his Mercedes. Rules say a driver has to use one gearbox for six straight races.
Motor racing: Renault F1 team signs former FIA technical head Budkowski
SUZUKA, Japan, Oct 6 – Renault managing director Cyril Abiteboul said the French manufacturer’s Formula One team were prepared to consider an April 2018 joining date for new recruit Marcin Budkowski, after hiring the former technical head of the sport’s governing body in a move that has upset rivals.
CAS confirms decision to strip Chicherova of 2008 high jump medal
ZURICH (Reuters) – Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova has lost her appeal against the decision to strip her of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal over a doping offense, sport’s highest tribunal CAS said on Friday.
Cilic powers into Japan Open semi-finals
(Reuters) – Top seed Marin Cilic strolled into the Japan Open semi-finals with a dominant 6-2 6-0 victory over American Ryan Harrison on Friday.
Tennis: Davis Cup zonal matches reduced to two days in 2018
LONDON (Reuters) – Some Davis Cup ties will be reduced to a two-day format with best-of-three-set matches instead of best-of-five next year, the International Tennis Federation said on Friday.
Irish jockey Gibbons banned for positive test, sample switch
(Reuters) – Irish jockey Graham Gibbons has been banned for two-and-a-half years after failing a drugs test and attempting to swap urine samples with another rider, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) said on Thursday.
