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Boxing: Holyfield on thin ice as he seeks fairy tale world title
Published: 13 October 2007
It has been a career of extremes and glory, but, tonight, at an ice skating arena in Moscow, the 44-year-old Evander Holyfield could fight for the last time when he challenges Sultan Ibragimov for the World Boxing Organisation heavyweight championship.
Athletics: Jones' surrender of medals causes headache for IOC
Published: 10 October 2007
Marion Jones, who announced her retirement from athletics on Friday after admitting to taking steroids before the Sydney 2000 Olympics, has created further embarrassment for the sport – albeit unintentionally – by handing back the five medals she won at those Games.
Boxing: Earl next in line for Khan after powerful performance
Published: 08 October 2007
It is too easy in the boxing business to be wise once the punches have stopped, and that is often the case when Amir Khan fights.
Boxing: Holyfield soldiers on but Lewis fears it's one battle too many
Published: 07 October 2007
"The trouble with Muhammad Ali," Joe Frazier once said of his great adversary, "is that he does not know how to die." What he meant was that Ali's vanity was obliterating the vow he made earlier in his career to "go lie on a beach and forget all this mess" when his fighting days were done. But the lure of the limelight proved dangerously irresistible.
Athletics: Jones should keep medals, says Conte
Published: 07 October 2007
In the fallout yesterday from Marion Jones' New York courtroom admission that she has been powered by something more potent than mere natural talent, an unlikely defender emerged to say that she should be allowed to keep the record quintet of medals she won at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. "People ask me if her achievements are tainted," Victor Conte said in an interview with USA Today. "In my opinion the overwhelming majority of athletes Marion competed against in 2000 were also using performance enhancing substances, so I believe she deserves the medals."
Boxing: Khan recovers poise with measured approach
Published: 07 October 2007
For Amir Khan, pride came after the fall, no slip-ups or slipshod work this time as he restored the slight blemish to his growing reputation by inflicting a crushing defeat on Stoke's Scott Lawton in the first defence of his two-month-old Commonwealth lightweight title
Fishing Lines: Trophy featuring the funny fish proves to be no laughing matter
Published: 07 October 2007
Looks like I've lost my job as Commissioner of Trophies. There's been a rebellion in the Angling Writers' Association ranks. Sadly, my concept of what should sit proudly on someone's mantelpiece differs from most of the membership (or more importantly, their wives and girlfriends). I'm out on my ear, my duties confined to the ceremonial ones of chairman.
Golden girl of 2000 Olympics quits after drugs admission
Published: 06 October 2007
American sprinter Marion Jones has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about steroid use.
Marion Jones: A world-class cheat
Published: 06 October 2007
Batting for Jesus
Published: 06 October 2007
Boxing: Khan fights to prove the boy has turned into a man
Published: 06 October 2007
It took Amir Khan 13 fights and three years to find out just how difficult the world of professional boxing can be. Tomorrow night, Khan returns to the ring for the first time since he was knocked down by Willie Limond in his last fight and the young kid from Bolton, the teenage star of the Athens Olympics, insists that it was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Equestranism: Whitaker keeps family business in healthy state
Published: 05 October 2007
Robert Whitaker kept the family name in the limelight at the Horse of the Year Show despite the absence of his father and uncle, John and Michael, who have missed their home international in favour of a more lucrative fixture in Athens.
Equestranism: O'Connor lifts prize after Echo Beach proves a hit
Published: 05 October 2007
Ireland's Cian O'Connor collected the plum prize of £4,000 on the first day of international jumping at the Horse of the Year Show, having completed a whirlwind clear round on Irish Independent Echo Beach who was competing in her first indoor show.
Athletics: 'Top quality' field draws Radcliffe to New York
Published: 04 October 2007
Paula Radcliffe yesterday confirmed two important developments – that her first marathon since winning the 2005 world title will be New York on 4 November, and that she plans to produce a sibling for her eight-month old daughter Isla between the Beijing Olympics and the 2012 Games.
Athletics: Radcliffe lookalike leaves main attraction adrift
Published: 01 October 2007
Paula Radcliffe's comeback race went largely to plan here yesterday. But she was beaten by an athlete running without a plan.
Athletics: Gebrselassie cuts 29 seconds off Tergat marathon mark
Published: 01 October 2007
Haile Gebrselassie earned what he described as the most important world record of his career in Berlin yesterday as he set a new marathon mark of 2hr 4min 26sec, beating by 29 seconds the time set by his perennial Kenyan rival Paul Tergat on the same course four years ago.
Boxing: Woods remains hopeful of an unlikely Jones rematch
Published: 01 October 2007
Clinton Woods retained his International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight title with a repeat points win against the Mexican Julio Cesar Gonzalez in a fight that will probably be the best of the year.
Cycling: Bettini's volley for critics with road race victory
Published: 01 October 2007
The host city could not stop Paolo Bettini from competing, and the opposition could not stop him from winning.
Great North Run: Warner gets GB back on track - now he's chasing after Paula
Published: 30 September 2007
It is a fair assumption that Ed Warner will not be looking over his shoulder on the road from Newcastle to South Shields this morning. For one thing, in his capacity as chairman of UK Athletics the debutant Great North Runner has a vested interest in the return to competitive action of Paula Radcliffe, who sets off with the elite women 25 minutes ahead of the main 40,000-strong field in the 27th edition of the Tyneside half-marathon. "I'm a huge fan of Paula," Warner said, "but I hope I don't see her inthe race. I hope she's over the horizon and miles away."
Boxing: Khan must slow down to keep world dream alive
Published: 30 September 2007
Amir Khan vows he will be a world champion within his next five fights. His promoter, Frank Warren, keeps telling him it will take at least twice as long. The Bolton Express is 21 on 8 December but he has already come of age in the ring by winning the Commonwealth lightweight title in only his 13th paid bout, and with senior pros Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe nudging towards the end of their careers, he carries the future of British boxing in his flashing fists.
Fishing Lines: The cook was floundering,but I knowmy plaice
Published: 30 September 2007
My parents called me Keith because they didn't want people to abbreviate my name. So what happened? I got called Keithy. Still, being Keithy or Keith (a good Scottish name meaning woodland or forest) hasn't really proved too much of a barrier in life. Might have been different if I had been a slimehead.
Cycling: Brailsford signs new deal to keep Britain on top
Published: 29 September 2007
Dave Brailsford, the man behind Britain's rise to the top of world cycling, has extended his contract beyond the 2012 Olympics.
James Lawton: Wenger's answer to the £100m question contains ominous forecast of bottom line
Published: 29 September 2007
The divinity of Arsène Wenger, we should perhaps remind ourselves as he rides through English football ever higher on his white charger, is never guaranteed.
Paula Radcliffe: 'I'm happier and more balanced than I was'
Published: 29 September 2007
Motorcycling: Toseland confident of improving in race to seal title
Published: 29 September 2007
James Toseland's penultimate weekend in the World Superbike series got off to a steady start when the championship leader was fifth-fastest in the first qualifying session in unpredictable weather in Vallelunga, Italy, yesterday.
