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Pyeongchang, South Korea - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won his third gold medal at the biathlon world championships with victory in the 20-kilometre individual race in Pyeongchang on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old Norwegian crossed the line 14.1 seconds ahead of Christoph Stephan of Germany, with Jakov Fak of Croatia clinching...
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Tehran - Iran denied entry visas for a US women's badminton team which was scheduled to come to Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Wednesday.
The spokesman argued that the lengthy visa procedure made it impossible for the team to come to Tehran for a February tournament.
A crush of photographers and TV...
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Innsbruck, Austria - Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht remained in an induced coma in an Innsbruck hospital on Friday, but doctors said his condition was improving more than a week after he crashed heavily in training for the Kitzbuehel downhill.
Doctors said there were no complications in the skier's treatment for head injuries and that...
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Pamela Jelimo of Kenya won't be able to seek another million-dollar jackpot as the 800 metres is not among the disciplines confirmed on Thursday for the elite Golden League athletics series in 2009.
The ruling body IAAF said in a statement that Golden league disciplines next year are the men's 100 metres, 400m, 3,000m/5,000m, 110m...
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Jamaican supersprinter Usain Bolt and Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva are among the six finalists for the World Athlete of the Year award.
The governing body IAAF said in a statement on Monday that the Bolt, who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the Beijing Olympics in world record times, double long-distance gold medallist...
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Germany's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) will introduce from the start of 2009 strict new rules requiring the country's top athletes to make themselves available for at least one hour a day for random dope tests.
"During this hour, one would have to wait for a tester at a certain place," said NADA legal advisor Anja...
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The IAAF, the governing body of world athletics, has imposed two-year doping bans on eight Russian athletes for testing positive a varied of substances, including the banned blood-booster EPO.
It emerged Thursday that the athletes are mostly from the sport of walking and include Vladimir Kanaykin, the 20-kilometre walk world record...
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The 2008 Formula One season reaches its thrilling conclusion with the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos this weekend when Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes and Ferrari's Felipe Massa battle it out for the drivers' world championship crown.
Hamilton needs just a fifth place finish to ensure he goes into the record books as the...
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The Italian cyclists' union AACPI has called in a letter to UCI president Pat McQuaid for life bans to be imposed cyclists who fail dope tests and refuse to cooperate with the authorities.
The demand contradicts the current World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines of a two-year ban for doping as well as McQuaid's preference for the...
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The north Estonian town of Rakvere is an unlikely venue for a world championship of any sort, let alone the exotic rituals of Japanese Sumo wrestling.
Yet thanks to the feats of a local boy made good, Rakvere (population 17,000) will host the 16th Sumo world championships on Saturday and Sunday.
Around 400 competitors from 32...
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