Christophe Lemaitre's fairytale European championship continued when he completed a sprint double on Friday and the Olympic stadium finally came to life as the hosts celebrated their first medals. Spain had to wait a little bit longer than anticipated for their first gold of the championships when Russian Yuliya Zarudneva spoilt the script by beating world champion and home favourite Marta Dominguez in the steeplechase final.
Former champion Naomi Osaka is wearing a different facemask for each of her matches at the US Open this year.
Relief was at hand, however, with a cool change blowing over the city and the temperature expected to fall back below 30 by the evening.
Local hope Nick Kyrgios has been elevated to the Rod Laver Arena for his meeting with childhood hero Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Australian Open on Friday, when Melbourne Park is again expected to swelter.
Ethiopian Tesfaye Abera won the Mumbai Marathon crossing the finish line in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 46 seconds on Sunday.
Maria Sharapova pulled out of the Beijing Olympics on Thursday after an MRI scan on her right shoulder revealed two small tears.
World number one Ana Ivanovic battled her way into the third round of the Montreal Cup to keep her nose in front in the fight for the top ranking on Wednesday. Number three Maria Sharapova, however, will take no further part after withdrawing from the tournament with a shoulder injury following her win over Poland's Marta Domachowska.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah were named as the three finalists.
Sania Mirza survived a late onslaught from world number 61 Marta Domachowhska in her 6-1, 6-4 win in the first round of the ladies singles of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday.
Sania Mirza will kick off her Australian Open campaign with a first round match against Marta Domachowska of Poland and might run into 10th seed Nadia Petrova if she clears the hurdle in the first Grand Slam of the year. Ranked a lowly 107th after her long injury layoff, Sania would take on world number 61 Domachowska hoping to get past the player who beat her in their only previous meeting in a hard-court tournament back in 2003.
The defending champions beat Brazil 2-0 in the final.
Brazil's Olympic women's football team was showered with joyous attention until their heart-breaking semi-final elimination on Tuesday which brought forward a key question: Was the interest the start of something big or another false dawn?
World number three Maria Sharapova's participation in next month's Beijing Olympics hinges on a scan on her right shoulder later on Thursday.
Sania Mirza lost in the first round of her doubles match on Wednesday.
Fourth seed Maria Kirilenko overcame stiff second set resistance before prevailing over Ekaterina Ivanova to move into the pre-quarter-finals of the WTA Sunfeat Open.
United States retained the Olympic gold medal in women's soccer on Thursday with a 1-0 extra-time win over Brazil, who fell at the last hurdle for the third major competition in a row.
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Sania Mirza was leading 6-1, 2-0 when Alexandra Stevenson retired with a right shoulder strain.
Third seed Marta Marrero and fourth seed Arantxa Parra Santonja were knocked out in the quarter-final of the Tashkent Open.
They were beaten in straight sets by Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Gisela Dulko of Argentina.
They were beaten by the top-seeded pair of Maria Elena Camerin and Gisela Dulko.
The Indian ace beat Flavia Pennetta 6-2, 7-6(5) at the Open Gaz de France in Paris
The Hyderabad lass was beaten by Poland's Marta Domachowska in the ITF Grade 1 tournament in Belgium.
The Indian ace and partner Katarina Kachlikova of Solvakia lost in the second round of the doubles event.
The Vietnam GM beat Chinese GM Zhang Peng Xiang in the eighth round in the Commonwealth chess championship.
Millman, ranked 80 places above world number 14 Pouille, needed 73 minutes to clinch a 6-3, 6-4 victory and the best win of his career by ranking position.
The Spanish teenager reached the second round of the Estoril Open even as second seed Nicolas Massu of Chile bowed out.
Seventh-seeded Briton Tim Henman was a surprise loser, however, as he went out 7-6 2-6 7-6 to world number 64 Juergen Melzer at the Nasdaq-100 Open.
Brazilian fans turned on the men's soccer team after a 0-0 draw with Iraq on Sunday that left them in serious danger of exiting at the first stage of the Olympics.
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IMAGES from Day 5 of the 2020 US Open in New York on Friday.
Images from matches played on Day 5 at the Australian Open in Melbourne Park on Friday
Images from Day 7 of the 2021 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Mbappe followed up a domestic treble with Paris St Germain with a string of impressive performances in France's World Cup winning campaign.
Brazil's Cristiane scored a hat-trick as the former finalists sealed a superb 3-0 victory over women's World Cup debutants Jamaica on Sunday to kick off their campaign in style.
Ferrer, 37, announced earlier in the year he would end his 19-year career at the Madrid Open and prolonged his time on court by a day by beating Roberto Bautista Agut on Tuesday, but was easily overpowered by world number four Zverev.
