French President Sarkozy to attend Olympic opening ceremony
Tokyo - French President Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday expressed his intention to attend the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics in August, media reports said, ending a threat to boycott the event over China's reaction to Tibetan protests earlier this y...
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Nadal arrives home as hero, says that number 1 is now his goal
Manacor, Spain - New Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal arrived to a hero's welcome in his home town of Manacor on the Spanish island of Majorca Tuesday, sand declatred that the number one spot in world tennis is now his goal. Now it has become a littl...
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Kiefer wants Schuettler to take German Olympic team place - Summary
Gstaad, Switzerland - Nicolas Kiefer won his first match of the summer clay season on Tuesday, then called for former surprise Wimbledon semi-finalist Rainer Schuettler to be given a late place on the German Olympic team. Kiefer, 31, and the 32-year-...
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STANDINGS: 2008 Tour de France
1. Stefan Schumacher, Germany, Gerolsteiner, 14 hours 4 minutes 41 seconds 2. Kim Kirchen, Luxembourg, Team Columbia, 12 seconds behind 3. David Millar, Britain, Garmin Chipotle, same time (st) 4. Cadel Evans, Australia, Silence-Lotto, 21 seconds 5....
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Amnesty in Olympic countdown human rights call to Beijing
London - Amnesty International has appealed to the Chinese leadership to take further steps on human rights before next month' Olympic Games while also stressing that it recognized the efforts already made by Beijing to address longstanding human ri...
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German surprises Tour de France by winning fourth stage - Update
Cholet, France - Stefan Schumacher of Germany created the first big surprise of the 2008 Tour de France by winning Tuesday's fourth stage, an individual time trial in and around the western city of Cholet. In recording his first-ever Tour stage victo...
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Report: Laporta to resign Thursday as Barcelona president
Barcelona - Barcelona president Joan Laporta is set to resign Thursday in the face of pressure from his fellow board members, the daily Sport said Tuesday in its online edition. The Barcelona board is set to meet Thursday in an emergency meeting, a...
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Port Elizabeth dropped from Confederations Cup
Johannesburg - The local organizing committee (OC) of the 2010 World Cup announced Tuesday that they had dropped Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth from the venues for the 2009 Confederations Cup. The OC met in Johannesburg on Tuesday and said that wh...
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Coulthard hopes Vettel will succeed him in Red Bull cockpit
Stuttgart - David Coulthard said in an interview published Tuesday that he hopes Sebastian Vettel replaces him in the cockpit at Red Bull when the Scot retires from Formula One racing at the end of the season. For me Sebastian Vettel has everything ...
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Head of Polish FA to stay on in office until 2012
Warsaw - The head of the Polish Football Association (PZPN), Michal Listkiewicz, intends remaining in office until the country's co-hosting of Euro 2012 with Ukraine despite earlier statements that he intended to resign. Listkiewicz told Tuesday's Ga...
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