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iBet: AC Milan’s lead at the top looks temporary

Juventus lost the lead of Serie A in Italy at the weekend by virtue of their game with Bologne being...

Financial strife fails to dim smiles at high-flying Rayo Vallecano

This is a club that, despite all it's off-the-field financial problems, is currently flourishing in ...

Hertha Berlin and the Skibbe saga – a depressing tale

Perhaps, in a few decades time, some German writer will transform Michael Skibbe's excruciatingly br...

Cavendish on the London Olympics: 'Professionally it won't do anything for me at all. But it's important because I'm patriotic'

Mark Cavendish: Is Olympic gold at end of the rainbow?

15 February 2012 12:00 AM

Last year he won the World Champion's multicoloured jersey. In 2012 his aim is just one colour in London. He tells Alasdair Fotheringham how he aims to use the Tour to achieve it

Members of the USA Olympic diving team have been making a splash while training at Ponds Forge swimming pool in Sheffield

Lane closed – the US Olympic diving team is over here already

15 February 2012 12:00 AM

It is an afternoon session at Sheffield's council-run Ponds Forge pool, and the usual flotilla of keep-fit swimmers is determinedly groping its way up and down the lanes.

GB performance director, Dave Brailsford, says four-day event is a 'learning opportunity'

Cycling: Velodrome on trial as World Cup to offer tough test for GB

15 February 2012 12:00 AM

Britain's much-vaunted track cyclists will use this week's World Cup event at the Velodrome in the Olympic Park as a "learning experience", according to Dave Brailsford, the team's performance director. Some will have more to learn than others at the first competitive event staged at the venue in east London, with Dani King, a world and European champion, left out of the team pursuit.

Rome out of race to host 2020 Olympics

15 February 2012 12:00 AM

Rome has dropped out of the race to host the 2020 Olympics and in doing so has given a massive boost to Qatar's hopes.

Fire breaks out at Olympic Park in Stratford

14 February 2012 10:47 AM

A fire that broke out at the Olympic Park caused no major damage or injuries, London 2012 event organisers and the city's fire brigade said today.

LORD COE: The revelations undermine Dow’s assurance to the Locog chairman it is a distinct entity to UCC

Olympic sponsorship row fuelled by Bhopal revelations

13 February 2012 12:00 AM

Legal documents reveal Dow Chemical sidestepped trading ban after disaster

Ryan Gregson: They all say I look like Ovett – and I get a real kick out of that

12 February 2012 12:00 AM

On The Road To 2012: Postcard from Wollongong

Olympic sponsorship tensions reignite

12 February 2012 12:00 AM

A former London 2012 ethics commissioner who resigned in protest after a decision to accept sponsorship from the chemical multinational Dow, which now owns the company responsible for the Bhopal disaster in India, reignited the row this weekend, accusing a senior Olympic official of misrepresenting her.

Biometric scans for all overseas Games athletes

12 February 2012 12:00 AM

UK launches international operation to gather information on Olympic participants and coaches

GB rhythmic gymnastics group wait for decision

11 February 2012 12:00 AM

Great Britain's rhythmic gymnastics group will learn if their appeal over their exclusion from the Olympics has been successful at the end of this month.

2012 Olympic 'segregation' for warring nations

11 February 2012 12:00 AM

The delicate equilibrium of global politics is rarely a hotel manager's concern. But Chris Hale, who is managing London's Olympics' athletes' village for the InterContinental Hotels Group, has revealed details of the geopolitical segregation he has had to enforce in the hope of maintaining peace among his 17,000 guests.