HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Brazil's Hulk scored twice and created another goal to lead his team to a 3-1 victory over Denmark in a friendly match in Hamburg on Saturday, with the error-prone Scandinavians in need of improvement ahead of next month's Euro 2012. More »Hulk leads Brazil to 3-1 win over error-prone Denmark
An Olympic torch-carrying carpenter got more than five minutes of fame when he was mistaken … More »Rugby star mix-up in torch relay
LONDON (Reuters) - The London Olympics … More »Games giving "Brand Britain" an Asian …
LONDON (Reuters) - The London Olympics are giving "brand Britain" a fillip in China and India, a survey indicated on Saturday, boosting the government's ambition of attracting an extra one billion pounds of inward investment and trade. More »Games giving "Brand Britain" an Asian boost
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Usain Bolt laboured to victory in the men's 100 metres at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava on Friday but was at a loss to explain why after failing to improve on his season best or meet the target he had set himself before the race. … More »Bemused Bolt disappointed with slow time in Ostrava
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Lydia Nsereka, the president of the Burundi Football Association, became the first woman ever to sit on the executive committee of soccer's world governing body FIFA at the annual congress on Friday. "I am delighted we have the first … More »Nsereka becomes first woman on FIFA executive committee
British climber Kenton Cool reached the summit of Everest on Friday, his website announced, fulfilling an 88-year-old promise to carry an Olympic gold medal to the top of the world's highest peak. More »Briton completes Olympic mission to Everest summit
Usain Bolt will find it tough to repeat the sprint double at the London Olympics because there is stiffer competition than four years ago, former 100m champion Linford Christie warned on Friday. More »Usain Bolt faces threats in London - Christie
Jessica Ennis's coach has slammed a senior figure at UK Athletics for describing the British heptathlon star as overweight ahead of the London Olympics. More »Ennis coach slams overweight slurs
PADUA, Italy (Reuters) - "The car broke into two pieces, one bit of me stayed with the car and the other bit, which was my legs, went 'arrivederci' in the other direction. And that's how I won the tickets to London 2012," says Alessandro Zanardi with … More »True grit-Zanardi heads to Paralympics
(Reuters) - Athens Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat has criticised badminton's ruling body in the run-up to this year's London Games after Indonesia crashed out of the Thomas Cup. More »Hidayat in a huff before London
PARIS (Reuters) - A tennis racket stuffed with electronic sensors capable of tracking a player's every slice, spin and smash made its public debut at the French Open on Thursday. Tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were among those who tested … More »Electronic tennis racket makes world debut
The Olympic torch has been "saluted" by two flag-waving elephants at a safari park after the flame was transported aboard a train for the first time. More »Elephants 'salute' Olympic torch
Doha has not ruled out making a fresh bid to bring the Olympics to the Middle East for the first time, despite being ruled out of the running to host the 2020 Games. More »IOC twice snubs Qatar but Gulf nation undeterred
LONDON (Reuters) - Private security guards manning venues at July and August's London Olympics have been warned against over-zealous behaviour that might alienate sports fans, the firm in charge of training said on Thursday. More »London 2012 security guards told to smile
MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games will help boost Spain's flagging economy if successful, the organising committee said after being named as one of the three cities left in the race to host the world's biggest sporting sp … More »Madrid 2020 bid team see chance to lift ailing economy
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter's reform of FIFA will continue on Friday when delegates at the 62nd FIFA Congress review a set of proposals aimed at modernising the way world soccer's governing body is run. In an interview with Reuters this week, the … More »FIFA Congress set to accelerate Blatter's reforms
(Reuters) - Doha struck a defiant and optimistic pose following the news the city had not made the cut for the final three candidates bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games. The Qatari capital, along with Azerbaijan's Baku, was not shortlisted by the … More »Disappointed yet defiant, Doha looks ahead
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Thursday that staging the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo would symbolise the country's recovery from last year's deadly tsunami after the city made the International Olympic Committee (IOC) short-list. … More »Tokyo 2020 bid symbol of recovery - PM
QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The chase to host the 2020 Summer Games was reduced to a three horse race between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo after Doha and the Azerbaijan capital Baku were dropped from the running by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) … More »Doha, Baku out of running for 2020 Games
QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The race to host the 2020 Summer Games is now a three-way battle between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo after Qatar's Doha and Azerbaijan's Baku were dumped as candidates, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesda … More »Doha, Baku out of running for 2020 Games
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Athletics Kenya (AK) has defended the country's athletes against doping allegations made by German national broadcaster ARD and said on Wednesday it would investigate the claims. Last weekend's "Sportschau" programme, under the headline … More »Kenya launches probe after doping allegations report
LONDON (Reuters) - New York's police chief said on Wednesday he was impressed with security planning for this summer's London Olympics, rejecting suggestions that U.S. officials were concerned about arrangements for the games which start next month. Commissioner … More »NYPD chief gives thumbs up to Games security
Usain Bolt has vowed not to swap his sprinting spikes for a pair of skates after news that Jamaica had been accepted as a member nation of the International Ice Hockey Federation. More »You won't catch me on the ice or the ballpark: Bolt
Didier Drogba has carried the Olympic torch through Swindon on the latest stage of its tour. More »Didier Drogba Carries Olympic Torch Through Swindon
Chelsea's Champions League hero Didier Drogba was given a rapturous welcome as he carried the Olympic flame on Wednesday, the day after announcing he was leaving the club. More »Rapturous welcome for Drogba on Olympics torch relay
World leaders and politicians guilty of human rights abuses will be banned from entering Britain for the 2012 London Olympics, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. More »Leaders guilty of rights abuses banned from Olympics
The Olympic torch went out for the first time during the London 2012 relay, organisers have confirmed. More »Olympic flame goes out during relay
The Olympic torch took a wrong turn shortly before it crossed the Clifton Suspension Bridge in a spectacular display of fireworks. More »Olympic torch takes a wrong turn
The Olympic torch took a brief wrong turn near Bristol on Wednesday, delaying the relay by about ten minutes. More »Olympic torch takes a wrong turn
Favourites Great Britain will be looking for a successful tune-up for the London Olympics when play begins Wednesday in hockey's seven-nation Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia. More »Britain field hockey team seek Olympic tune-up
LONDON (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian athletes from dozens of countries that outlaw homosexuality should seek asylum in Britain during the Olympic Games in London to escape persecution or even death at home, a prominent human rights activist said on Tue … More »Gay athletes should seek asylum during Games - activist
QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The Ukraine National Olympic Committee launched an investigation on Tuesday and suspended a top official accused of offering to sell thousands of dollars worth of tickets for the London Olympics on the black market. More »Ukrainian official suspended amid ticket scandal
LONDON (Reuters)- When Malaysian cyclist Azizulhasni Awang opted to postpone his Ramadan fast until after the London Games, the decision was all about going for Olympic gold. Anything that might jeopardise the chance of a medal for the 24-year-old at … More »Ramadan sets Muslim athletes extra test at London Games
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian sprinter Inna Eftimova, who was preparing for the London Olympics, has been banned for two years for doping, the Bulgarian athletics federation said on Tuesday. Eftimova, who will turn 24 next month, had tested positive for … More »Bulgarian sprinter Eftimova banned for two years
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's men's hockey team will play their opening match of the London Olympics against Argentina, one of whose players caused a controversy this month with a video filmed in the disputed Falkland islands. Games organisers announced … More »Britain draw Argentina in men's hockey opener
A promising Olympic triathlete has told Sky News how she walked away from the sport just months before the London Games because of her battle with an eating disorder and depression. More »Olympian Quits After Eating Disorder Battle
People could be queuing at airports for up to four hours during the London Olympics, the chief of the UK Border Force has admitted. More »Airports May See Four-Hour Olympic Queues
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Olympic champion Usain Bolt hopes to clock 9.7 seconds in the 100 metres at the Golden Spike meeting in the Czech Republic on Friday as he continues his preparations for the London Games. More »Bolt eyes 9.7s at 100m in Ostrava
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - FIFA co-opted a woman to its executive committee for the first time on Tuesday and continued its reform process by pressing ahead with changes to its ethics committee. More »FIFA names woman to executive committee for first time
Winter Olympics gold medallist Amy Williams said carrying the Olympic torch was an "amazing feeling". More »Skeleton star 'proud' of torch role
Military is to take charge of London's airspace for the first time since 1945 as part of the huge security operation set up to police the Olympic Games, according to The Times. More »Military to take charge of air space for Olympics
The military will "sterilise" London's airspace during the Olympic Games in the most severe air security restrictions Britain has ever seen, it has been revealed. More »London 2012: Air Traffic Chief's Challenge