The former world number one is suffering from a knee injury.\n\n
Dozens of the 250 Olympic horses arrived at Athens airport late on Tuesday and dozens more were due by dawn as teams such as Britain and Germany picked cooler hours to fly horses in.
Former U.S. President George Bush began a gathering of political heavyweights for the Athens Olympics but doping was again the talking point for sport.
Nationality in sport has become muddied following the break-up of the Soviet bloc and the transfer of talent from poor to rich countries.
The American sprinter tested positive for a metabolite of cannabis at a meeting in Seville in June.
The Indian hockey team's chief coach said the current team was capable of winning the Olympic title.
American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday, holding her nerve to clinch the women's 10m air rifle event.
Disappointed at missing out on a bronze at Sydney, weightlifter Sanamcha Chanu is determined to make amends in Athens.
Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk.
Three times in the past 15 years weightlifting officials have wiped out all existing records tainted by drug-taking.
While Damon stays true to his character and is intense throughout the film, it's the story which lets down this spy thriller, says Namrata Thakker.
The double Olympic champion pulled out because of an Achilles injury.
Athens Olympics officials were angered by a British newspaper report claiming to reveal details of the opening ceremony on August 13.
The unceremonious sacking of Rajinder Singh as national coach by the Indian Hockey Federation just three weeks before the Olympics came for heavy criticism from many quarters.
The world number two tennis player said the sport does not deserve to be at the Games.
The 25-year-old will join Aparna Popat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta in the badminton event at Athens.
The captain of Greece's European championship winning side joined the Serie A club on a two-year contract.\n\n
Spanish club Levante said talks with the Greece captain, named player of the tournament at Euro 2004, are at an advanced stage.
The world 100 metres champion tested positive for the banned stimulant nikethamide at a meeting in Europe earlier this season.
The Bhopal Hockey Association said handicapped players from Punjab are being offered an opportunity to represent the country.
The World record holder failed to make the US 100 metres team for next month's Olympics.
The Indian lung jump ace slid a place to No. 5 in the latest IAAF rankings.
The defending champion withdrew from this year's Grand Slam tournament because of a knee injury.
Pillay said he would play in the inaugural Premier Hockey League in Hyderabad and donate his earnings for the tsunami victims.
The World and Olympic champion broke the 100 metres world record with a time of 9.76 seconds at an IAAF Super Tour meeting on Friday.
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