Athletics: No appeal for Chambers
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Dwain Chambers will not be able to compete at the Beijing Olympics after missing the deadline to appeal against his lifetime ban.
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The Football Association have confirmed they will not take any action over Robin van Persie&#39;s alleged elbow on Kieran Richardson during Arsenal&#39;s Carling Cup defeat at Manchester United.
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The Football Association won&#39;t take disciplinary action against Arsenal striker Robin van Persie for throwing an elbow at Manchester United&#39;s Kieren Richardson in a Carling Cup game.
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Olympic champion Kelly Holmes will not contest the 800 metres when the final day&#39;s action at the World Athletics Final gets underway on Sunday.
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American gymnast Paul Hamm will keep  his Olympic all-round gold medal after the Court of Arbitration  for Sport (CAS) rejected Thursday an appeal from South Korea's  Yang Tae-young.
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British Olympic officials insist there is no intention to gag athletes from making political comment in China during the 2008 Games in Beijing.
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Canadian gymnastics officials are dropping their appeal of the men&#39;s vault competition at the Athens Olympics, saying Thursday the likelihood of success was &quot;very doubtful at best.
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Olympians can do media interviews but they'd better not blog. The International Olympic Committee, interested in protecting lucrative broadcasting contracts, forbids any activity that might upset the networks.
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A federal appeals court rejected a bid to free Barry Bonds 's personal trainer, who has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury.
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Lo sprinter Dwaine Chambers ha deciso di non fare ricorso contro la sua esclusione dalla rappresenta...
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Much as it pains me, I cannot vote against Sports Illustrated&#39;s pick of the Boston Red Sox as Sportsmen of the Year. Similarly, I cannot say that in any other year since 1918 Michael Phelps, or perhaps Lance Armstrong, was not a worthy choice.
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TRACK: Dwain Chambers, 29, put British officials in a bind when he won an automatic qualifying spot this past weekend for next month's world indoor championships in Valencia, Spain. UK Athletics had tried to bar Chambers, who served a two-year drug ban after testing positive for the designer ster...
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Media & professional: House of Lords rejects Mail on Sunday's request for leave to appeal in Prince Charles diaries case.
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British athletes will not be banned from commenting on political issues at the Beijing Olympics, the British Olympic Association says.
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Christos Tzekos, the former coach of Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, said he and the sprinters had no case to answer.
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British athletics was plunged into a fresh controversy when Dwain Chambers, competing after a doping ban, powered to victory in the 60 metres in a national trial here Sunday.
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U.S. sprinter Torri Edwards was knocked out of the Olympics for good Tuesday when an arbitration panel upheld her two-year drug suspension, rejecting her arguments that she took a banned stimulant by accident. Edwards had been considered a medal contender in the 100 and 200 meters at the Athens Games.