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Defender Michel Bastos fires in a shot as the England winger Shaun Wright-Phillips takes evasive action during a 1-0 victory for Brazil in Doha last night

One Nilmar to Brazil

Striker heads in the only goal as Samba boys waltz past England despite missing penalty

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England striker Darren Bent wins a header during the friendly against Brazil in Doha last night

Boys from Brazil prove Fabio's understudies have lot to learn

Brazil 1 England 0: Questionable enterprise provides little insight for Capello as captain Rooney fails to inspire side.

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Scotland's full-back, Rory Lamont, tries to escape from Ifereimi Rawaqa of Fiji at Murrayfield yesterday

Robinson harnesses Warriors' spirit

Scotland 23 Fiji 10: Scotland's new English coach oversees encouraging performance from players reared on both sides of the border.

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Kevin Pietersen called Jacques Kallis the greatest ever player; 'It was a great compliment but you've got to look at it in context,' says Kallis. 'The stats might be there but we're playing a lot more'

Jacques of all trades, and the master too

Kallis is an old dog who has learnt new tricks thanks to T20 but blushes at Pietersen claim that he's the best ever

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Button reported to have taken tour of McLaren headquarters

Jenson Button's future remains in doubt with reports the 2009 Formula One world champion went on a tour of McLaren's factory in Woking yesterday.

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More than 250,000 tickets have been sold for the O2 Arena but Andy Murray says: 'I guess it's tough to educate the public as to how big a deal it is'

Murray finally fit and ready for capital effort

Home favourite to shrug off aches and pains for season-ending finale in London

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Rendall Munroe made windows, sold shoes and completed a course as a welder before he began working as a dustman

Boxing: Binman who never refuses a good scrap

Munroe is tipped to repeat high-visibility feats of Haye and be crowned Britain's fourth world champion

Sailing

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Artemis pairing Sam Davies and Sidney Gavignet were also hit by the bad conditions

Dramatic rescue as race hit by wild weather

A distress signal from the 60-foot yacht BT in the Transat Jacques Vabre sent a French navy frigate, with a helicopter onboard, racing to the rescue of Sebastien Josse and Jean-Francois Cuzon today.

Rugby League

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England's Sam Burgess goes over to score despite the attentions of Australia half-back Johnathan Thurston

Burgess tries hard but Australia are too good

England 16 Australia 46: The wait for a British win over Australia in a tournament or series goes on.

Olympics

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'I probably will go into politics. I'd love to be minister of sport. Knowing what I do, I could do a damn better job than some of them,' says Tessa Sanderson

Tessa Sanderson: 'I was spat on and called golliwog'

An amazing life has included Olympic gold and outspoken views on drugs. Now Tessa's academy is finding our sporting stars of the future – so why is she still an outsider?

Golf

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The Hacker: A hail of abuse, then I go cold turkey

While the more refined club golfers carefully fold their cashmere sweaters and put them away for the winter, the more intrepid prepare to face up to the dark, stormy months regardless of the discomfort ahead.

Racing

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Andrew McNamara and Tranquil Sea clear the last fence en route to winning the Paddy Power Gold Cup

Tranquil Sea powers home to turn the tide for Irish raiders

After 29 years of failure O'Grady's gelding strikes gold for the Emerald Isle

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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