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Enke was hit by a train yesterday

Football mourns Germany keeper Enke

Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke, who committed suicide yesterday evening, had been battling depression and was first treated for the illness in 2003.

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Sir Alex Ferguson will claim tests to show referee fitness should be more rigorous

Ferguson to reignite row over 'unfit' referees

Defiant manager confident he will escape with a fine as he prepares to go on offensive at FA hearing

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Jenson Button could wrap up the drivers title in Brazil this weekend

Brawn: 'Button should seek sponsors to boost salary'

Ross Brawn has indicated Jenson Button's salary demands will not be met and is instead prepared to offer the new world champion more freedom to seek out personal sponsorship deals to boost his income.

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Bath's Duncan Bell is savouring his chance to revive his England career at the age of 35

Hartley hooks a starting berth

Northampton No 2 goes head to head against master scrummagers Argentina

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Kevin Pietersen returns to the nets with England in Johannesburg yesterday. He hopes to play in a 50-over warm-up game on Tuesday

No easy gigs for Pietersen on his comeback tour

He is returning from surgery to face the world's best side, taking on the players he grew up with – but KP is not easily intimidated.

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Rafael Nadal reaches for a forehand against Nicolas Almagro in the Paris Masters yesterday

Nadal limps to win over Almagro

World No 2 saves five match points in struggle against fellow Spaniard

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Gymnast Olga Korbut struggled under the Communist regime in 1976

James Lawton: Soviet conflict

Sinister, ruthless... and successful. The Communist system for sport provoked hatred and awe, but cracks were appearing long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Our writer, who witnessed the good and the bad, looks back at a lost empire

Sailing

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Britain's America's Cup team, Origin, with wind tactician Rob Greenhalgh up the mast, controls its American rival BMW Oracle in the Louis Vuitton series off Nice

Team Origin square up with ETNZ

A dress rehearsal of what could be the final of the Louis Vuitton Trophy series is in prospect tomorrow as Britain's unbeaten Team Origin squares up against the only other unbeaten team in the event, Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ).

Rugby League

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'Everyone is relieved and ecstatic. This is a second chance and a new start for the club,' Ian Millward on Leigh's reprive

Leigh thrown a lifeline by Gateshead demise

Coach Millward heralds 'new start' as club is spared demotion to third tier

Olympics

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Zaha Hadid's 'Stingray' roof makes waves

With its dazzling, undulating design and prominent positioning at the entrance to the Olympic Park, ministers hope that the London Aquatics Centre will be the architectural jewel in the capital's crown in 2012. Yesterday they breathed a collective sigh of relief as the building's 2,800-ton "stingray" roof was lowered into position after eight months of painstaking preparations.

Golf

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'I am playing the best golf of my career,' said Phil Mickelson

Mickelson holds nerve to edge Els

Phil Mickelson is excited about the prospects 2010 will bring after ending a difficult season with a thrilling victory at the WGC-HSBC Champions here yesterday.

Racing

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Ballyfitz, ridden by Paddy Brennan, clears the last fence before winning the Sir Tristram Ricketts Novices Steeple Chase at Cheltenham a year ago

Ballyfitz shows class for Gold Cup

Twiston-Davies confident of replicating last year's triumph at Cheltenham

Athletics

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<p> <b>Tim Montgomery (United States, Athletics) </b> </p> <p></p> <p> Montgomery's case is regarded as a landmark in the fight against doping as it introduced the non-analytical positive. </p> <p></p> <p> Once the world's fastest man, Montgomery never returned a positive test for a banned substance but admitted under oath to a U.S. Federal grand jury investigating BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative) that he had used steroids and human growth hormone. </p> <p></p> <p> Montgomery, who helped the United States to win gold in the 4x100 metres relay at the Sydney Olympics, was stripped of his medal and his 100 metres world record of 9.78 seconds set in 2002 in Paris was wiped from the record books based on the evidence given during his testimony. He was barred from competition in 2005 and retired the following year. </p> <p></p> <p> Montgomery, who has a son with disgraced sprint queen Marion Jones, was later sentenced to 46 months in prison for cheque fraud and money laundering and last October had five years added to his sentence after being convicted of possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it. </p>

High-profile drug cheats exposed by WADA

It is ten years since the World Anti-Doping Agency was formed in order to fight the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.

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