Losing Allison won’t affect Ferrari much in the short-term: Vettel
HOCKENHEIM, Germany (Reuters) – Four-times champion Sebastian Vettel feels the sudden departure of technical director James Allison will not have a major impact on his Ferrari team in the immediate future.
London to host Nuggets and Pacers NBA clash
LONDON (Reuters) – London is to host a regular-season NBA game for the seventh time when Denver Nuggets play Indiana Pacers in January, the National Basketball Association said on Thursday.
Cycling: Three Russians withdrawn, three probed, 11 eligible for Rio
(Reuters) – Three Russian cyclists have been withdrawn from the Rio Games by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), three riders are under investigation by the sport’s world governing body and 11 are eligible to compete, the UCI said on Thursday.
Wrestling governing body clears most Russian wrestlers for Rio
MOSCOW (Reuters) – United World Wrestling, the governing body for Olympic forms of wrestling, said on Thursday a special commission it set up had recommended that 16 of the 17 Russian wrestlers who qualified for the Rio Olympics should be allowed to ta…
IOC passed buck by not issuing blanket ban: Redmond
COVENTRY, England (Reuters) – Olympic chiefs were guilty of “passing the buck” when they elected not to impose a blanket ban on Russian athletes for next month’s Rio Games, says former world 4×400 meters relay champion Derek Redmond.
Putin: Olympic ban on Russian athletes is result of political plot
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said a shadowy political plot had succeeded in unfairly stripping some Russian sportspeople of the right to compete at the Rio Olympics over doping allegations and promised to defend Russia’s tarnished sporti…
Weightlifting: Valentin eyes London gold after rivals fail retests
(Reuters) – Spanish weightlifter Lidia Valentin hopes to be awarded an Olympic gold medal from London 2012 after the athletes that finished above her all failed drug tests when their samples were reanalyzed.
Volleyballer Tetyukhin named Russia’s flag bearer in Rio
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Sergei Tetyukhin, the captain of the Russian men’s volleyball team, will carry the country’s flag during the opening ceremony of the Rio Games, twice Olympic pole vault champion Elena Isinbayeva said on Thursday.
Nadal’s injury situation ‘delicate’, says Ferrer
(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal’s injury situation is “delicate” ahead of the Rio Olympics, according to Spanish team mate David Ferrer.
Globetrotting horses take flight for Rio
LONDON (Reuters) – Pegasus, the winged white stallion of Ancient Greek mythology, may have been the equine world’s first frequent flyer but today’s Olympic horses are the real globetrotters racking up the air miles.
